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Sack the players, thunders Pargat Singh Pargat Singh is brutally frank. He wants the five players – Adrian D’Souza, Arjun Hallappa, Sandeep, Sardar and Prabhjot – who left the national camp for a day to ...

Is this a sign of another player-establishment row? Will it be a throwback to the 2010 pay row which rocked Indian hockey and threatened the country’s participation in the World Cup? There are no ostensible ...

Top Indian players endorse World Series Hockey Sudheendra Tripathi, TNN MUMBAI: Three million dollars in the form of prize money. Eight franchisees – a pool of 176 players – and a total investment of around ...

Maken issues ultimatum to HI, IHF to merge by July 25 NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday issued an ultimatum to Hockey India and Indian Hockey Federation to merge by July 25, failing which the ...

Finding a new foothold SREEDUTTA CHIDANANDA NEW CROP: Members of the Indian hockey team going through selection trials during the National hockey camp, at the Sports Authority of India in Bangalore. Photo: Murali Kumar K. ...

NIS Patiala and SAI to part ways New Delhi: Embarrassed over the recent doping scandals and the hockey impasse, the government on Wednesday decided to take some strong measures to tackle the vexed issues. Sports ...

‘Need specialist coaches’ The Indian hockey team’s national camp chief co-ordinator and assistant coach SS Grewal on Monday stressed the need to have specialist coaches of foreign origin, saying it would prove beneficial to both ...

Memories of Madras – A fan called Balaji and other stories PRINCE FREDERICK The Hindu Archives The Madras team of the mid-1950s. Former national hockey player Muneer Sait recalls the glorious days of the game ...

SAI to rope in foreign experts for hockey With qualifying for July 18: With qualifying for the London Olympics being a top priority for Indian hockey, the sports ministry’s ambitious ‘Operation Excellence London 2012’ (Opex) ...

What next after the merger flop show? S. THYAGARAJAN The efforts at unifying the two hockey factions have flopped. This is not surprising. What surprised many was the optimism generated on this count. Why the ...