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Star studded IOCL look to retain crown India’s elite hockey players, including India captain Rajpal Singh, will be in action when the Petroleum Sports Promotion Board Inter-unit hockey tournament kicks off at the Karnataka State ...

WSH may be a big boon for players By MM Somaya In Indian hockey, every little victory of the national team is savoured and cherished. Over the past few months, in fleeting spells THE team ...

Great for the game World Series Hockey (WSH) – an Indian hockey league along the lines of cricket’s highly successful Indian Premier League (IPL) – is an excellent idea. Slated to begin this year, the ...

Distracting and elitist ploy Jay Kumar A false sense of euphoria has set in with the launch of the WSH, a joint initiative of the derecognised Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) and Nimbus Sport. This will ...

WSH an unofficial league, says FIH V Narayan Swamy, TNN BANGALORE: The World Series Hockey and the riches that it promises hasn’t impressed International Hockey Federation (FIH). The Lausanne-based world body’s refrain is that it ...

Renowned hockey players to play in tourney at BHU VARANASI: Several renowned hockey players would take part in the week-long East Zone Inter University Hockey (Men) Tournament starting from Friday (December 31) at the Banaras ...

Mumbai varsity to organise inter-University hockey meet in January The All-India Inter-University Hockey Tournament for men will be held from January 10-16, 2011 in Mumbai. Bombay University is organising the event, featuring 16 zonal qualifiers ...

Windfall for Indian hockey Never mind all the false dawns preceding this one, but the indefatigable goodwill for hockey in India means there will be no dearth of attempts to revive a sport that fell ...

Mediocrity on the field, shame off it Vaibhav Sharma Tribune News Service It is hard to get to the top and even harder to stay there. But the toughest job of all is to claw ...

Player dies Rourkela: A hockey player fell ill and died while he was playing a rural hockey tournament, at Kinjirikela, in Sundargarh district, in Orissa. Prasant Dungdung (32), representing Bargaon club, collapsed in the field ...