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The talent pool is shrinking Unlike my days where schools and colleges were the nurseries, these days the Sports Authority of India and academies nurture the sport. Small wonder the talent base has shrunk. There ...

Where has all the love for our national game gone? I still remember the days when we used to play. The stadiums used to be jam-packed, like we see in cricket today. We felt proud ...

Rasquinha asks to manage hockey professionally The other day I heard FIH vice-president Antonio von Ondarza commenting that “hockey is not a professional sport” and that “nowhere in the world a hockey player plays for ...

The rot starts at the top: Pargat Singh For a game like hockey to prosper in our country, the most important thing is parental guidance, a healing touch. The administrators should not treat players like ...

All-rounders can help India: Carvalho There is no such thing as old style and new style in hockey. The basics have remained the same; what’s changed is the game’s pace and the importance on fitness. ...

Pillay bats for hockey league in India Charity begins at home. At least this is what the Germans and Dutch believe. With their domestic structure banking on the time-tested club culture, the Europeans have managed ...

Mattoo relieved hockey row over By Tushar Bhaduri in New Delhi INDIAN Olympic Association ( IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi and former captain Dhanraj Pillay might have got all the credit for resolving the pay dispute ...

Focus shifts to turf There was renewed vigour and a spring in the steps as the 22 senior hockey probables stepped on the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex hockey turf for the first day of practice ...

Maharashtra affiliation issue gets murkier Just when Hockey India (HI) has warded off one crisis, another looms large for the body, which goes to polls on Feb. 7. HI’s affiliation process and the alleged interference ...

Pushed to a corner K Arumugam Hockey is an invisible sport. Consider this. The Indian players revolted recently. What they wanted was match fee or reward for playing 47 matches last year, which included winning ...