Category: Player Corner

Tribal star Ignace Tirkey has again been ignored by the paper conscious, bureaucrats-driven Arjuna Award selection process. Ignace has applied for the award this year also, but striker Prabhjot Singh has been preferred by the ...

Belsajar Horo, 18, joins the illustrious list of hockey stars to come from the tribal district of Sundargarh, Orissa. A find of the Sports Authority of India’ s Special Area Game Centre, Sundargarh, has earned ...

Tuesday, June 24, 2008: President, Surjit Hockey Society president Ajeet Singh Pannu, IAS, Deputy Commissiioner, Jalandhar and Secretary Iqbal Singh Sandhu, PCS, Sub Divisional Magistrate, Gurdaspur and other members of the Surjit Hockey Society have ...

Couple of days before the auction of their jerseys, the hockey trio was in a fix whether it would able to attract a decent number of bidders and could fetch substantiate amount to raise the ...

Two months ago we saw Auction of cricket players under the glare of media for the Indian Premier League (Cricket). Now it seems the turn of hockey, but not of auctioning the players variety but ...

This month (May 2008) Hero SV Sunil He was not a star in the sense that his exploits don’t hog the limelight nor was he so spectacular that it catches the eyes. But SV Sunil, ...

One of Sundargarh’s superb sons Ignace Tirkey makes a personal milestone, which needs wide celebration, but goes off silently. Hockey, many claim silently, is an illiterate’s game, though momentarily it appears an uncharitable comment. At ...

Many claim, erroneously of course, hockey is a not a statistical oriented sports. But, it has lot to offer only if one has an eye for it. One thing we often miss is the tireless ...

This Month (April 2008) Hero Rani Devi This Month Hero is a heroine. And that is, fittingly, Rani — which in many Indian languages means Queen. The four lettered girl, a ninth standard student, surprised ...

Sundargarh based Dilip Tirkey Fans Club organized a massive rally at Sundargarh today (Monday) to mark their anger against the damaging remarks made by the Orissa Hockey Association Secretary, Pratap Satpathy. Satpathy has recently blamed ...