Category: Player Corner

Sept. 3: These are uncertain times for Indian hockey. Directionless and captainless, the country’s national game is doddering on choppy waters. Missing the Beijing Olympics is now history. It’s time to start the preparations for ...

Dilip Tirkey has earned many laurels on the ground and equally many accolades outside the sporting fields. The latest one is not only rare but also sweeter. National Institute of Technology (NIT), an institution of ...

Amardeep Ekka, a promising midfielder, is another gem from Sundargarh. The young lad stuck limelight at the national level recently, being part of the Junior Asia Cup gold winners. A product of famed Panposh Hockey ...

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 ...