Category: Player Corner

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 ...

Cutting across their political labels, five Members of Orissa legislative Assembly extended their moral support to Sundargh people who are spearheading a movement to save the honour of their legendary son Dilip Tirkey. These MLAs ...

Arjuna award winner and former Olympian Michael Kindo came out openly in support of Indian Captain Dilip Tirkey, whose integrity was questioned by an Orissa Hockey Association official. Rourkela based Michael Kindo says that the ...

Dilip Tirkey’s home Sundargarh will witness first ever hockey related District bandh on Wednesday. Agitated over the insane remarks of an Orissa State Hockey Association official, about 10,000 players and hockey fans of Sundargarh district ...

Some people never improve. And we have another one in the inglorious list. He first tried to spoil the team that someone else painstakingly developed over sweat and toil. And when the team does reasonably ...

A day in the last week was well spent. Olympian MK Kaushik, who is now Deputy Director (Sports) with Haryana Government, invited me to witness some of the hockey centres being developed by his department. ...

Chennai, Sept. 3: Asghar Ali, Akbar Ali, Asif Ali and Arif Ali had played three Asian Games and two Asia Cups together. It’s just a bland statistic, but it’s not so when it’s revealed that ...

Olympian MP Ganesh’s new outfit, Synergy Sports Club, wins its first match in the Division C league match of the KS Hockey League, Bangalore. Retired from the services recently, Ganesh formed the new team using ...