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VOL.26 :: NO.22 :: May 31 - June 06, 2003
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From the publishers of THE HINDU VOL.26 :: NO.22 :: May 31 - June 06, 2003 |
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Even as the dust settles down on the seventh edition of the National football league, the clubs in Goa and Bengal have begun planning their prized recruits for the next season in November.
The accidental chucker must be helpedBowlers who are reported are given the chance to revise their action under the guidance of their own board, assisted by a variety of experts. At this stage they can continue to play international cricket. If they are challenged a second time, they may have to spend a year out of the game while they attempt to correct their action, writes TED CORBETT.
LAURENT BLANC and Abdelatif Benazzi, who both ended their careers recently, symbolised a golden era for French sport.
Making rapid stridesIT is truly amazing to note that despite the absence of any methodical coaching system in place, chess players from Delhi are making news. After the Asian junior girls champion Tania Sachdev and the Asian under-10 winner Parimarjan Negi, it is now the turn of seven-year-old Sahaj Grover to swim against the current.
"ATTACK", we used to be told, "is the best form of defence." Then, in soccer, came the 1925 change in the offside law, the birth of the Third Back Game at Arsenal under Herbert Chapman, and the emphasis on counter attack.
IT was a fiesta laced with fervour, feeling and fantasy, with a generous measure of nostalgia thrown in when the first awards event of the Hero Indian Sports Academy was launched in New Delhi. Touted as the Indian version of the more famous ...
Gabriel BatistutaArgentina striker Gabriel Batistuta has discarded the possibility of making an international comeback. "My goodbye to the national team is forever and it makes me want to cry when I say it, because it represented a great deal in my sporting ...
The symbol of a nation's futureHE could have been just another youth among the hundreds of thousands brought from Zimbabwe's countryside to Harare by urban drift. Instead, Tatenda Taibu is Zimbabwe's 20-year-old vice-captain for the England tour, batsman-wicketkeeper and symbol of his country's future.
Asia is the new hotbed of tennis.
Deja Guga?A year after hip surgery took him off the tour and out of the Top 20, Gustavo Kuerten has made a convincing comeback. Now his sights are set on his greatest love, Roland Garros. By ADAM SACHS.
Thailand's best player ever has started a full-fledged tennis boom at home.
Playing tennis only gets better as time goes on. By MARTINA NAVRATILOVA.
Formula One: Button's star sticks to upward trackA fire-defying winner and a breathtaking scrap for second place: small wonder that most of the attention at the A1-Ring was focused on the podium-fillers. But while the top three in the Austrian Grand Prix headed for the Champagne ceremony, the ...
YOU no more expect the Ugly Aussie to be apologetic about sledging than you expect Preity Zinta to stop talking and start acting!
Casey's game plan pays off Paul Casey is the boldest of golfers and he stayed with the game he knows best in the final round of the last Benson & Hedges International Open. Having started the day alongside Padraig Harrington, this former winner of two English Amateur ...
WHEN Luke Wilson first read the Royal Tenenbaums, the 2002 Oscar-nominated script cowritten by his brother Owen, and learned that his character, Richie Tenenbaum, was a tennis-star flame-out, memories came flowing back from his childhood days in ...
`Talentwise Indians are as good as any'Indian boxers ought to take more punches than they land. That is the prescription a former Italian international boxer has to ensure a healthy growth for country's amateur boxing. Fabrizio Petroni knows his onions.
Formula One's new scoring system prevented Ferrari's Michael Schumacher from taking the lead in the championship for the first time this season in Austria. The five-times World champion would have moved two points clear of McLaren's Kimi ...
Cricketers have a responsibility towards the fans, especially the young ones. They not only have to perform well, but also need to be sending across the right message.
In an extraordinary season we miss an extraordinary manIt is that extraordinary tennis time when spring meshes into summer, when the clay is the colour of blood that seemingly must be spilt to win there and grass is the colour of envy felt most keenly by those who have never owned a volley. 
The Long GoodbyeMichael Chang once had the best set of wheels in tennis. Chugging along on his farewell tour, he ponders where they took him, and how and why they fell off. By JOEL DRUCKER.
Damaged seal caused pitstop fireA damaged seal on Michael Schumacher's fuel rig was to blame for a pitstop fire at the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix, Ferrari said.
This American takes the hard road to success.
Schumacher turns last year's jeers into cheersFerrari's world champion Michael Schumacher turned last year's jeers into cheers with a memorable victory in what may have been Austria's Formula One farewell.
UNDOUBTEDLY fielding standards have improved over the last 30 years, but perhaps not by as much as people think.
Other sports can learn from cricket's unfortunate experience — Malcolm SpeedMalcolm Speed told an international sports convention in Madrid that cricket had been brought to its knees by the match-fixing crisis which hit the headlines in 2000. 
Bergkamp wants to continue with ArsenalDennis Bergkamp has urged Arsenal to allow him to see out the end of his career with a final season at Highbury. Bergkamp's contract expires at the end of this season and speculation is rife that the club could at best ask him to take a pay cut ...
`A unique player in every way'Tall and heavily-built Ernest Raymond Herbert Toshack, who passed away on May 11, was quite a popular cricketer down under and beyond. Colleagues christened him "Black Prince" and "film star."
A behind-the-scenes tour of TV's wettest commercial.
Sir, — The Star TV coverage of the McGrath incident is a clear indication of the Australian's bad behaviour while losing a game. The intention of McGrath was no doubt aimed at disturbing the concentration of Sarwan with a view of getting ...
Indian Airlines triumphsINDIAN AIRLINES won the 41st Bombay Gold Cup hockey championship by doing more than just scoring one more goal than its rivals. It was about preparing the best line-up in the country to perform to potential, about using bench strength and rules ... Changing traditional British attitudes HE loves to shop, looks good in a sarong and spends almost as much time at the hairdresser's as he does on the sports field.
AS Australia ruthlessly trounced the West Indies in each of the first three Tests in the series that ended, Brian Lara might have wondered what he'd got himself into by taking up the captaincy once more.
IT was only in the new millennium that cricket's law pertaining to `chucking' finally defined a fair delivery. Until then, it had only outlined a throw.
Dennis Lillee was shocked and for a good reason too. He had just seen a photograph where his pace bowling partner of old was seen as chucking.
The Australian `dead rubber syndrome' continued with the team's loss to West Indies in the final Test of the four-match series.
RonaldinhoBrazilian World Cup winner Ronaldinho is unsure whether he wants to remain a Paris Saint-Germain player next season, a news report said. "I honestly don't know where I'll be," the 23-year-old was quoted as saying in the French daily Le ...
Kasparov pockets his fifth OscarTHE announcement of his successful nomination for the Chess Oscar award for the best player of 2002 came more like a belated birthday gift for the undisputed numero uno Garry Kasparov. 
A novel idea, but a lopsided contestIT started as a novel idea and ended as a lopsided contest. But it will not stop Spanish organisers from thinking in developing newer ideas to popularise chess in their region in the near future.
Michael JordanBasketball star Michael Jordan said he was shocked by the NBA Wizards' decision not to bring him back as President of Player Operations and accused the owners of being callous.
1 Round in which Anna Kournikova was picked by the Kansas City Explorers in the World Team Tennis draft. 2 Players, both Belgians, who have beaten Serena Williams in the last five months (at press time); Kim Clijsters and Justine ... King of Qualies JACK BRASINGTON has an excellent record at Grand Slam events. What's that? You've never heard of him? Guess you don't know Jack. Brasington, 26, has made it through the last five Grand Slam qualifying tournaments he's played — that's 15 ...
Zico hits out at the new proposalJapan coach Zico has called a proposal to expand the 2006 World Cup finals to 36 teams "ridiculous," arguing that the enlargement could destroy the tournament's credibility. The Brazilian, who played in three World Cups, warned that an expanded ... Mark Webber to stay with Jaguar Racing Mark Webber has extended his contract at Jaguar Racing for another two years until the end of 2005. The 26-year-old Australian delighted his team bosses when his seventh place in the Spanish Grand Prix earned the team its first points of the ...
IF there's one word to describe Oracene Price, it's cool. She not only coaches her daughters Venus and Serena Williams but also sits in the stands with class and composure as they compete against each other for Grand Slam titles. And she even ...
Olympic champion runner Gabriela Szabo said in an interview that she will not retire because it would only encourage suspicions that she is doping herself.
If Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf team up to play mixed doubles at Roland Garros, will they win? |
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