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VOL.26 :: NO.31 :: Aug 02 - 08, 2003
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BANGLADESH created history at Darwin last fortnight. For never before in Test cricket history had a team been available at such attractive odds in a one-on-one contest.
Beckham and Kournikova: Celebs like no otherMore than in any other era in the past, we are now witness to an age, in sport as much as in entertainment, where it is no longer a question of who's great and who's not. It is merely a question of who's hot and who's not. And David Beckham is hot. So indeed is Anna Kournikova, writes NIRMAL SHEKAR.
THE signs are good for domestic cricket and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is indeed moving in the right direction.
AMONG developments lately to hit world cricket, none is more noticeable than the sheer quantity of matches.
The not so bold & beautifulIS Sunil Gavaskar not on recent espnstar record as commentating, when Sachin passed his 31st Test hundred, that the Bonzer Fellow could finish with 50 such tons for India?
THIS one is for Sachin Tendulkar, as the Michael Schumacher of Indian Cricket, to sort out.
IT WAS news to Ehsan Mani, the ICC President, that Sachin Tendulkar, like him, signs his cheques with the left-hand.
The first choice in any Australian teamTHE longest serving member of the Australian cricket team is also the least known. He has been saving and making careers for Australia since 1984, yet is known to only a few cricket fanatics.
One of the saddest aspects of English cricket in the last 20 years is that the old and wise are ignored.
Grand old man's regretGREG NORMAN, 48, one of the grand old men of golf, returned to the scene of his 1993 British Open triumph to bemoan the lack of characters in the modern game. The Australian has undergone hip, shoulder and back surgeries through the strain of ... 
No plans to retireREACTING sharply to a report in a vernacular daily, the captain of the Indian hockey team, Dhanraj Pillay, categorically denied any plan of retirement from hockey after the Athens Olympics. While interacting with mediapersons, the captain said ...
Master of the human mindIT is such a pleasure meeting Dr. Sandy Gordon from the University of Western Australia. A sports psychologist from this renowned school of learning, Dr. Gordon has worked with the Australian and Indian cricket teams in the 1999 and 2003 World Cups.
THE state of affairs in Indian wrestling may not be pleasant but there is hardly a reason to believe that things would not improve in the future.
Australia hailed Cathy Freeman as one of the country's all-time great athletes as its champion announced she was hanging up her running spikes. She couldn't top Sydney highs Cathy Freeman says she never recovered from the "traumatic" experience of living up to Australia's expectations at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Freeman, 30, retired from athletics, less than three years after she lit the flame in Sydney and went on ... 
Two magic momentsCathy Freeman seemed bewildered, barely able to fathom that almost two decades of training and pain had given her the triumph of her life. Looking down at her palms, she took a deep gulp to help cool the lactic acid that had built up in her ... Highlights 1973: Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman is born on February 16 in Mackay, Queensland. She is the daughter of former Aussie Rules footballer Norman and wife Cecilia. She is the third of five children. 1978: Father Norman leaves the ...
Every sportswriter worth his (or her) wheezing laptop has what we like to call an "I was there" list.
The long wait is overTHE night was young. The Mumbai summer was at its peak. The cooled air inside former National `A' chess champion International Master (IM) P. Konguvel's room at Hotel Tulip Star, overlooking the lovely Juhu Beach, was soothing.
A grand birthday presentSANDIPAN CHANDA turns 20 on August 13. It's probably going to be his happiest birthday ever. But he had no idea it would be so when he went to Spain in June in search of that one more norm that would make him India's ninth Grandmaster. Somehow ...
Indian boys do their country proudTAKING an Indian team to the summit of any World-level competition or even close to the summit of the World championships in any Olympic sport is a difficult proposition. WORLD YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP 
`Winningest' coachTHE India Youth team's coach for the World championship, G. E. Sridharan
IT was an event which, besides throwing up the usual controversies, also rung in several new changes in the ring.
Lop-sided field dilutes interestA LOP-SIDED field in the five-nation Middle Asian Zone qualifying tournament for the Asian Basketball Confederation championship had made sure that India and Uzbekistan would be the two qualifiers.
Barrichello keeps his cool amid the madnessRubens Barrichello, whose first Formula One victory came after an unemployed Frenchman made a one-man track protest at Hockenheim three years ago, secured his sixth when he overcame the chaos and confusion that followed another unscheduled, and dangerous, human intervention in the British Grand Prix. 
Huge cloud over future of race at SilverstoneThe future of the British Grand Prix, at Silverstone, was thrown into serious doubt again after a 56-year-old Irishman, dressed in a green kilt and waving religious protests written on cardboard, interrupted the race by cavorting on Hangar ...
GOING by his performance in the first two rounds of the 2003 Asia Pacific Rally Championship for cars, it would not come as a surprise if Fumio Nutahara emerges a strong contender for the crown.
Maharashtra to the foreA minor change in the age groupings left the swimming events of the 20th sub-junior National aquatic championships bereft of any records. The international swimming body, FINA, had revised the groupings a few seasons ago for the continental and ...
The event lacked qualityTo say that the National Circuit athletics meet in Chennai was a fiasco would be an understatement. The event was dull, colourless and lacked competitive spirit and enthusiasm of the participants. NATIONAL CIRCUIT, BANGALORE LEG 
Rakesh takes the spotlightIT was a low key performance in the National Circuit meet in Bangalore. Owing to intermittent rain, the organisers, the Bangalore Rural District Amateur Athletic Association, had to conduct a few events under the floodlights. In fact, the show ... Stands out for various reasons IT is the first of its kind — a book on football in India. Stands out for various reasons IT is the first of its kind — a book on football in India.
ENGLAND should consider themselves lucky to have escaped with a 2-1 win against Slovakia at Middlesbrough, in a European Championship qualifier.
Andre AgassiGAME, scent and match? Andre Agassi will help Aramis launch a new fragrance, with the slogan — "Life. It's a Great Game." The new ad campaign will begin in September, and the men's fragrance will go on sale nationwide in October. Aramis is ... 
Oliver KahnGERMAN goalkeeper Oliver Kahn pleaded with journalists for more respect after another day of front-page headlines over his private life in the country's biggest-selling newspaper. "I think we should treat each other again with more respect and ...
Request for extra helpJUAN PABLO MONTOYA has asked his Williams team for some extra help to enable him to turn the tables on team-mate Ralf Schumacher. The Colombian wants to re-establish himself as Williams' main contender. Montoya wanted more assistance in getting ... Fisichella's next move ITALIAN Giancarlo Fisichella is talking to Sauber about a possible move from Jordan for 2004, the Swiss team confirmed. A Sauber spokesman said at the British Grand Prix that Fisichella visited the Formula One team's factory at Hinwil as part of ...
Mike TysonFORMER World heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson's psychiatrist has sued him for allegedly failing to pay 29,000 dollars in therapy bills, court documents showed. Analyst Mitchell Gibson alleges that Tyson failed to stump up for his costly ... Dennis Rodman RETIRED basketball star Dennis Rodman has announced he wants to return to the NBA at the age of 42, saying he has been training hard during the past four months as he prepared for a comeback. The five-time NBA champion, known for his love of ...
Thorpe attacks FINAIAN THORPE has launched another attack on swimming's world governing body, FINA, accusing it of not doing enough in the war against drugs. The multiple World record holder told Australia's Channel Seven that he suspects the recent World ... |
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