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Saturday, September 13, 2003
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Everything has changed, yet the spirit remainsFrom rickety old typewriters to laptops, sports reporting in The Hindu has travelled some distance, writes K. Sundar Rajan. 
An enduring love affair with sportsAPART from being the pioneer in designing and developing the concept of the sports page, The Hindu also played a consistent and committed role as a promoter of sports, long before the theme of sponsorship acquired its present-day ... A story of consistent growth FROM the early days of sports coverage when a solitary inspired gentleman — the late Murugesa Mudaliar — did a fair imitation of Lance Armstrong on a daily basis to report on sports activities in Madras, The Hindu's sports ... 
Priestley on SobersFrom time to time, several great literary figures have turned their attention to sports, if only briefly. The celebrated English essayist, J. B. Priestley, was one of them. One of his finest essays that touched upon sport — a cricketer, to ... THE CHANGING FACE OF SPORTSWRITING 
So near, yet so farTHE other day, driving along the Marina, on a whim I turned into Pycrofts road and parked in front of a cricket ground that was no longer a ground where any sane person would consider playing any sport. A once-picturesque ground that is so much ... 
The first ever Tied Test -- Fingleton reportsThe late Jack Fingleton was one of the most widely admired contributors to the sports pages of The Hindu for three decades. During the first England-Australia series immediately after the end of the Second World War, Fingleton contacted Sir Ra ghunath Paranjpye, then the Indian High Commissioner in Canberra, and enquired if The Hindu would be interested in carrying his reports of the Tests. The Editor of the paper immediately cabled Fingleton to say yes. And there began a long assoc iation. The following are excerpts from Fingleton's report of the first ever Tied Test in Brisbane in December 1960.
Excerpts from The Hindu reports of significant sports events.
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