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VOL.28 :: NO.13 :: Mar. 26 - Apr. 01, 2005
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REFEREEING is often the most thankless and loneliest job in football. A referee rarely gets noticed for good work but gets all the brickbats for the mistakes, which at times are magnified to scandalous proportions. Not that all those who take to ...
Robot `n' magician combo - PricelessGlenn McGrath and Shane Warne have already established themselves as the greatest pace-spin pair of all-time, with 835 wickets between them in 87 Tests, writes SANJAY RAJAN.
Aussies pack a wallopTHE five-zero Oz wash in the one-dayers further demoralised the Black Caps, already low because of a desperate injury situation, ahead of the first Test in Christchurch.
Unflagging focus on the specificsIF VOLTAIRE was right when he wrote that God was on the side of the big battalions, then India's millions would ensure its permanent position as leader in world cricket rankings.
India Vs Pakistan THE last thing that Steve Bucknor
KAMRAN AKMAL loves taking the fight to the opposition. He has fast hands and a mind that ticks. In Mohali, the young man from Lahore took a significant step in his cricketing journey.
ASIM KAMAL sprinted out of the Eden Gardens entrance and even as he was boarding the team bus, a goodly gathering of enthusiasts cheered him on. The Pakistani smiled.
Wonderful festive vibrancyIndia's bottom-up cricket culture is being absorbed by the top-down celebrity culture. With the proliferation of TV, what seems to count more is the fame of the face, not what the face is famous for, writes MIKE MARQUSEE.
OVER the last few weeks the parlous state of the game has been exposed.
Pakistan & the Mohinder factorBANGALORE is here and Pensioner's `Paradise Regained' it simply has to be for Sourav's India. Hopefully the Men In Blue, by now, have come out of the stupor into which they lapsed, as a team, on the crucial final day of the Mohali Test. Actually, ...
Unfortunate aspect of the gameTHE recent controversy over the beamers delivered by Brett Lee in the one-day series against New Zealand once again placed violent bowling back on the agenda.
THE new avtar of Lakshmipathy Balaji combining with Irfan Pathan and Zaheer Khan gradually presents a picture of an attacking Indian team.
GARRY KASPAROV: QUITS Competitive ChessGARRY KASPAROV made the moves only he could make. Calculated, precise, timely and above all, effective. After dominating the chess world for just over two decades, the Russian made his last move in professional chess. He decided it was time to move on. KASPAROV FACTFILE * Learnt to play chess at the age of five from father, who died two years later. * At 12, legally changed name from Gari Weinstien to Garry Kasparov, a Russian version of Kasparian, mother's maiden name. * In the Young Pioneers event at ... Shifting focus METAPHORICALLY, Garry Kasparov kept raising the bar in the chess world. There will never be another like him SO Garry Kasparov will never play another game of competitive chess again. Imagine that. He may have got a bit tired of chess — Anand A COUPLE of days after Garry Kasparov announced his retirement, Viswanathan Anand, who is set to take over from him as the World No. 1, spoke to The Sportstar over telephone from his home in Spain about his great rival. "Garry has left a ...
IS an Olympic Games silver lesser in value compared to an Asian Games gold? Common sense tells you, it cannot be.
Harrington makes historyST. PADDY'S DAY came four days early for Padraig Harrington. The Irishman won his first PGA Tour title at Palm Beach Gardens in Florida when Vijay Singh unexpectedly missed a 2 1/2-foot par putt on the second hole of a playoff. Just like that, a ... 
Batistuta calls it a dayARGENTINA`S record goalscorer Gabriel Batistuta has decided to quit soccer at the age of 36. ``I`m announcing my definitive retirement from football and I thank everyone who has helped make my career so successful,'' said the former ...
Chris Shutt opens a new vistaWHEN he drove into the Pontins Holiday Resort in Prestatyn, North Wales late on the night of March 7, Mike Russell had justifiable doubts of his inability to retain his world professional title.
What's cooking Sohail?"IT is not true." This is how Pakistani's hockey icon, Sohail Abbas, reacted when reports surfaced that he is contemplating a comeback amidst conflicting statements on his retirement. If there is a hockey debate raging in Pakistan almost matching ... 
FIFA to appoint anti-racism ambassadorsWORLD soccer's governing body FIFA is planning to create a group of anti-racism ambassadors to tackle discrimination in the game. Headed by France and Arsenal striker Thierry Henry, the group will consist of leading players and coaches from ... Kuerten splits with his coach Passos THREE-TIME French Open champion Gustavo Kuerten and Larri Passos, his coach for the past 15 years, have parted company, the two said in a statement. The 27-year-old Kuerten, better known by his nickname Guga, thanked Passos for ``15 years of ...
A moment to savour for PakistanWHAT prompted the Indian Hockey Federation to field a weak team without the six established players for the UBL under-21 four-nation tournament in Lahore is difficult to comprehend.
WITH their skates as brushes, and the ice as their canvas, and their imagination as paints, they drew gliding masterpieces of captivating beauty.
RECENTLY I watched an excruciatingly boring London derby at Craven Cottage, on the banks of the Thames, between Fulham and Charlton Athletic;
Beckham launches academyENGLAND captain David Beckham launched his own football academy in London but stressed it was about children enjoying themselves and not just about producing future stars. The David Beckham Academy will open on the Greenwich Peninsula in East ... EURO FLAVOUR 
Albiol back in actionSCORING a goal against Real Madrid is something that would make most teenage football players happy but it meant so much more to Getafe's Raul Albiol (right in pic). His goal, the opener in Getafe's stunning 2-1 defeat of the Spanish giants, ... EURO FLAVOUR 
Kuijt to stay with FeyenoordKUIJT (left in pic), the Dutch league's leading scorer is to stay with Feyenoord through 2009. Financial details of the two-year contract extension were not released. The 24-year-old Netherlands international has scored 22 goals this season for ...
QUIZ CORNER/V. V. RAMANAN3. Who was Kobe Bryant first drafted by before being traded on draft day to the Los Angeles Lakers? 4. In golf, if mashie niblick is a seven iron, what is a spoon? 5. Micky Mantle and Mark McGwire are legends of which ball-game? 6. In ...
THE mile has been run under four minutes hundreds of times since the barrier was first broken 51 years ago.
Kaneria's heroicsSir, — Pakistan, a predominantly batting side, played safe and ensured a draw in the first Test against India. Danish Kaneria was the hero for Pakistan, which did very little in other departments of the game, except the match saving second ...
JUICY QUOTES-PAUL FEINI just hate to lose. When I am on the court, it is like my life depends on it. — Serena Williams, on her fierce competitiveness, after she won the Australian Open for her seventh Grand Slam title. Once you have bad ... |
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