After the incidents and the controversy of the past week in cricket, can we stop referring to cricket as a gentleman’s game?
You wonder why it was ever called a gentleman’s game with all the incidents of sledging, match-fixing, and other controversies that we’ve seen over the last few years. Cricket has been about winning [...]
This post will make no sense to people who don’t follow college football (American version).
For the second year running, I switched on my computer in the morning to find that Ohio State was trailing an SEC opponent in the BCS national championship game. They eventually lost after making tons of personal fouls and mistakes [...]
I just had to link to Jaya Uttamchandani’s opinion piece on The Hoot Breaking News!. An excerpt:
With that said, let’s not forget Shah Rukh Khan. And yes, we are still taking cricket and we are still talking NEWS. First a cameraman and Kaif had a tiff while the cricketer had gone to watch Shah Rukh’s [...]
Via Arseblog, the best blog about Arsenal, I read about Ian Griffin, who discovered an asteroid in orbit between Mars and Jupiter, petitioned the IAU (International Astronomical Union) to name it after Arsene Wenger. From his announcement:
On November 21st 2007, the International Astronomical Union announced that an asteroid I discovered when working as an astronomer [...]
This falls into the ICBTIDBATE[1] category.
Viswanathan Anand won the World championship in chess and received a welcome that he admitted overwhelmed him.
The popularity of chess in India, especially among the younger generation is because of Anand. I think because he’s succeeded and has been so consistent over the years, we’ve had kids taking [...]
India 7 - Korea 2 tells you the story of the game better than anything I could write, but that won’t stop me. If you want a preliminary report, read these reports.
I didn’t get to watch the full match but from what the commentators were saying this was one of India’s best performances for [...]
Seriously, you could not make this up (via NDTV):
In a baffling move the Indian Hockey Federation or the IHF has announced an incentive cum penalty scheme for the Indian team.
The IHF will give Rs 1000 to the team for every goal scored by the Indians in the Asia Cup, but the catch is that the [...]
In a shocking upset, India beat Syria 1-0 to win the Nehru Cup, a football tournament that was revived this year after a long hiatus.
The final with Syria was always going to be a difficult match for India and I don’t think most people expected us to win. India had lost to Syria in [...]
From a story by The Guardian:
Sevilla’s international left-back Antonio Puerta died yesterday afternoon at the age of 22, after suffering a heart attack during his side’s victory over Getafe on Saturday night.
Puerta, who had twice before been forced to pull out of matches after suffering dizzy spells, was pronounced dead at 1.30pm Spanish time and [...]
A superb column on the Arseblog, the best blog about all things Arsenal. Excerpt:
What started me thinking about what it is to be a fan is, a fortnight ago today, my friend and colleague Andy passed away. Let me tell you about Andy. I can’t tell you the last time he actually went down to [...]
