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VOL.28 :: NO.03 :: Jan. 15 - 21 2005
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From the publishers of THE HINDU VOL.28 :: NO.03 :: Jan. 15 - 21 2005 |
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INDIAN hockey is set to court good times. The mood of depression is melting, giving way to optimism.
Many dreams will die and some liveSomeone will twist an ankle, fall to the heat, double fault at match point, be rude to an opponent, hit a shot we promise ourselves cannot exist. Eventually 127 dreams will die and one live, and the history book on the year will have its first inscriptions, writes ROHIT BRIJNATH. 
Henin out of the OpenDEFENDING Australian Open champion Justine Henin-Hardenne said a right knee injury has forced her to withdraw from the first Grand Slam of the year and keep her on the sidelines for four to six weeks. "It is disappointing because I was so ...
10 ways to fire up tennisENTHRALLING rivalries and charismatic characters make tennis boom, but the sport doesn't have to plummet in popularity when they are in short supply. Here are 10 sure-fire ways to fire up tennis.
"My goal this year is to play the full 30-weeks on the Tour" A year back, Paes' life seemed to be in tatters. Yet when we look at his career graph and his achievements on court, his fight against his affliction and his eventual victory... one is really amazed. 
Brad Gilbert: coach of championsWhen Gilbert put a struggling Andy Roddick's career back on track in 2003 — he grabbed the U.S. Open and the No. 1 ranking — Roddick hailed him as "the genius of all coaches.
Australia very much the ringmasterGREAT teams have this habit of striking just when the contest appears to be getting away from them. Once they claw their way back, great teams invariably progress to win. Not for nothing is Australia a great team.
Pakistan's strange tacticsPAKISTAN'S capitulation in the second Test has left me wondering where their famous warrior spirit has gone. Perhaps it has just floated away like their common sense and cricketing nous.
A Fletcher ward shines for South Africa!WHEN England coach Duncan Fletcher sat down with Michael Vaughan, the captain, to analyse the third Test defeat at Newlands, in Cape Town, by the substantial total of 196 runs he must have had two questions to ask.
A taciturn coachNow here is a simple fact that will not astonish regular readers of this diary. During the first day of the second Test at Kingsmead more beer is sold than during the entire Test against West Indies a year ago.
Old notions cannot be rejectedANYONE suggesting that cricket has changed is talking through his hat. Every generation announces that a better way has been found to put a ball in a hole or to splash up and down a pool or to hoof a hunk of leather between posts. Rejecting old ...
Plutocrats of the cricket worldAFTER their team's seemingly unending and unbroken sequence of victories, I don't think that it would be regarded as bragging, if Aussie supporters claim that their side has the best cricketers in the World.
A Very, Very Special human being Laxman is an old fashioned charmer, who can caress the ball into the open spaces with strokes of delicate beauty, writes S. DINAKAR.
No dearth of talent It is pretty evident that abilities with the bat supersede most other aspects when it concerns selection of the 'keeper for the National team.
Raising funds to alleviate the suffering The ICC too has been quick in arranging a match in Melbourne, Australia, where there's hope that plenty of money will be generated.
A mystery illnessTHERE is a mystery illness in the Indian cricket camp. Most of the cricketers were suffering from `Ranji-avoidance' fever before the commencement of the last round of the Ranji league matches. Usually physio Andrew Leipus keeps collecting fitness ...
Not quite a dream jobTHE quest for quality in commentary, how all-pervasively the espnstar idea caught on! Remote became the prospect of any control we viewers could exercise on channels plunging headlong into the glam-sham exercise. Glam-sham because, here, the ...
`I go by my instinct' The 46-year-old Crowe was in Kolkata in the role of a Match Referee during the India-South Africa Test series when The Sportstar caught up with him.
An auction for tsunami victimsTHE global sports management group, IMG, chipped in with Rs. 4.35 lakhs, rounding off to a total amount of Rs. 10 lakhs from the auction of autographed photos and equipment of sportspersons to raise funds for tsunami victims in Chennai. The ... 
Phelps gets probationOLYMPIC champion swimmer Michael Phelps was sentenced to 18 months' probation after pleading guilty to drunken driving. Judge Lloyd O. Whitehead granted the 19-year-old probation before judgment, which will allow Phelps' record to be expunged ... Kolkatans make merry INDIA's greatest ever writer spoke Bengali at home. So did India's finest film-maker of all time. Little wonder perhaps then that the Bengalis are pretty good in one of the most cerebral of human endeavours — chess. Of the 19 participants ...
Greatest Indian cricketer of his eraINDIAN cricket has never been short of superstars. The first of these was undoubtedly Col. Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu, forever known simply as `CK' or the `Shahenshah of Indian cricket' to his devoted fans.
Chetan, Trupti pull off contrasting winsWITH the National championship scheduled to come off this month end, the form shown by the contenders in the J. R. D. Tata all-India senior prize money badminton tournament for the men's crown was nothing to shout about.
The beleaguered leagueEIGHT years is too long a period to assess any event. That the Volleyball Federation of India's prestigious National league has completed its eighth year is itself a major achievement, considering the trials and tribulations it has gone through ...
He was no ordinary coach"The biggest quality of Balkishen Singh was his ability to minutely analyse the pattern of play and strategy of rival teams as well as individual players. His death is a great loss to hockey" — Balbir Singh ... A father figure WAS Balkishen Singh a visionary, born ahead of his time? Olympians fortunate enough to be trained by the noted coach remember him as a `father figure' able to bring out the best in players; a votary of discipline yet an expert in man-management ...
Royal honour for HolmesDUAL Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holmes said she was amazed and honoured to be made a dame in Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's Honours list. Holmes, 34, won the 800 and 1,500 meters at the Athens Olympic Games. Her DBE allows her to be called ... 
Age no obstacle to more success — SchumacherFERRARI'S Michael Schumacher is preparing for another season of success, this time as the oldest driver in Formula One. The seven times world champion, who turned 36, is confident he can beat the advancing years just as easily as he saw off ...
Rooney slapped three-match banMANCHESTER UNITED's push for the Premiership title suffered a major blow when star-striker Wayne Rooney was hit with a three-match ban after admitting a charge of violent conduct, the Football Association (FA) announced. The ban was imposed ... EURO FLAVOUR 
Gascoigne seriously illFORMER England soccer star Paul Gascoigne is seriously ill in hospital with pneumonia. Gascoigne, 37, is being treated at a hospital in northeast England after collapsing at his home. "Paul began feeling very unwell two or three days prior to ... EURO FLAVOUR Blatter wants to continue as FIFA chief FIFA President Sepp Blatter is ready to stand for a new term as the head of soccer's governing body until 2011 and will make suggestions to change the rules about offside at an International Board meeting next month. "Let's first complete the ...
QUIZ CORNER/V.V. RAMANAN4. Whose record of highest individual score against Pakistan did Virender Sehwag better during his 309 in early 2004? 5. In athletics, what is legally required to be 7.2 feet for women and 8.5 for men in competition? 6. Which was the third ...
Double for Soumyadeep and MoumaTHE Petroleum Sports Board inter-unit championship ranks among the best in the Table Tennis Federation of India's annual calendar. Almost all the leading players of the country represent the Petroleum units and it is mandatory on their part to ... Some quality matches OVER the past six years, the Nutrine tennis championship series has evolved into a premier meet for the sub-juniors, attracting the best of talent in the under-12 and under-14 players in the country. The championship conducted in Bangalore was a ... CHIDAMBARAM 
Annamalai retains titleANNAMALAI University retained the title in the South Zone inter-University hockey tournament for men at Annamalai Nagar near Chidambaram. Thirtysix teams participated in the tournament in which the top four teams of the previous edition — ...
European STARSNOW that the ill-organised European Champions Cup has at last emerged from its clumsy qualifying group stage, with all the inevitable anticlimaxes, what of the knock-out stage, which will be with us in February? |
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