SPECIAL REPORT
THERE is a lot that has been happening in Indian football. The I-League season ended with a damper, only to find a sponsor for the former AIFF property Indian Arrows. Foreign investors are thronging our frontiers with a bouquet of offerings, but no money. Everyone is convinced that India is the next frontier for world football…
MUMBAI: Expected to grow at a rate of 18% by the end of 2010, Gaming is surely creating a buzz across the country. With sports gaming here estimated to be worth Rs.5.3 billion in revenue terms, everybody from telecom companies, to game developers and social networking sites see a huge potential in the Indian market.
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AS I SAID earlier in the first instalment of this column, the debate is whether it is the sports federations or the Sports Ministry that must run sport in the country.
OPINION has been sharply divided as to who is a greater menace: the sports federations, the Sports Ministry or the Sports Mminister himself. I have been admonished by my seniors for siding with the federations, who, said they, have ruined Indian sports.
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WITH the Airtel Champions LeagueTwenty20 all set to kick off Friday, here is an interesting perspective on the response of consumers to the three IPL teams playing in the CL T20 – Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore.
MORE than Rs 300 billion of brick and mortar and power cables and giant television sets and astroturfs and tracks and fields and shooting ranges… and… and… and….
And what? Gala is the word. When I entered the boxing ring at the Talkatora Sports Complex to attend a press conference some one month ago, I was, honestly, stunned. After the…
Two statements will go down in the annuls of the history of Commonwealth Games: the arrogance of predicting it to the be the “best Games ever”; and the allegory of the ‘big fat Indian wedding’. Umpteen times, Games officials, the clichéd chorus led by OC chief Suresh Kalmadi, have parroted these words. The allegory being that like in any…
MUMBAI: The best possible deal that addresses the concerns of players, the Indian cricket board and the ten franchises. That's what has been delivered as far as the Indian Premier League's new 74-game formula, effective from season IV, is concerned.
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MUMBAI: The wait is finally over as the world’s most watched sporting spectacle is all set to kick off Friday, and if we are to go by experts’ opinions, all indications are that this edition of the World Cup will be even bigger blockbuster than the last one in 2006 in Germany.
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THE KING of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, despite the barely 30 springs he has passed by, is a wise man. He summoned the media last August and said that he dreaded silence. “When everything is silent, when no one is complaining, when things seem to be too good, I am sure something is wrong below the surface.”
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