Olympics Galore

India has reason to celebrate [http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-11-voa21.cfm]. Abhinav Bindra claimed the men’s 10-meter air rifle shooting title at the Beijing Olympics. India’s first-ever Olympic gold medal [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/92A/IND_T.shtml] in an individual event. The…

Wingers no less

After a poised loss against Australia, this is what the skipper of the Indian cricket team Mahendra Singh Dhoni had to say [http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2008/feb/01dhoni.htm]: > “The crowd was noisy but I don’t think the boys were distracted by it. In smaller towns,…

Sir Sachin Tendulkar

Noting that cricket is one of the great things that bind the Commonwealth nations together, British PM Gordon Brown has hinted [http://www.hindustantimes.com/storypage/storypage.aspx?id=9129cb2d-1f72-4d9d-bd2c-9d48104e63d3&&Headline=Brown+for+bestowing+knighthood+on+Sachin] that Sachin Tendulkar [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachin_Tendulkar], one…

The Economics of a Sport like Cricket

The Cricket World Cup 2007 [http://cricketworldcup.indya.com/] is on, so far, surrounded by strangeness. A team [http://www.icc-cricket.com/icc/members/pakistan.html] ranked 4th [http://www.icc-cricket.com/icc/odi/] loses to an unranked team [http://www.icc-cricket.com/icc/members/ireland.html], their coach dies…

Men in Yellow

[http://www.hindustantimes.com/htcricket/8122_1837812,00160137.htm] Oz team: Bunch of backstreet boys? [http://www.hindustantimes.com/htcricket/8122_1837812,00160137.htm]…

Football World Cup 2006

In the next 20 days, thirty-two teams from across the globe make up the field in Germany for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals [http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/]. Here’s a schedule and results highlight [http://in.rediff.com/sports/fifa06schedule.html] for the Football World Cup 2006.…

Experience is like a comb

[http://badmash.tv/comica.php?id=112] > Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald. Badmash Comic [http://badmash.tv/comica.php?id=112] vs Sidhuism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidhuism] (i.e. Navjot Sidhu utterances [http://stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~kghia/oneliners.…

Tendulkar aallaa re!

Sachin Tendulkar [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachin_Tendulkar] has made a comeback in the Indian cricket team, and what a comeback it is! Scoring 93 runs of 96 balls, with 9 fours and 2 sixes, against Sri Lanka. Too bad he fell short of the century, but he’s…