Weeks of abstinence and finally after dangling the proverbial carrot in front of hardcore football lover’s, starts another season of Premier League Football and along with it comes the plethora of views of pundits and critics and football lovers across the world analyzing every nook and cranny of every team. For what it’s worth, they [...]
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The Nehru Cup is back to Delhi and it has brought back the hopes and expectations of the 2007 edition that India nicked, against the then favorites Syria. Team India is expected to do well on their home turf under the stewardship of coach Bob Houghton who has been a lucky talisman for the underachievers [...]
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Sir Bobby Robson, the football guru who guided England to world cup semi-finals after England’s long absence in the semi finals since 1966, bid farewell to the world recently after a long battle against cancer. Sir Bobby who was a true football globe-trotter, managed about a dozen top-level clubs and became a national celebrity in [...]
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Some time back, when Top Gear revealed the Stig as Michael Schumacher himself, there was buzz around the fans of both the show and the driver, and obviously the racing world. Websites had the news doing rounds for quite some time then, and twitter was trending with the news.
Yesterday, Schumacher created waves again. After retiring [...]
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"Cricket is a game of great uncertainties," said a very wise man. However, when making that statement, the gentleman had not witnessed a T20 game as it was still years until the format was invented. What would he have said had he witnessed the second season of IPL? "In all certainty, cricket thy name is [...]
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Today that the semi-finals kick off with Barcelona and Chelsea, a refreshing round-up wouldn’t have hurt.
Three seasons in a row, England has managed to pit three of its Premier league teams in the Champions League Semi-Finals. An achievement, isn’t it? Dominated a very long time by the likes of football giants such as Real Madrid, [...]
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If you thought the Australian GP was over when Button took the checkered flag, you are a novice in the world of Formula 1. It has been six days since the conclusion of the race and there have been three changes to the classification of drivers - that's, on an average, a new one every [...]
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There were slight tremors felt in Japan on the Sunday afternoon (29th March). The tremors were triggered by employees of Honda, an automobile manufacturing company, by banging their heads against the walls at their respective homes. This occurred only moments after Brawn GP team scored a 1-2 victory at Albert's Park, Australia, in the opening [...]
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Each team engaged in the English Premier League has only nine games to play, making each game a ‘do or die’ situation for them. We’ve reached the climax where, now, anything is possible. Man United, Liverpool and Chelsea, fighting for the title, know that if they commit any mistake now, their title hopes will vanish into thin air. [...]
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Once upon a time, Markhors (the national animal of Pakistan) invited their neighbors the Tigers over for a contest. Tigers and Markhor have traditionally been the classic neighbors - almost always indulging in petty fights. Only recently did a few notorious Markhors create havoc in the territory of Tigers. Owing to this reason, the [...]
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