Sports

Mr. ‘Octopus Paul’ has performed miracles by making all predictions correct of the current World Cup Championship matches, whereas predictions of renowned experts of the world have gone awry.  Highly fancied teams like Brazil, Argentina, Italy, France and Germany – all strong contenders for the coveted title of the world have fallen by the way side before they could make any impact on the tournament.

Of the 208 football playing nations, affiliated to the Federation Of International Football Associations (popularly known as FIFA), 204 played hundreds of qualifying matches in their respective zones to emerge privileged members of the elite club of 32 finest football teams to vie for supremacy in football playing skills, speed , strength and stamina.

As Vishwanathan Anand, the Indian chess Grandmaster, yet again claimed the World Champion title with the long established trademark ease of his; he also established a new chess record raising the bar for all chess greats now and in times to come. Winning the World Champion title against Veselin Topalov in Sofia, Bulgaria on Tuesday, Annad engraved his name as a ‘chess supremo’, attaining a feat that none had achieved.

Participating for the first time, the Indian hockey team stunned the whole world by winning a gold medal at Amsterdam Olympics in 1928. Thereafter, the country maintained the streak of winning gold medals at Los Angeles in 1932; at Berlin in1936; at London in 1948; at Helsinki in 1952 and at Melbourne in 1956. Pakistan, for the first time, halted the winning spree of Indian hockey team at Rome in 1960 but the Indian hockey team snatched the Gold medal back from Pakistan at Tokyo Olympics in 1964.

“Individual commitment to a group effort that is what makes a team work, a society work and a civilization work”, says Vince Lambardi.

An old saying, “A genius is a genius and shall always remain a genius”, has been aptly proved by Sachin Tendulkar. At a tender age of 16 in 1989, and at his debut match against Pakistan, Tendulkar has demonstrated his exceptional natural batting flair by hitting Abdul Kader’s balls out off the boundary repeatedly.
Abdul Kader – the then world renowned spinner was stunned by his aggressive batting and most atrocious hitting. Kader then paid his tribute by describing Tendulkar as future great cricketer. Since then, he never looked back.

In a generous gesture to promote the game of hockey in the Asian continent, Federation of International Hockey (FIH), has rightly honoured India to play the role of a host nation of the 12th edition of Men’s Hockey World Cup Championship, scheduled to begin from February 28, 2010 in Delhi.

The students of the Osmania University (OU), Hyderabad have announced their decision of foiling the Indian Premier League – 3 inaugural function to be held in Hyderabad soon; much against the plans of the Telangana Joint Action Committee of politicians.

Youngsters at Bothal Middle School were could not believe their eyes when England cricket ace Stephen Harmison arrived in their school. Harmison visited the school to participate in a special sport’s day celebrations. 

Taking action on a matter wherein some players were not allowed to participate in Polly Umrigar Trophy last month, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has sought explanation to Baroda Cricket Association (BCA). The cricket board seeks explanation as to why some players could not play in the U-16 Polly Umrigar Trophy.