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June 17th, 2008

Olympics 2016 Logos

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!With the Beijing Olympics nearing, the race for the 2016 edition is just warming up. The finalist cities of Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo all have interesting logos or at least much better than [...]

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June 10th, 2008

NBA Athletes Going Broke

Nearly 60% of NBA athletes go broke five years after retiring. No wonder it makes sense to first graduate from college before embarking on that get-rich-quick NBA career. I hope LeBron James finds time to go back to college soon.

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June 2nd, 2008

IPL Final attracts 24 million.

Considering that nearly 27 million watched the India-Pakistan Twenty20 Final last year, the estimate of 24 million for IPL’s final between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai SuperKings is impressive. And it is considered to be a conservative estimate. The Indian public raised mostly on nationalistic fervor of the game far exceeded expectations and loved the new [...]

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April 29th, 2008

IPL Cheerleaders

The Indian Premier League (IPL) has thrown up plenty of interesting scenarios that have opened up fresh avenues of discussions in the Indian media and the blogosphere. One of the hotly discussed issue has been that of importing cheerleaders from the U.S. and having them perform in front of crowds during a match. I linked [...]

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April 28th, 2008

Much Needed Disciplinary Action

For a change, I am glad with IPL’s decision to ban Harbhajan Singh for the rest of the currently ongoing Twenty20 tournament. Further more, Harbhajan stands to lose nearly 2.67 crores for being such a sore loser. I’m sorry to see Mumbai Indians whom I naturally support in the IPL league lose a player but [...]

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April 22nd, 2008

Loyalty for your IPL Team

The Indian Premier League (IPL), the official cricket league in India kicked off in dramatic fashion last week and it has been a virtual mayhem almost every day in terms of soaring sixes and hard-hit boundaries. Due to its Twenty20 format, there is hardly any time to breathe and this has kept the excitement levels [...]

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April 15th, 2008

The inanity of the Olympic Torch Relay

Over the past month, new media has been inundated with the progress of the Olympic Torch relay and the hot water it has been getting into. As Jon Stewart eruditely remarked, Tibet protesters are hell bent upon interrupting the relay and extinguishing the torch as it doing so will instantly free Tibet. But I can [...]

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April 3rd, 2008

B Raman’s Open Letter to Aamir Khan

I request those of you who have asked me to stay away from the Olympic Torch Relay to understand that when I do run with the torch on the 17th of April it is not in support of China. In fact it will be with a prayer in my heart for the people of Tibet, [...]

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April 2nd, 2008

Aggie Women Scale New Heights

The Aggies Womens basketball team crashed out of the NCAA tournament yesterday and failed to make the Final Four. They lost to the defending champions, Tennessee. But it was still one of Aggies triumphant moments by playing in the Elite Eight for the first time. Until they choked in the final seven minutes, they were [...]

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March 31st, 2008

Standing up to China

Finally we have a celebrity in India who has the balls to stand up for what he believes in. Baichung Bhutia, India’s ace footballer refused to carry the Olympic torch when it reaches New Delhi on April 17 [source: ToI]:
Talking to TOI , Bhutia, a Buddhist, said, ‘‘I sympathize with the [...]

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December 7th, 2007

Life of a Substitute

Vikash Dhorasoo was the closest any ‘desi’ came to winning the Football World Cup but unfortunately he may not get a second shot. But instead, the Oscar or Cannes may be more within reach.

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December 3rd, 2007

Swadeshi Movement for a Cricket Coach

Ajit Wadekar is credited with enormous cricket successes as an Indian captain in 1971 and later as a coach in the early 90s. In my opinion, he was simply lucky to have the right players that guided India to victory. I am not doubting his talent as a cricketer because frankly neither have I seen [...]

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November 15th, 2007

Pinky Sixers

How can you take a sports team serious when they are dressed like this? Perhaps Manish Malhotra should restrict himself to Karan Johar movies [via The Bombay Bitch]. If you are wondering, these supposedly the team uniforms for the newly-launched Indian Premier Cricket League [hat tip: Piker]. Perhaps Shah Rukh Khan, Russell Crowe, and Anil [...]

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November 3rd, 2007

Chat with Harsha Bhogle

IndiCast has an excellent tête-à-tête with Harsha Bhogle, whose cricket insights we love so much.

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October 30th, 2007

Notre Dame’s Worst Nightmare

If you have been trying to find the reason for Notre Dame’s dismal football season, look no further than its over-hyped coach Charlie Weis. Closer to home, Aggies’ Coach Fran is no great shakes either; no wonder they choke on national television. There, I said it.

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