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VOL.28 :: NO.36 :: Sep. 03 - 09, 2005
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From the publishers of THE HINDU VOL.28 :: NO.36 :: Sep. 03 - 09, 2005 |
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JOHN BUCHANAN cannot be blamed if he were just exhibiting a desire to live in the past. After all, as noted historian Eric Hobsbawn wrote a few years ago, communities and nations that once enjoyed absolute power show an alarming level of ...
Stunning looks, winning tennis The evolution of Maria Sharapova offers the most compelling evidence yet that the direction which the game has taken, particularly since the power chord-strumming Williams sisters arrived in the late 1990s, cannot be altered, writes VIJAY PARTHASARATHY.
A FLEETING visit last week to one planet in the online universe of Maria Sharapova (mariaworld.net), where her career is breathlessly recorded, is revealing in the symmetry of its headlines. First was stated news of the US Open draw, then the ...
Messiah of the summer sportFlintoff is from the age when cricket, and sport in general, had not been engulfed by sombre greats who harped on focus, concentration and single-mindedness without realising that these can coexist with the diverse pleasures of life.
Back at the centre of attentionAUGUST 15. The revival of interest in the old game is not just in the 23,000 people to see the last day of the Test but in the amount of space it commands in the national newspapers. Each day a summary arrives on my desk in the press box. At the ...
The prim and proper professionalsTHERE are many cricket ratings — most of which don't make sense — but if there was a system to pick the most exciting team, India would fail to qualify, finish at the bottom, not make the cutoff. Our players are big on talent and ...
Home team remains the perfect hostZIMBABWE has lost six of the eight Tests that it played in since April 2004 — two each to Sri Lanka, South Africa and recently New Zealand. And in what was dubbed as the `battle of the lightweights' last season, the African nation presented ...
A nerve-wracking contestTHE legend of Victor Trumper, whom many Australian cricket lovers swear was the greatest batsman of all time, was born on the opening day of the fourth Test at Old Trafford in July 1902. The first two Test matches were drawn and Australia had ...
Time spent at GLORIOUS HIGHBURY WHEN Arsenal recently played their opening match of the League season at home to Newcastle United, they staged a highly nostalgic parade of past players; and many a memory was activated. Not least for one who, like myself, was an Arsenal fan from ...
The SAD case of the NARROW baseIN world volleyball, the powerful jump serve is emerging as the strongest weapon, as the Russians proved in the recently concluded 13th World Junior Men's (Under-21) Volleyball Championship in Visakhapatnam. Then, of course, there is the block. ...
One-horse RACEMORE than the placing and prizes, the National `B' chess championship is all about being in the pack of 14 for the next National championship. A field of around 300 players, including about 40 serious aspirants for the qualifying spots, go ...
The 14 Players1. R. B. Ramesh: Seeded 1; Rating 2464; Performance of 2601 against opponents with an average rating of 2350; A gain of 19 rating points. ...
A bold stepSir, — Kudos for making Indian chess and its King (V. Anand) the Cover Story of the August 13th issue of your magazine. It sure requires courage of conviction to make a sport other than cricket the Cover Story especially when the tri-nation ...
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