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Argentina’s greatest hero is back. This time in a different role though, as manager of the Argentinian side. It seems one cant keep the legend away from the field. I believe this man has enough genius and passion about the game to turn the Argentinian side back to being world beaters and more importantly champions of South America where it has got a bit boring with Read the rest of this entry »
I have always rated Andy Murray very high and definitely among the top prospects after the usual 3 of Federer, Nadal & Djokovic. I wrote about him being top five material much before he was even in the top 10.
He has now already questioning the top 3 players and may even make it to the top 3 before end of 2008. He is young and Read the rest of this entry »
I don’t think F1 - Motor Racing fans are too much used to close finishes to the season. Its usually been one guy taking the throne pretty much in the middle of the year with clear dominance. There have been close ones in the past but not been as close as this year where the last race could decide either way between number 1 and 2.
Even though Lewis Hamilton is Read the rest of this entry »
When the rather unknown LA Galaxy signed up David Beckham to play in the Major League Soccer in US, I know many serious sports fans called it a stupid money move. I mean what a waste of talent. Of course there was a lot more involved than just that. People talked about how Posh Spice, Victoria Beckham, his wife wanted the LA life style and glamour and the husband Read the rest of this entry »
I have been away. I know. I have been up to something. Presenting to you UTP’s Sports Talk Forums.
A few of my friends have been asking to work on some sort of a forum to have some serious discussions on various different sports. That always sounded like a great idea considering so much of heated discussions take place on sports while at work or while meeting up in the evenings with friends. I have always been exploring various options to get something of the sort going. The result is UTP’s Sports Talk Forums.
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The US Basketball team ensured they live up to their promises and they finally delivered. It was a men-at-work Olympics for best team on the world. With the strongest and most famous league in the world, they should be winning each year and were surprise losers last Olympics. The only flaw identified as Leadership. As mentioned in another Read the rest of this entry »
After watching many type of sports at the almost concluding Olympics at Beijing last few weeks, I was thinking what would it take to bring the game of cricket to it. It took a long while to bring in baseball to the Olympics and only because it had the big names in it.
Big names being USA, Japan, China Read the rest of this entry »
Now you see him, now you don’t. That is how Usain Bolt has been on the Beijing Tracks this Olympics. After the 100m dazzling performance, he lives up to his expectations by breaking the 200m record as well. He has been nothing short of his name, the “Bolt” of lightening.
He has achieved what only one other person in Read the rest of this entry »
After such a long process of Pakistan Cricket Board trying to prove to the ICC that the Champions Trophy can be held in Pakistan. The security situation is good enough to have the tournament and amidst so much speculation and worry, they were able to somehow convince the ICC to serve some international cricket to the starved fans. They succeeded and Read the rest of this entry »
Rafael Nadal beat Fernando Gonzalez 6-3, 7-6 (7-2), 6-3 in the Beijing Olympics Final to finally achieve what he had been chasing for 160 weeks, the No.1 ranked player in the world. His consistency has finally made him achieve what no one could even dream of coming close to last year with Federer as dominant as it gets.
However, Nadal has played great tennis all this year Read the rest of this entry »
