Observed every morning through the Mill’s emerald prism of rumour, half-truth, lies and things that appear in the Daily Star, football can look like a deeply envious kind of place. To the Mill’s unblinking green-hued gimlet eye this is a world of jealousy, grasping aspiration and sweaty men in shiny suits who make stuff up [...]
Usually it is the Conservative Party conference that is profoundly depressing (and to be the fair to the bastards, I am sure they won't disappoint this week as they prepare for power by taking it in turns to smug up to the lectern and denounce as demented anyone who has the temerity to call for a small windfall levy on those whose properties have risen […]
Pune Oct 13 : Hosts India opened their medals tally with Ankush Bharadwaj capturing the first gold of the Games by winning the 50 meters Pistol event for men aggregating a tally of 509 points, on the second day today of the third edition of the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) in progress at the Shiv [...]
None of the green projects for the Commonwealth Youth Games have actually seen the light of day. Instead of planting more trees, 7000 of the existing trees were cut to make way for road widening projects for the games.. TOUTED AS the ’green games’, the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) have now started. While there has been [...]
After leading England to an impressive 3-1 victory over Belarus last night, Wayne Rooney has set his sights on finishing World Cup qualifying with a perfect record… The Manchester United star netted twice in Minsk as England claimed their fourth consecutive win to increase their stranglehold on UEFA Group Six. The Three Lions will be aiming for [...]
V.V. Subrahmanyam PUNE: Olympian Virdhawal Khade claimed a gold and two silvers in the pool while the Indian wrestlers won three gold medals in the third Commonwealth Youth Games at the Shiv Chatrapathi Sports Complex here on Wednesday. The 17-year-old Khade, who finished with a silver in 200m freestyle in the first event of the evening, came [...]
Press Trust of India Thursday, October 16, 2008 (Bonn (Germany)) Viswanathan Anand held an upper hand with an extra Pawn but settled for a draw in a tense encounter with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia after 32 moves in the second game of the world chess championship now underway in Bonn. In a daring strategy, Anand abandoned his pet [...]
One wonders why the All India football Federation (AIFF) took all of a dozen years to apply a concrete structure to a tattered National Football League (NFL) and make it I-League. Come to think of it, the federation didn’t have any set goals. NFL was conceived and implemented in a flash. The federation may have [...]
Nairobi: There are no funds. Cricketers are becoming rarer. The government is not interested. The international community doesn’t seem to care much. Welcome to Kenyan cricket. Five years after stunning the cricket world by making the cut for the 2003 World Cup semi-finals in South Africa, Kenyan cricket is crying out for help. “We need to [...]
By Dylan Cleaver Here’s a brief history lesson. The last time New Zealand toured Australia was 2004. The build-up to the tour was a two-test jaunt to Bangladesh where they whipped the home side in two horribly lop-sided tests. New Zealand were then thrashed in Australia. After a promising start in Brisbane, fuelled by a brilliant Jacob Oram century, [. […]