She was a petite perfectionist in an age of muscular athletes. She possessed a backhand from heaven and shot-making abilities second to no other female tennis player. She was the person who ended the Williams sisters’ dominance in such stunning fashion and then went on to usurp their role.
Justine Henin. Always number one. Thanks for the beautiful moments. And [...]
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Posted in India, libertarianism, sports, tagged betting, bindra, cricket, freedom, legalization, match fixing, regulation on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I.S. Bindra wants betting on cricket to be legalized in India. I wouldn’t have expected such a sane proposal from a person with a history of saying stupid things. But credit where credit’s due. Bravo!
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There’s a right way and a wrong way of going about improving your circumstances and I think I went about it the right way, so I don’t understand why people would be calling me disloyal.
I find it strange that in any other job people accept that you try to improve your circumstances and get in [...]
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Federer vs Tipsarevic 6-7 7-6 5-7 6-1 10-8.
I was up till 2 AM watching this epic battle and every moment was worth it.
Here is a great highlights capsule from ESPN. It is merely 1:45 long but includes some of the best points that were played last night.
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Tim de Lisle has a piece in Cricinfo where he says that sledging without an obvious skin-colour dimension is often as offensive as racial sledging. I agree. However, his solution to the conundrum is to ban all sledging. Mine, as I wrote yesterday, is to allow it.
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Posted in sports, tagged andrew symonds, harbhajan, harbhajan singh, india-australia test, monkey, procter, racism, sledging, sports, symonds on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The poor umpiring and Harbhajan Singh’s three match ban for alleged racist remarks to Andrew Symonds have marred what was otherwise an excellent test match.
Even if it is true that Bhajji is guilty (which does not seem to have been unambiguously proved) I feel that the three match ban is unreasonably harsh. Harbhajan is alleged [...]
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Posted in sports, tagged australia, cricinfo, dravid, india australia, indian cricket, manjrekar, mcg, rahul dravid, sports, test cricket on December 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan, in an excellent article on Cricinfo, says that Dravid’s painstaking innings and the subsequent Indian batting collapse is just the latest evidence for an old truth: the wait-and-watch approach does not work against Australia.
Sixteen years ago Sanjay Manjrekar came to Australia as India’s best batsman. He had enjoyed a wonderful series in Pakistan [...]
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