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03-11-201818 STORIES

Fans cheeering at an Australian Rules football match between Richmond and Hawthorn at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). The famed MCG is used for Australian Rules or Footy in the non-cricket season. In fact, the crowd record at the MCG is for Footy and not cricket.

Australian Rules Football: Four games in one!

Australian Rules Football is a rage in the nation of its birth. Now, the sport's administrators want to make it a big-time sport in India.

Mumbai: Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah addresses during a book launch titled 'Beloved Delhi' by author Saif Mahmood, in Mumbai, Monday, Sept 17, 2018. (PTI Photo)(PTI9_18_2018_000043A)

For The Love of Sport

When I bowled to Gavaskar and Patil

The veteran actor shares his special memories with cricket and tennis.

NASEERUDDIN SHAH

Sweet potato halwa is a recipe I use to enhance athletes’ performance while also acknowledging the sweet tooth or sugar cravings that help them actually feel good about the snack.

Sweet victory or sweet tooth

Many sweet dishes can be strategically used to replenish carbohydrate reserves in athletes and at the same time give them the benefit of not having to

Ryan Fernando

It is 30 years since Ben Johnson won, and was then disqualified from, the 100m at the Seoul Olympics.

Not an ideal world: WADA's credibility takes a hit after Russia reinstatement

WADA’s decision to lift the ban on Russia for its state-sponsored programme of doping has thrown the sports world into turmoil because it failed to st

Suresh Menon

The Indian football team before the start of the match against Kenya at the Hero Intercontinental Cup in Mumbai on June 4, 2018. There is an upswing in the team’s performances and the Indian tricolour is really flying high.

Dreaming big for Indian football!

India is now at its highest ever FIFA ranking of 97. The number of teams making it to World Cup 2022 is expected to be 48. If we can improve our ranki

M. Sreeshankar of Kerala soaring to a record distance in the men's long jump final at the 58th National Open athletics championship at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar in September.

India's long jump star Sreeshankar takes off

Ever since breaking the national record with a 8.20m jump, 19-year-old long jumper Sreeshankar has been one of India's leading medal prospects at inte

“He’s (Sachin) a wonderful man when it comes to easing youngsters into the team environment,” says Akash Chopra.

‘My introduction to him was quite overwhelming ’

If Sachin Tendulkar hadn’t spoken to me, I would never have had the courage to talk to him. So he went out of his way to ask questions for which he al

Prithvi Shaw was in scintillating form with the bat in the just concluded two-Test series against West Indies.

The Prithvi show

Prithvi Shaw’s hundred came against a depleted West Indies attack. But it is not every day that a teenager makes his Test debut, that too as an opener

With four races to go in the season, Lewis Hamilton leads the standings by 67 points, and if he wins the US Grand Prix with Sebastian Vettel finishing no higher than third, the title is his.

Greatness comes in pairs

Lewis Hamilton is now 33 and Sebastian Vettel 31, and both have a few years of racing to go. The records set by Michael Schumacher seem increasingly w

Pallavi Shyam Sundar an educator, a football facilitator and a change-maker in Bengaluru.

Football in Pallavi Raga!

The five years with Dream a Dream have seen Pallavi Shyam Sundar progress from a participant in 2014 for a FIFA football festival in Brazil to being n

A freak injury during training is a major blow to Vinesh Phogat’s hopes of ending the year where she started it — atop the podium.

Vinesh Phogat: Sweat, strength and broken bones

Two years after her injury at the Rio Olympics, Vinesh Phogat is in similar territory. She’ll sit out the World Championships where she was favoured t

Their opposite playing styles — 21-year-old John McEnroe’s spectacular serving and volleying versus 24-year-old Bjorn Borg’s consistent groundstrokes and deadly passing shots — made the 1980 Wimbledon final even more enticing.

Battle within a battle: The greatest tiebreakers

Let’s harken back to some memorable do-or-die tiebreakers that made history and brought point-by-point agony and ecstasy, depending on whom you rooted

Paul Fein

Australia’s Usman Khawaja thwarted the Pakistani bowling attack to secure a draw for his team in the first of the two Test matches in Dubai.

On The Write Line

Let’s bat for more Tests

Test cricket needs more support and needs to be more meaningful for the interest to be sustained.

Sunil Gavaskar

Talented: Manu Bhaker impressed in the Commonwealth Games with a gold medal in the women’s air pistol event.

Gunning for Olympic glory

Right from the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, through the Asian Games in Palembang to the World Championship in Changwon, the Indian juniors have b

Kamesh Srinivasan

With a Masters degree in sports psychology and an artistic bent of mind, Anjum has the ability to excel in everything she does.

Anjum Moudgil - Triggering a happy feat

By winning a silver medal in the the 10m air rifle event in South Korea — and securing an Olympic quota thereby — Anjum Moudgil became the first India

Kamesh Srinivasan

With his grizzly warmth and booming laughter, the fun and pleasure that flows through Jurgen Klopp’s body and onto the Anfield pitch is the tonic a city needs.

A poverty-stricken city finds riches in football!

Liverpool Football Club not only brings solace to its home city through its game, it has also set up a “red neighbours” scheme, a breakfast club for d

The Indian team poses trophy after winning the the second Test cricket match against the West Indies in Hyderabad on October 14, 2018.

A century of wins!

After another disappointing race at Suzuka, Sebastian Vettel trails title rival Lewis Hamilton by 67 points.

View from the paddock

Is Vettel’s title challenge over?

Ferrari needs the prayers of every member of the global tifosi fan club, plus perhaps some divine intervention to win this title now.

Karun Chandhok

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