Sunday 9 August '09
Not many would have given India a chance against the tournament’s unbeaten team for far — Brazil — in the semi-final of the junior world volleyball championship.Saturday 8 August '09
Team India suffered a scare a day ahead of their semi-final clash against Brazil when star spiker Gurinder Singh was tested for H1N1 on Friday morning.Friday
7 August '09India’s junior spikers continued to rewrite the history books by their latest display in the world junior volleyball championships in Pune — a 3-2 victory over Belgium that took them into the semi-finals.Friday
7 August '09Statistics show that India have been amongst the top four every time Gurinder Singh has participated in a tournament. With a place secured...Thursday
6 August '09After the high of beating Russia on Tuesday, the Indian spikers lost in straight sets to the gritty Argentines in the second match.Thursday
6 August '09Erik Shoji, the libero of the USA team, and his family personify the title ‘Fittest city in the US’ given to Honolulu in Hawaii, with the entire family engaged in the sport of volleyball.Wednesday
5 August '09Junior spikers beat Russia in five-setter, move closer to last-four stage in world u-21 championshipsWednesday
5 August '09Playing on the makeshift mud courts of a small village in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu with elder brother Selvin....Wednesday
5 August '09India’s young spikers made sure their dream run at the U-21 world junior volleyball championships would continue as they defeated Russia.Tuesday
4 August '09Never in my life did I hear so many spectators chanting my name. It was an overwhelming feeling,” said Manidurai Naveen Raja Jacob....Monday
3 August '09India wiped out USA in straight sets and created history by making the quarter-finals of the FIVB Men’s Junior Volleyball World Championship...Sunday
2 August '09The longest rally in the second set of the match saw three Indian players lunging at impossible angles to return a smash, but there was no gas left...Saturday
1 August '09A tad too tall to bend down and dribble with the hockey stick, Mandeep Singh was advised by cousin Gagan Ajit Singh and uncle Ajit Singh...Friday
31 July '09While the voices in the stands may be cheering for the Indian team at the FIVB Under-21 men’s volleyball championship in Pune....Sunday
26 July '09Despite a fairly rich history, volleyball has always had a reclusive existence in the country. Ahead of the U-21 World Youth Championships in Pune, Kabir Mandrekar tries to find out why the sport has never grown beyond a few loyal pockets....Friday
24 July '09The Indian hockey team, just off their first training camp under chief coach Jose Brasa, ran into a number of problems on Thursday on their way to New Delhi...Monday
20 July '09With Baljit Singh battling a career-threatening eye injury in Delhi, goalkeeping coach Romeo James has decided to scrap practising with golf balls and stick to conventional training.Tuesday
14 July '09Eleven out of the 24 Indian rugby squad probables will receive the tag of player/coach when they attend the three-day ‘Train the Trainer’ programme — the first ever International Rugby Board level 1 men's coaching course in India — starting Friday at the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports City, Balewadi.Friday
10 July '09As athletes started gearing up this week for the selection trials of the Asian cadet wrestling championships, a young grappler found she was grossly overweight for her category.Sunday
5 July '09A day after he was accused of beating up a player and making him parade in his underwear, Vinayak Gaikwad...Friday
3 July '09The essence of the Jose Brasa plan, with no distinction between defensive and offensive players...Sunday
28 June '09What is the focus of your coaching style.....Sunday
28 June '09It is evident that the new Indian hockey coach is a quick learner. A week into his first camp with the India....Sunday
21 June '09Former captain and the world’s most capped player, Dilip Tirkey, is of the view that the Indian hockey team will give their opponents...Thursday
18 June '09While the Indian hockey team’s training camp continues to suffer due to lack of water for the turf, the squad is now also battling injuries to five of the 30 probables assembled here.
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