

Sunday 15 June '08
Reputations have been forged, destroyed and forced into reconsideration as every ninety minutes of this year’s Santosh Trophy have unfolded...Saturday 14 June '08
Sanath Kumar at least deserved full marks for consistency — Karnataka’s No 12 missed a wide range of sitters throughout this Santosh Trophy semi-final against Punjab...Friday
13 June '08Bengal's Shankar Oraon kicked the ball into the waiting net with as much strength as frustration could muster.Thursday
12 June '08Going by tradition, Services had no historical right to be part of the Santosh Trophy semi-finals. But this year, with every...Wednesday
11 June '08Karnataka ‘keeper Gumpe Rime’s desperate punch to keep the ball out in the closing moments of their match against Goa...Tuesday
10 June '08Monday’s itinerary was one that dripped significance off every team sheet - the second Pool A semi-final spot was there...Monday
9 June '08The few minutes of football that had to be played between Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab following Saturday’s fracas...Monday
9 June '08The folk music blaring from the speakers at the Bakshi Stadium today was perhaps a desperate attempt to banish yesterday’s events from public memory.Sunday
8 June '08If passion was measured in goals, Jammu and Kashmir would already have been declared champions of the Santosh Trophy.Sunday
8 June '08While the mercury is steadily rising in the coniferous Swiss landscape with every feint that Cristiano Ronaldo fashions...Saturday
7 June '08“Earlier, the guns did scare us,” laughs Abioudan Martins, referring to the mass of rifle-toting policemen that dot the streets of Srinagar.Saturday
7 June '08With the home team not being part of the day’s Santosh Trophy schedule, the crowd, too, decided to give the quarter-final league proceedings a miss.Friday
6 June '08It seemed odd, the deafening roar that rocked the Bakshi Stadium came at an insignificant moment in the first Santosh Trophy...Thursday
5 June '08Just a few days ago, it was the fierce stares of Oliver Kahn and a few sharp words from Mark van Bommel that Ishfaq Ahmed had to contend with.Saturday
31 May '08Many have been there, done that. Trophies won, honours collected, hopes raised.Friday
23 May '08In the midst of Leander Paes’s usual volley of words, came a succinct summing up of the never-ending saga that is now...Wednesday
21 May '08Russian tennis players have painted themselves in glittering hues all over the world’s tennis circuit, but often...Tuesday
13 May '08The big serve is now used to dismiss much lesser players, and sometimes it fails to do even that; the booming groundstrokes don’t have half the power...Sunday
4 May '08After more than two hours of many fist pumps and rallying cries, Motoaki Kita simply refused to believe his match was over.Monday
14 April '08The irony, perhaps, was not lost on Prakash Amritraj and Rohan Bopanna. Their recent stormy letter to the All India Tennis Association derided Leander Paes...Sunday
13 April '08One particularly enthusiastic flag-wielding Japanese fan resorted to perching himself precariously on a railing at the RK Khanna Stadium today...Saturday
12 April '08Hosts one step away from World Group play-offs after Bopanna, Amritraj earn hard-fought winsFriday
11 April '08Rohan Bopanna declared fit for crucial Davis Cup weekend, Prakash to play second singlesThursday
10 April '08Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes were on the same side of the net after seemingly an era, but a few moments of that practice session, too...Wednesday
9 April '08Japan is known for producing the best electronic gadgets, but not for tennis prodigies.