Bindaas is how you describe the Wall these days. Rahul Dravid wears a smile even when you talk of the Greg (Chappell) effect

Chappell, you have to love or hate. Even if the Indian cricket coach says strategising is the same as experimenting

Dada, who lay low, returned to a winning team year-end

Estranged couple Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi. Now off, now on, now off again at Doha

Fathers were talking the walk, be it Bhupathi’s father who made those sharp comments about Paes’ “attitude” or Sania Mirza’s father defending his ward over her skirt

Gender was in question, after runner Santhi Soundarajan won the silver at Doha. The hormones debate continues

Heavyweight, that’s hockey’s KPS Gill who everybody agrees should go but nobody is willing to sack

Ironical India, while the economy booms, sporting is still fighting for priority

Justification, the Indian sports administration excels in. Including the appointment of an English coach, Bob Houghton, for the national soccer squad, though funds remain dry. Logic hard to beat

Kayoed. Lifters of India were banned for drug abuse and when the ban was lifted, the federation did not have the money to pay a huge $ 50,000 fine. Lifters in limbo, yet

Lost, good money after bad. Money lost on an account from the PILCOM era is the issue between former CAB chief Jagmohan Dalmiya and Sharad Pawar

Medals are coming by the dozens and thank the shooters.

Nandrolone. This year, Indian sport was infected with this performance enhancing banned drug. Across the border, it was Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammed Asif

Opulent is how you could under-describe the Indian cricket world, with a record billion dollars from TV deals

Patchy, you would say, was the loss to West Indies and the one-dayers in South Africa

Quirky Umpire Darrel’s hair-raising stunts had Pakistan baying for his blood

Rudderless Indian hockey is set to lose coach Vasudevan Baskaran and the IHF is thinking about a foreign hand

Shotgun Jaspal Rana is back with the fireworks at Doha

Trite was the comment from Malcolm Speed who said India was a very powerful cricketing nation, money-wise

Unexplained were the quick flights by athletes ahead of “secret” World Anti Doping Agency raids

Vanished. Rupaya, a national level fencer, went to Ireland and disappeared. Later, it was found that her partner was around in that country and she had sought asylum

Walk, don’t run. The Delhi Half-Marathon was a success, only there could have been more top-level performances

Xtreme fitness of things, sometimes. Sachin Tendulkar’s tennis elbow cured, Sehwag settles, Sreesanth discovered

Yuvraj versus Yuvraj drunken brawl

Zapped at the end of a year in Indian sports