India has never played a single match in the history of world cup soccer. Yet about 44.4 million Indians watched the 2006 world cup held in Germany. This number is expected to grow by about 35% this year. The numbers of viewers are very high considering that a vast majority of Indians still do not [...]
One of my pleasures in life is to sit on my deck on a warm summer day and watch my favorite baseball team (Philadelphia Phillies) play on television. This gets even better when you have a cool lager in your hand (in the Philadelphia area a Lager by default means a Yuengling Lager which is [...]
Steve Waugh said today that Sachin Tendulkar is a great batsman but Don Bradman is the greatest. I am a fan of cricket and of baseball. Both these games are related (Baseball is an offshoot of Cricket) and use similar terminologies. Both are summer games and in both cases tradition plays an important factor. In [...]
India is a nation that has about 1.1 billion people. It goes without saying that many of them are fanatical cricket fans including me. In the past few years India is also clearly the economic engine that drives the world of cricket. So why is that a test match against South Africa, which is a [...]
In the West when we meet somebody we invariably shake hands and say hello. In addition there will also be a brief exchange of pleasantries (How is it going? Nice to see you, you look good today etc.). I always found it very strange why individuals who meet each other every day have to express [...]
Yesterday was the eagerly anticipated beginning of the football season (The National Football League (NFL)). All the teams in the country played a game except the Pittsburg Steelers (the defending Super Bowl champions) and the Tennessee Titans who played a game against each other on Thursday. For most of the season (the season ends with [...]
Caster Semenya is an 18 year old runner from South Africa. She won the 800 meters at the 12th IAAF World Championships held in Berlin in August. She set a world record of 1 minute and 55.45 seconds. Before the championships Semenya was asked by the federation to take a gender test. The federation allowed [...]
