- Nick Saban: How much does the highest paid public official in the world help society?
Nick Saban, the head football coach for The University of Alabama, will make make more than $11 Million in 2017. This makes him probably the highest paid public official is not a legislator or head of state, without taki…
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- Iceland, a country with the population of 334.000, just qualified for the Football World cup
Iceland, with 334,000 people, is the smallest country by population to ever qualify. The country's football is on an upswing. Iceland made it to the quarter finals of Euro 2016, where they lost to France. Iceland's natio…
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- Eight Times India Came In Fourth In The Olympics
Here are the eight examples of Indian sportspersons coming in fourth and missing out of a bronze medal in the Olympic games:
Dipa Karmakar at the 2016 Olympics in Rio (Gymnastics)
Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna at t…
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- 2 reasons why shooting isn't a sport
Shooting and Gold are not much unlike. Two reasons why shooting is not 'proper' sports (or, two reasons why there is no sports revolution underway in India):
1. Shooting is not a physical activity, unless you count brea…
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- Satnam Singh Bhamara: Not quite India's Yao Ming
Sports magazines primary deal in making legends. Currently, one of their project is an Indian freak (and one means that in a good way) -Satnam Singh Bhamara a 7-foot-2-inch Punjabi farmer's son. The kid's mother is 6 fee…
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- 5 young cricketers who died in road accidents
More young cricketers have died in road accidents than of other causes. One is sure that is also the sad case in other sports. West Indian cricketer Runako Morton, who died in a car crash on March 4 is the latest casualt…
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- 7 Things We Must Never Forget About the Delhi Commonwealth Games
I write this as the closing ceremony of the 2010 Commonwealth Games is on the television. One look at that idiotic, obscenely costly aerostat (Helium balloon) and you want to put some people before a firing squad.
A …
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- The Indian Sports Regulator: An idea whose time has come
Fans of sports in India must not be deluded into thinking the government will clean up the muck inside the super-rich cricketing establishment in India. For that, we need the government to enact something like the Sports…
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- What are your Top Indian Sporting Achievements of All Time?
Lists of bests are subjective affairs. In my case, I will vote for sporting activities that the masses of my country can play - football, cricket, hockey, chess, athletics or badminton.
Recently, the All Sports magaz…
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- The Unemployment Olympics
The Unemployment Olympics was organized by a laid-off computer programmer in New York so that the unemployed could have fun with tools of capitalists. The event shown in the picture is the phone toss competition.
Via …
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