Category: Sports
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Beauty, In Slow-Mo
It seems to be a season of retirement for my favourite players. First Agassi, then Schumacher, and now Riquelme. Anyways, here is a small tribute to the greatest midfielder of our times. I must confess right at the start that I have an extremely soft spot for Argentine players. Right from Maradona and Batistuta to…
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Desicritics, F1 and MS
I am now a part of Desicritics.org and will henceforth be cross posting sports related posts there. My first post on the Sunday Moza F1 race is up there. Check it out. Also this is the first post using the MS Live Writer. Hope this works 🙂
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Stuff that legends are made of!!
What is it with Tour De France and superhuman people and superhuman performances? Why do people suffering from excruciating pain (read Landis) or ones with near death experiences (read Armstrong) keep winning it? I mean why can’t a normal guy win it, in a normal way. This Landis chap, in lead till stage 15, goes…
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Start saying your prayers!!
F1 chief Max Mosley has announced that from 2008 onwards, now hold your breath, Microsoft (yeah, you read it right, Microsoft) will be the official supplier of engine control units. Now that takes the word “crashing” to a whole new level. Doesn’t it!! Also, going by Microsoft’s record the 2008 season may well begin in…
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Four Greats. One Great Weekend!!!
The exit of Argentina from the Football World Cup 2006 meant that my interest in it was over and I focused again on the other two sports I love. Cricket and F1. And interesting stuff happened in both over the weekend. In F1, the US Grand Prix brought a sense of deja vu as only…