Bystander Column | Mathrubhumi

A premier sporting event in the midst of a raging pandemic is never easy. But then ..

At the Rio Olympics in 2016, up and coming badminton star then P.V. Sindhu had raised hopes of emulating her senior colleague Saina ..

The New Year is just a few days away. Can 2021 prove lot more productive? Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Questions and questions ..

Camaraderie in sports can be a wonderful sight. Players jostling together and showing mutual trust and friendship, many say is the ..

Forget for the moment on whether K L. Rahul, the Indian opener, lost his script and cut a sorry figure in the first innings of the ..

Nobody would have expected a deluge of medals for India in the Asian Games in Jakarta. Nor would anyone have thought that there would ..

Years ago when Indian football remained much the same with little to foresee but raise lot of noise within the country of hopes and ..

Ironies never cease in sports. The current World Cup in Russia is proving another arena where this statement is getting even more strongly ..

Step aside cricket, it is time for football, always acknowledged the world over as the most popular sport in the universe. The World ..

In the end it seemed a perfect finish to a thriller. A team that had been suspended for two years, Chennai Super Kings returned to ..

These are perhaps refreshing times in Indian football. The sport has been receiving a lot of positve vibes and understandably. The ..

Years ago when India was on the threshold of launching a professional league in football, the Asian Football Confederation organised ..

Cricketing great Dilip Vengsarkar is not one who indulges in stray talk, so one thought. The man is generally known to be careful with ..

The other day social media had carried what to many a sportsperson and sports fan must have been an unnacceptable sight. It was a picture ..

It was only the other day that the legend Roger Federer after winning his 20th Grand Slam at the Australian Open said in a voice choked ..

2018 is round the corner and as the old year slowly slips away into history, the New Year beckons sports persons with fresh dreams, ..

The happenings in the past few days have been a revelation for Indian football. First, the senior team being moulded into a strong ..

We often hear, and more often now, that sports is very much an entertainment like any other in the genre say movies or stage plays ..

Indian cricket's chief selector M S K Prasad can be a good narrator. As a national cricketer once for a short period, he may not ..

Over 300 sixes and perhaps many more times that number in boundaries, not to speak of the close singles and braces, the shrewd bowling, ..