On the eve of chennai wining the IPL third edition i got an intersting poem on the chennai super kings team. The poem is is written in tamil but for the sake of communication it is written with english text. Here it is:
Pooriku venum paani,
one man army Dhoni.
Singam erukuru edam Den,
Namma ooru singam Hayden.
Amma kU opposite naina,
best fielder Raina.
Vegetable la gethu Kathiri,
middle order gethu Badri.
Song mix panna DJ,
Shots mix panna Vijay.
Dts sound na Dolby,
All rounder na Albie.
Ingikku english la Ginger,
Batsman kku yaman na Bollinger.
Bike la best na Ducati,
Spin la Best na Jakati.
Namma Spinner Ashwin,
Avan pottalae namma Win.
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A modern day Poem on the Kings-not just Kings but on the super Kings
$240 million spent and the result ------ a flop show
Ronaldo had a largely frustrating night at the Bernabau
Florentino Pérez and Real Madrid spent $240 million in the summer hoping that Real Madrid can be at the Bernabau on the big day when the champions league final happens at Bernabau. But all their hopes were shattered by their bogey team Lyon. For the past few seasons Lyon have been a thorn in Real's european dream. If i remember correctly last season Real were battered by Lyon in the knockout stage. Atleast this season it was not the battering.
Its been 6 years since Real got past the first knock-out stage of the champions league.And all this time they looked absoultely irrestible on the attack and absoultely hopeless in defence, the trend continued this year too. They bought some world class talents in the attacking front but none in the defensive front and that has eventually led to their downfall in europe this season.
$240 million spent and what do they have to show to the world and their fans: well i would say nothing.
A humiliating loss to third tier side Alcorn in th King's cup, expected defeat in Europe in the first Knockout stage and a stumbling stroll to the first place in La liga after numerous slips from Barcelona. So there is no wrong in saying them as a flop show this season.
For me Real are never the same after Zidane's departure. From then they have lacked the Charisma at the Big stage and Yesterday's night proved to be another sad chapter in Real's history. Selengkapnya......
IPL becomes (NRI)PL
Ever since the Election commission of India announced the General election dates in india the IPL chief Mr. Lalit Modi is not having a good time. He has prepared three to four schedules for the season 2 of the League, so that it will be convenient for the states to stage the event. But unfortunately all his efforts went in vain with one state or another refusing for each schedule he came up with. At last a decision was made on Sunday,22nd March that the Grand event will be staged outside India.
This will be the first time that an India domestic tournament will be held outside India,making it a historic event. It may be fitting to call the event "NRI"PL, as some papers in India rightly Quoted. The two countries in the running to host the event are South Africa and England, but England seems to be the clear favorites among the board members as well as the Franchise owners.
Already few players have commented on IPL being taken outside event, The Master Blaster was quoted saying: "It will never be the same, no match will be a home game for any team."
Gambhir has said "We don't know who will support who?"
There are so many voices raised over this issue, let us see how this unfolds as time goes by.
New points system in F1
Well each year the FIA(the Formula one governing body) throws up a twist or two before the start of the season. In the previous seasons the twists came pretty early in the mix, during the winter breaks, but this time around the twist has come pretty late in the piece.
On tuesday FIA has announced that the F1 driver's championship for this year would be decided by the number of wins scored by the driver and not by number of points earned. IS this decision right??????
Well according to the new rule, say if a driver wins 7 races and in the rest of the races he didn't even finish, he would have got 70 points and there is another driver who won 2 races , finished in the podium in every other race, he would have scored loads of points but still he would come only second in the championship. Is this the way to reward consistency????? I wonder!!!!!!!!Will this rule make drivers more conservative??????// Drivers might target specific circuits to win the races rather than concentarting on the entire season........ WEll the first race is only a few days away, time will tell us the answers for all of our questions.
I don't know what prompted FIA to take this decision. IF this rule was there from the start of F1 champioship the F1 world would have senn lots of differrent champions. Senna wolud have been a quadraple world champion and last year his country man Felippe Massa would have won the world title and not Lewis hamilton.
I believe the FIA is trying desperately to make the sport interesting amidst all this financial crisis, but it is making the sport a bit more complicated and difficult to follw with changes every year.
Those Famous Sports SHIRTS
In sports fame is everything. A single sportsman's popularity can be gauged by the name and respect he gets all over the world. But how do you gauge a team's popularity????
Well there is one way to do that,it is said that a team's popularity can be reflected in large selling of their team's jerseys.. Well here is a list of teams whose jerseys are at the top of the pile...
Club Football in Europe--Manchester United:
English Premier League the most famous and perhaps the most competitive league in the world. In this One of the easily recognizable jerseys, Manchester United's Red is easily the biggest seller in the world.
Makers : Nike
Price: Rs.2745/-(INdian Rupees)
They are closely followed by the (Blues) Chelsea whose adiddas shirts are sold for Rs. 2999 and the Spanish giants Real Madrid come in as close third with the same price tag as the Blues.
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World Football- Brazil
The most romantic of the jerseys, Brazil's yellow is worn with pride by the followers of the beautiful game, everywhere in the world.
Makers: Nike
Price :$49
Edging them close are their neighbors Argentina. With Lionell Messi in full flow, the craze for the albaceliste will only go up.
Makers : Adidas
Price :$49
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NBA- Los Angeles Lakers
Legendary NBA team LA Lakers' home colour yellow is probably the most sought after basketball jersey any where in the world. And Kobe Bryant's number continues to sizzle and bring in tons of revenues for the makers.
Makers : Adidas
Price : $175
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Last but not least is the
Malliot jaune (my-yo-john)/Yellow Jersey-Cycling
The Yellow jersey , perhaps the most coveted jersey in the world of cycling gets its popularity during the race season. The yellow jersey is the jersey worn by the leader of many multi-stage bicycle races,most notably the Tour-De-France. It allows the riderwho was in the overall lead at the end of the previous day to be easily identified.
Personally, i love each and every one of these jerseys and the teams that wear it.
Carling cup Final- Match up
Its that time o the year where the cup competitions of all the major leagues in the world draw to a conclusion. Its the same in Britain, after all the rounds of action it has come down to this a match between the Last Year's Premiership Champions Manchester United and the CARLING cup holders Tottenham Hotspur.
Both clubs have had their hick ups in the cup, Manu beaten by Derby 1-0 in the first leg of the semifinal and then clinching the home leg 3-1 on Wednesday(21,Jan) and Tottenham had their own problems going to the brink of elimination in the group stages and even yesterday(22,JAN) in the match against Barnley (the GIANT killers of this season's carling cup). They some how managed to survive the scare and made it to Wembley. They narrowly escaped exit, after two late goals from Pavylechenko and Defoe in the 3-2 defeat to Burnely on Wednesday.
Now the stage is set and date is March 1,2009 for a mouth watering clash between two of the most entertaining teams of the premiership. But before that they are set to meet this weekend in the F.A. Cup fourth round and also in the premiership sometime soon.
Until then stay tuned.
The Auzzie tuzzle starts on Monday-19th of Jan
hey tennis geeks, the feast for you is almost ready to be served. Wondering what i'm talking about?
Its about the Auzzie open which kicks starts the grand slams this year on Monday. Coming into the auzzie open there are no clear cut favorites either in the men's section or in the women's section.
The men's game has seen lots of changes over the years and is continuing to see lots of changes even now. For the past four or five years the men's game was ruled by a man called Roger Federer full of grace, talent and natural ability with style, now he is forced out of his throne by the man Rafa equipped with shear power and determination. he has been ruling th courts for the past 3 or four months, but the start of the year has given a clear indicator that these two men's position are under severe threat by a certain man called Andy Murray, beating both these players to clinch the doha open title. The auzzie open will see all these three men in action competing for the first grand slam of the year along with the other usual suspects like Roddick, Djokovic, Tsonga and a few more.
Meanwhile in the women's section there are no cler cut favourites either, there is a tussle going on between the world nos. 1 and 2 Jankovic and Serena in off the court talks. They are up there competing for the title and also there is The beautiful, young and energetic Dinara safina and a few more of the usual suspects like Venus, etc.
but one thing is clear that the auzzie open cannot give us a clear indication of who will rule 2009 in tennis. the answer to that of course will unfold at a later stage of the season,until then we will enjoy the tennis!!!!!!!!!!!
Birth of an interesting era of cricket
The year 2008 has seen lots of lows in markets, fall of the BUSH kingdom, attack of terrorists on the posh hotels in MUMBAI and also this year can be considered as one of the most significant years in the history of world cricket. I say this because of the turn of events around the world in the cricket field. If we see the history of test cricket or one day cricket there will be only one team at its pick in a particular era. During the Bradman era Aussies were at the top and then the seventies belonged to the West indies and then after the mid eighties the Aussies captured the thrown and kept it for more than two decades.In his period of twenty years are so there has been many contenders for their thrown but no one was able to de-thrown them of their thrown. The Aussies were way ahead of the rest of the field and the rest of the world vied for the contender's spot only. Also during this period no team was able to match the consistency of the Aussies and were terrified or may be amazed at the way the Aussies played their cricket.
But 2008 has seen a change in proceedings ,teams like South Africa ,India and Sri lanka were not competing for the second spot but for the first sport with the Aussies, giving the true meaning for the word contenders. Australia were dethroned from their first spot by the Africans and India went a step ahead by defeating the Aussies 2-0 in the test series.The Aussies are no more invincible and are not seen fearful by the other teams. Its really a amazing and wonderful site for cricket lovers all over the world to see teams fight it out and also to see the monotony of single team dominating a period of cricket.
It will be rally intersting to watch the next major tournaments like mini world cup, The world cup itself, to see how these contenders perform and can they de-thrown the australian Dynasty.
Only time will tell!!!!!
M.S.Prakash
Proud to be an Indian
December 16th, a day that will be remembered as one of the greatest days in Indian racing history.The day in which Team India won its first race in A-1 by winning the feature race in china.After securing the first race win for India this is what Narain has to say: ‘The team has been working really hard at pit stop practices and they’ve done a really good job this weekend. Both the pit stops were excellent and we got ahead but unfortunately I got stuck behind Pakistan on my out lap so I couldn’t push but I came out just ahead of Jonny. There was a lot of pressure towards the end but then his tyres went off as well as mine and then we were equal - after that I just got the job done.’"
It was an excellent race with some brilliant defensive driving from the Indian ace and a nice tidy pit-stop set up the victory for Narain.Let us hope for the sake of Indian Pride that Narain drives well in next year's F-1 and gets a race seat in one of the leading constructors.
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