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Alastair Cook — An Appreciation
December 6, 2012, 1 Comment

Watching Alastair Cook bat can be tiresome and fun in equal measure. Tiresome because his modus operandi—usually—is ...

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Save Test Match Cricket
November 13, 2012, No Comments

Test match cricket returned this past week after a gap of a little over three months in which we were treated mostly to ...

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Tennis at the Olympics and Murray’s gigantic mental step
August 5, 2012, 1 Comment

How many of you remember that Nicolas Massu won gold in men’s singles tennis at the 2004 Olympics in Athens? Unless yo ...

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Olympics Basketball Lookahead
July 23, 2012, No Comments

Basketball was always a big deal in the Olympics, but in 1992 the landscape of the sport at this mega event changed fore ...

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Federer achieves perfection
July 11, 2012, 3 Comments

It’s 30-30, 5-6 in the second set, of the Wimbledon final. Andy Murray plants his second serve to Roger Federer’s ba ...

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From “A History of the Present”: The History of Lukas Rosol
July 2, 2012, No Comments

[Lukas Rosol may have made an inglorious exit from Wimbledon but not before stunning Rafael Nadal and making Christopher ...

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King James’ Coronation
June 24, 2012, No Comments

The NBA, basketball’s biggest and best league in the world has held competition for more than 60 years. And in each of ...

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Nadal tweaks tactics to overcome the Djokovic barrier
June 13, 2012, 4 Comments

It started at the Indian Wells final in March 2011. Novak Djokovic, having recently won his second grand slam title, was ...

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Euro 2012 — on France, Carrick and Spain
May 28, 2012, 3 Comments

The upcoming 2012 European Championships at Poland and Ukraine is just a over week away. Here is a quick glance at Franc ...

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Reminiscing about Pep — A retrospective on Guardiola and his team, 60 years from today
April 28, 2012, 5 Comments

The man is sitting with his back slightly hunched on the edge of a black easy chair in his home in the Nilgiris Hills in ...