The school is just a stone’s throw away from the Indian Squash Academy (ISA) and the thought that struck Mr Ghai and members of the Trust was why not introduce squash in the school and help spot talents who could rise up the ladder in sports too? Coincidentally, this was also the vision of Mr N. Ramachandran, the Patron of the Squash Rackets Federation of India and the man behind the formation of the ISA....
Known in French as “a place of radiance,” owing to its abundant sunshine and usually cloudless skies, Oran has been under curfew since mid-May after weeks of total lockdown. Camus, who would later win the Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote just after World War II about a silent epidemic in the city that killed the high and the low, often unpredictably. “Today we face an invisible enemy,” said professor Lellou Salah, president of the Scientific Council of the University of Science and Technology of the Oran-Mohamed-Boudiaf Hospital, where he studies tuberculosis....
For some restive franchisees, the last straw was the recent departure of Burger King’s CEO, Dennis Malamatinas, who left through the revolving door in the company’s executive suite to join a dot-com. Now Burger King is searching for its seventh CEO in 11 years. It is also likely to replace its advertising agency, Lowe Lintas & Partners. Sales at established U.S. stores have been down. the first half of this year, thanks in part to a limp ad campaign featuring the less than memorable slogan “Got the urge?...
President Bush nominates Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court. A former Yale classmate of Anita Hill’s calls Nan Aron, a Thomas opponent, and suggests that Thomas sexually harassed Hill. Aron relays the tip to the staff of Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, a Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. A Metzenbaum aide telephones Hill and mentions rumors of sexual harassment, but Hill makes no allegations. An aide to Sen. Ted Kennedy asks Hill similar questions....
A is for Age Fraud: The beautiful game has been ravaged deep in the grassroots level by age fudging for decades. It has become a matter of high priority for FIFA and the FIFA Medical Assessment and Research Centre (F-MARC) to ensure that this does not affect the tournament. However, we list down as to how to protest against age cheating. B is for Ball: The official match ball for the tournament is the Krasava....
It’s all about the spectacle when Boras speaks publicly. He’s excellent at his job, and that means advocating for his clients at every turn. Often, though, that means saying some things that don’t quite add up.MORE: Johnny Cueto and his many suitors | Stephen Strasburg recently had surgery So, what did Boras say on Wednesday, and what words require some further examination? Let’s sift through the reports of the media members who took part in the Great Boras Huddle in Boca Raton....
A man shared his latest vet experience with his cat, and it could be the sweetest thing you’ll see all day. It’s unclear if the poster on Reddit is really the man who owns the cat—or even the other way around. The short video was first uploaded to Gfycat.com and later shared on Reddit. It shows a sweet cat laying nervously on a vet table before creeping its way over to the owner....
Huang’s mistake may have been to place himself in the vanguard of two emergent forces in China–civic action and the Internet. Since official resources are limited, Beijing tolerates and even praises private efforts to locate ordinary missing persons. But authorities strongly discourage anyone asking too many questions about people who have gone missing in sensitive cases–those involving political dissent or the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, for instance–because almost inevitably they’ve been detained without trial....
Running our society demands a lot of boring jobs. And who does them? Exotic rock stars? Flamboyant politicians? Glib TV-talk-show hosts? No, it’s the accountants. store managers, computer programmers, the middle ranks at banks and public utilities. Very often these people are BMCWM. Our path to being boring probably began when men in power decided to create a smoke screen of normalcy to hide the noxious things they were doing....
The star wide receiver, who has yet to play this season because of an ankle injury, will miss the Bengals’ matchup with the Steelers in Pittsburgh and there’s still no timetable for his return, coach Zac Taylor told reporters Tuesday. “I don’t expect him to practice this week,” Taylor said, via Cincinnati.com. “I guess that would be the update. He continues to make good progress on the rehab field. I really hate to make a prediction on what his timeline is....
Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Derrick Goold reported Friday night that the 38-year-old catcher were working out a contract with the Cardinals, who are without injured star Yadier Molina and are looking for a better stopgap than Tony Cruz and George Kottaras. Those reports were confirmed on Saturday. Rosenthal and Goold reported that Pierzynski traveled to Chicago, where the Cardinals are playing the Cubs in a weekend series, and would join the team Saturday....
As Harang's pitch count increased on a chilly evening, it seemed doubtful manager Fredi Gonzalez would let him go the distance. Harang worked around six walks, including two in the sixth inning and another pair in the seventh. Harang (3-1) left for a pinch hitter during a long, four-run eighth. He was never in the on-deck circle — the decision had already been made that he was done. MORE: Mets trade Ike Davis to Pirates | MLB scoreboard...
The 37-year-old needs two touchdown passes to equal Joe Flacco’s record for the most consecutive postseason games with at least two passing touchdowns in NFL history. Rodgers, the bookmakers’ favorite to be named NFL MVP this season, has thrown for at least two touchdowns in his last seven playoff appearances, dating back to a 35-18 win against Washington in the Wild Card Round of the 2015 season. Hall of Famers Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw and New Orleans Saints star Drew Brees are the only other quarterbacks to have put together at least two touchdown passes in seven consecutive playoff games....
Aaron Rodgers’ last two offseasons with the Packers have been nothing short of eventful. Trade requests, trading jabs with the front office, and a reported impending split resulted in … a brand new contract that will lock Rodgers in Green Bay for the next few seasons, presumably, through the end of his career. Rodgers cashed in big on his back-to-back MVP seasons with a big bag of cash from Green Bay....
The Packers quarterback teamed up with Bryson DeChambeau to face off against the pairing of Tom Brady and Phil Mickelson in “The Match 4” on Tuesday afternoon. While the fairway is different from the gridiron, Rodgers demonstrated an innate ability to wiggle out of tough situations. When asked who’s going to be under center for Packers vs. Bears this year, Rodgers provided a total, complete non-answer, proving wholly unsatisfactory for those of us begging for any bit of update on his situation with the Packers....
Green Bay racked up 205 yards and nine first downs in the first half. The team kept the ball moving frequently against a porous Detroit defense. However, the Packers couldn’t find success in the red zone. That was largely thanks to poor play from their quarterback, Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers has typically been one of the NFL’s best red-zone quarterbacks during his career. But against the Lions, he sputtered badly near the goal line and threw two interceptions that denied the Packers scoring opportunities....
The South African legend and Kohli formed the backbone of RCB’s batting for nearly a decade in the IPL. The partnership eventually came to an end after the former announced his retirement from all forms of cricket in November last year. On the RCB podcast, the former Proteas skipper opened up about his relationship with Kohli and said: De Villiers ended his IPL career with 5162 runs in 184 matches at an average of 39....
In a separate chapter titled “All-Rounder”, de Villiers talks about the various sports be played before becoming an international cricket star. Before talking about them in detail however, he lists down each and every rumour that was stated on the internet, and shoots them down one by one. Sky Sports had published an online article on 28 February 2015, describing de Villiers as ‘cricket’s record-breaking all-rounder’, listing a number of achievements, which are actually false....
One of the newly elected Vice Presidents of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and BCCI joint secretary, Anurag Thakur, praised BCCI’s contribution in building sporting infrastructure in the country. Thakur said, “BCCI gave Rs 50 crore to the sports ministry. But it was not used properly. Some money was given to Jammu and Kashmir government and PT Usha (for her academy).” “Thousands and crores have been spent on building stadiums like Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and others....
