The start of FIFA World Cup in Russia has one’s again initiated a debate about who is the best player of our generation – Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo ? Both have been prolific scorers for their respective countries and clubs. Both have won the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for equally 5 times each. Both […]
Roger Federer : the greatest tennis player of all time
Roger Federer the 36 year old Swiss tennis genius has made a great come-back recently when he became the world number 1 in men’s single tennis rankings. He become the oldest world number one beating the record of Andre Agassi who held the top spot at age 33 years in 2003. Federer has won record […]
Lionel Messi: the destiny child of football
Messi was born in the town of Rosario about 180 miles northwest of Buenos Aires the capital of Argentina. His father worked at a steel plant outside town. As a boy he was gifted athletically, but ill. He was diagnosed with a growth-hormone deficiency that required daily injections, and a costly treatment of $900-per-month which […]
Stars are favoring India to create history at Rio Olympics
There was a time when Olympic Games for India meant only about Hockey. From 1928 to 1956 India had won 6 Olympic gold medals consecutively in men’s hockey. But in other sports we were starving for medals. In men’s hockey the last Olympic gold was won in 1980 Moscow Olympic were most of the good […]
Sachin Tendulkar: the God of Indian cricket
(Note: This article of mine was appeared in the December 2015 issue of The Planets and Forecast Magazine ) Sachin Tendulkar is a name which needs no introduction. He was widely regarded as the best batsman in the world during his cricketing career spanning nearly two decades and for his fan all over the world, […]