The Sri Lankan cricket board in association with 20th Century Fox has released a DVD covering the whining exploits of Lankan captain Kumara Sangakkara. The limited edition DVDs will be available only in South Asia and will showcase the whining ways of the Lankan skipper in a way the world not seen before. Read the full srory here...  ...

Not many would have heard of the Nenets who inhabit the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic Circle between the Kara Sea and the Gulf of Ob. I too hadn’t until I came across a feature on them in Geographical, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society of UK. The 120,000 square kilometres peninsula is one of the world’s last remaining wildernesses which for a thousand years or more has been home for ...

Painful: the final. Football pundits are lauding the "efficiency" of the spanish team. "Best one touch passing game" is perhaps the most widely used term for the spanish team. Best midfielders in teh world in Xavi Iniesta and Xabi Alonso. Best forwards in Villa and Torres. everything about this spanish team is the best!! total number of goals scored by Spain : 8 (lowest ever. Second lowest is 11 b...

The prediction of 2 year old Paul the Octopus about Spain's win the World Cup finals on Sunday has chanced to be correct along with earlier predictions about the fate of Germany. On the other hand, 13 year old Mani, the Parrot, had  predicted match results against Spain from Singapore. It had  predicted all the four quarter finals succesfully including Spain to beat Germany. It failed to score in...

  The official anthem of FIFA World Cup at the opening ceremony was sung by Colombian pop star Shakira. She along with other artists also performed at a concert took place a day before the opening,   She is going to perform for the closing ceremony too. Paul the Octopus has become an on-line craze with six right  predictions as Germany lost against Spain in the second Semifinals of FIFA. On the ...

Paul the Octopus has become an on-line craze with six  right  predictions as Germany lost against Spain in the second Semifinals of FIFA. Its lastest prediction is in favour of Spain to win in the finals. The fans of Spain's team are looking for the final match with throbing hearts. Paul’s accuracy is being put to test once again today for the  final match of FIFA. Everyone is going to be on the t...

John Isner of the US and Nicolas Mahut played a marathon tennis at Wimbledon. We can expect, after a few years, the US guy by tradition, will disclose to us that they actually cheated us, like Agassy did last year.  ...

2010 FIFA World Cup Schedule        Portugal vs. North Korea  - 21 Jun 5:00pm (India Time)  Chile vs. Switzerland  - 21 Jun 7:30pm (India Time)  Spain vs. Honduras  - 22 Jun 12:00am (India Time)  Mexico vs. Uruguay  - 22 Jun 7:30pm (India Time)  France vs. South Africa  - 22 Jun 7:30pm (India Time)  Nigeria vs. South Korea  - 23 Jun 12:00am (India Time)  Greece vs. Argentina  - 23 Jun 12:00am (In...

BCCI decided not to participate in Asian Games due to their earlier business commitments. This news surprised me. My second thought corrected me, why surprised? It was on air since IPL took over the control of this wonderful sport. The message is, Cricket in India is no more a sport; it is a mere entertainment, like the bollywood movies. Like a beautifully choreographed item number, it entertai...

  Germany vs. Australia  - 14 June 12:00am (India Time)  Netherlands vs. Denmark  - 14 June 5:00pm (India Time)  Japan vs. Cameroon  - 14 June 7:30pm (India Time)  Italy vs. Paraguay  - 15 June 12:00am (India Time)  New Zealand vs. Slovakia  - 15 June 5:00pm (India Time)  Côte d’Ivoire vs. Portugal  - 15 June 7:30pm (India Time)  Brazil vs. North Korea  - 16 June 12:00am (India Time) Latest result...

Results: June 12 Argentina 1 : 0 Nigeria      South Korea 2 : 0 Greece     Uruguay 0 : 0 France      South Africa 1 : 1 Mexico      Upcoming matches : India Time   England vs. United States   - 13 June at 12:00am   Algeria vs. Slovenia   - 13 June at 5:00pm    Serbia vs. Ghana   - 13 June at 7:30pm    Germany vs. Australia   - 14 June at 12:00am       ...

The FIFA-2010 soccer tournament is the culmination of a qualification process that began in August 2007 and involved 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams. This is the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation. The 2010 FIFA World Cup facts are as follows. ·          It is the 19th FIFA World Cup tournament.   ·          It is being held in South Africa. ·          It be...

2010 FIFA World Cup: 11 June     Uruguay  0  :  0  France       South Africa  1  :  1  Mexico              Upcoming matches:  INDIA TIME   South Korea  vs.  Greece        12 Jun 5:00pm    Argentina  vs.  Nigeria            12 Jun 7:30pm    England  vs.  United States     13 Jun 12:00am    Algeria  vs.  Slovenia              13 Jun 5:00pm    Serbia  vs.  Ghana                  13 Jun 7:30pm    G...

At the opening ceremony (Friday, June-11) of Soccer World Cup-2010, the cooking pot like stadium in South Africa got filled with the vuvuzela-horn's drone-like sound symbolyzing triumph. Here is a limerick on the situation. FIFA has began with fan-n-fare, Vuvuzelas' sound filled the air. Like big bee buzz 'N a teaming fuzz. In South Africa, it's football fair....

It is world cup football fever once again. The world is focused to those seven stadiums in SA. It is really amazing to see that all other issues in the whole world are sidelined for this world cup extravaganza. I think, the height of Commercialization has reached its extremes and can’t go any further. The brains behind this very successful professionalism are to be admired. The media brings out ...