ISSN: 1391 - 0531
Sunday April 27, 2008
Vol. 42 - No 48
Sports

And then what happened?

Now the customs have levied a daunting one million rupee fine on the 3500 footballs that was brought down from Norway by an NGO as a gift. Now the NGO has requested the sports minister to pay the fine to get the footballs released.

Leg umpire
The umpire who was standing against the will of both opposing teams in a mercantile match was made to stand as the leg umpire during its entire proceedings they say.

He is my favourite
When there were ‘gold’ medal winners in the waiting, who spent Rs750,000/- to send the ‘bronze’ winning long distance runner to Kenya. Is he so powerful?

Who gets the final nod?
Is it true that the person with fewer qualifications has obtained the approval to manage our women to the Asia cup from the Ministry of Sport when the right candidate is languishing?

The talking point
The saving of Jani has become the talking point at the ministry. Even if the minister has said that he is planning to forward an appeal, they say it will only end up with another foreign jaunt to that lawyer.

 
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