Still in the same sport, a junior team toured Chinese Taipei recently and is reported to have visited night clubs and indulged in heavy drinking bouts. In fact there had been no discipline at all on that tour. Now that the team has returned to the island officials at home are keen to know details [...]

The Sunday Times Sri Lanka

MUM’S THE WORD

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Still in the same sport, a junior team toured Chinese Taipei recently and is reported to have visited night clubs and indulged in heavy drinking bouts. In fact there had been no discipline at all on that tour. Now that the team has returned to the island officials at home are keen to know details about the tour but the officials who had accompanied the team are keeping ‘mum’, and cannot be contacted even!

USING RUGBY POWERS

Now that rugby season is hotting up teams are looking out for outstanding players who could give a boost to their sides. Involved in this set-up is a former player, who is now a top notch politician who is dead keen to see that that the side that he is interested triumphs. In fact he is using all his powers to get a certain player to be included in an up country team just to make sure that the side he is interested in will win the plum.

UNDER A CLOUD

A certain lady who is holding a key post in a very popular sports body is under a heavy cloud these days as she had carried out certain transactions to the tune of Rs. 80 Million without calling for Tenders. In fact she had been a top player during her playing days and she had done all these transactions with two officers who own a sports shop.

SOWING BAD SEEDS?

Word has spread that a certain principal of a leading school has been running around giving information to the Top Man in Sports about a workshop held in Thailand. Most of the heads of schools had attended the meeting but this particular head of school had avoided it, for unknown reasons. Is he trying to sow some bad seeds between these officials and the Top Man?

NO DRUGS NO MUSCLES

The body that is in charge of sports has received a report from doctors who have been keeping a close watch on the muscled types. The report states that almost all who are involved in this game are heavily addicted to drugs. It looks as if there are no drugs, there are no muscles.

WARMING HIS SEAT

The controlling body for sports in the island held a meeting among all sports bodies to access situations and to plan out for the New Year. Amongst them and seated at the Head Table was a top official, also belonging to international sports. When the Big Man in Sports asked this official what he had done during the past year it surfaced that he had done nothing and had been only warming his seat! Earlier this official had been a king-pin in a racquets game.

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