Pragada: Batter up
The Oxford Blues women’s cricket team meets in a small gym with green rubber floors, not much larger than a basketball court. The coach is speaking to the team, running ...
Every leaderboard has a story
May 5, 2016: “Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri takes early lead with 66 at the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow.” It seemed almost unprecedented to read something of this sort. ...
Fugel: Elegy for a batsman
Watching this Sunday’s Super Bowl, I was shocked by the vehemence of the insults that flew through the room as the game unfolded. “Kill him,” yelled one admittedly hammered Patriots ...
Taylor: Cricket match epitomizes fair play
The idea of sportsmanship, as opposed to gamesmanship, often seems like a nostalgic dream from the early days of amateur sports — not really relevant to today’s win-at-all-costs professional mentality. ...
Sawhney: Nature of sports requires a winner
Sports are, at their very core, about competition. In every sport ever conceived, the general idea is for one person or group to compete against another person or group to ...
Taylor: Ties allow for more intrigue
After a scoreless game against Duke in 1953, Navy football coach Eddie Erdelatz said, "A tie is like kissing your sister." Now, if Jerry Springer has taught me anything, it ...