Pune FC’s saving grace
During the pre-season transfer this year, 21-year-old Shahinlal Meloly, from Kakkodi in Kozhikode, had an ambitious career-twist when he signed up for Pune FC.
Since then and until five days ago, he
Gen Next cricket team on a roll
Talk about fresh blood — guts, temperament and fighting spirit — and you hear it loud and clear in the war cry sounded by Kerala’s Gen Next cricketers in South Africa, a battle field unconquered even
A toast to Jimmy’s bronze volley
This October is special for Indian volleyball. Even as we nurse the wounds inflicted on the national side by a loss to Japan in the fifth place playoffs in Asian Championship, this month marks 25 yea
Kerala’s new breed of hockey women
It is evening at the south end of UC College and a group of girls, draped in fresh pink jerseys are playing hockey, a game that has traditionally been their strength and identity for over two-and-a-ha
Prasanth sparkles in South Africa
The arrival of the IPL in Kochi was a beacon of hope for several professional cricketers in the State and one amongst them was a Thiruvananthapuram boy, Prasanth Padmanabhan who did well enough at the
Dreams for a change
The plight of Kochi Tuskers Kerala has certainly dampened the prospect of Kerala gen next cricketers but custodian of the sport in the state asserts that IPL was never the final destination as far as
Understanding his opponents
At five, he learned the card game his elders were playing just by watching them. But, when teachers started complaining about the tiny tot bringing spades and hearts into kindergarten, Sukumaran and R
Veterans light up the courts
It was almost two-and-a-half decades back that he first won the sub-junior title in the state championship at the Udyogamangal courts, but Jaison Xavier was as chirpy as ever when he came out to play
Aussie Matricciani all set for I-league
Chirag United Kerala’s new recruit, Michael Matricciani, arrived in Kerala on Monday and with him comes the grace of Italian football and the passion of Australia’s soccer.
The 25-year-old striker of
Shuttlers take big steps
The badminton academy in the Regional Sports Centre in Kochi has added yet another feather to its cap. Shyam Prasad, a teenage prodigy, has become the seventh shuttler to have risen from the academy t