Hockey seems to have earned a reputation of being in the limelight for all the wrong reasons. The latest in the line is the resignation of women’s national coach M.K.

With Indian boxers sweating it out every day at the National Institute of Sports in Patiala in preparation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the slow pace of upgradation of the training venue there is proving to be an irritant.

With 96 days left for the Commonwealth Games, the training-cum-practice facility that is being developed adjacent to the Games Village is still under construction and chances of it getting ready by the revised July 31 deadline seem bleak.