With Indian hockey going through a period of major change, there are several issues that need to be resolved.
It will be a battle of Indian skills against Korean speed when the two take to the field in the title clash of the junior Asia Cup hockey here on Friday.
KPS Gill came, attended the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) council meeting and he went, with no comments.
With the ongoing Junior Asia Cup hockey tournament going largely unnoticed, a miffed Sports Minister MS Gill on Thursday lashed out at the public broadcaster Doordarshan for ignoring the event, while lamenting that the private channels too have got their priorities wrong.
India will play neighbours Pakistan in their opening match of the ICC Women's World Cup to be held in Australia from March 7-22 next year.
Former Olympians, including triple hockey gold medallist Balbir Singh, has expressed their gratitude to Sports Minister MS Gill for his decision to double the sports pension.
New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has begun the search for national coach John Bracewell's successor nine months before his contract expires.
Serbia's Olympic soccer team coach Miroslav Djukic threatened to quit if he cannot take the best players available to next month's Beijing Games.
Just days ahead of the home Test series against India, spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan got the confidence booster as he was chosen for Sri Lanka's 'Most Outstanding Sportsman of the Year award'. President Mahinda Rajapakse honoured Muralitharan the award at a glittering function here last night.
South Africa coach Mickey Arthur says his team will live up to its billing as world No 2 when they face England in the second match of their four-Test series at Headingley on Friday.
Harbhajan Singh does not doubt mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis' potentials but the star off-spinner believes it is old trickster Muttiah Muralitharan who would pose bigger threat for the Indian batsmen in the forthcoming Test series.
Defending drivers world champion Kimi Raikkonen of Finland is hoping the weather forecasts are wrong this weekend and that Germany will be bathing in warm sunshine and not heavy rain.
Top seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi could not recreate their old chemistry and crashed out of the Indianapolis tennis championship with a first round defeat.
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) stoutly denied any move to replace former captain Hashan Tillakaratne from the post of national team's manager for the upcoming home series against India.
Four bats signed by cricket great Sir Donald Bradman have been stolen from a sports venue in the far northern city of Darwin.
Andrew Flintoff, set to play his first test in 18 months on Friday when England face South Africa in the second test at Headingley, is relishing a new beginning and believes his best years are still ahead of him.
Ask the Sri Lankan manager, former Test player Hashan Tillakaratne, for permission to speak to Ajantha Mendis and he makes a face that gives the impression that the words spoken in English have turned Latin by the time they reached his ears.
A business executive who was scheduled to be an Olympic torch bearer in central China has been disqualified amid charges he was involved in an illegal capital raising scam, state media reported on Thursday.
The IHF ad-hoc committee will have an "informal discussion" with the FIH delegation on Thursday. The delegation includes president Els van Breda Vriesman, secretary-general Peter Cohen, director general Christophe Troendle, events director Hans Jochen Erb, consultant Bob Davidzon, World Cup 2010 chairman Andre Boiluis and the Asia chief development officer Tayyab Ikram.
First, the obvious - India versus Pakistan is not just another match, under any circumstance, at any level.
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