Why do we love to hate Mr. Zardari? Mian Nawaz Sharif says that he is dismayed and disappointed. The PML-N feels cheated over the fact that despite an agreement between the two parties, Mr. Zardari let them down. For his part, Asif Zardari says that the conditions in which the agreement was signed changed soon […]
Bush Labor Dept. Secretly Writes Rule on Worker Exposure to Toxins
For seven and a half years, the Bush administration has delayed and sometimes just refused to act on workplace safety and health rules that could save lives and prevent serious injuries. Had the administration acted on those stalled rules, it may have prevented the deaths of 13 workers in a Georgia sugar plant explosion in […]
Old-fashioned Football
On May 24th, 2008, a game of soccer was played in New Westminster, British Columbia that was like no other the spectators had seen before. The two teams involved were Sapperton Rovers and Royal City Club Coaches. The game commemorated a match played 146 years earlier in 1862, which had been the first […]
Indian hockey has lacked ‘visionary administrators’
If anything, the fact that the Indian team made it to the final of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup tournament in Ipoh on Sunday only underlines that the fact that Indian hockey has been never short on talent, but lacked visionary administrators. Despite the chaos in the recent week and the subsequent suspension of the […]
Brian Lara retired for playing cricket
The West Indies team as lost a legend. Legendary batsman Brian Lara is now retired at the age of 38. Just in case persons are thinking that he was forced out of the West Indies team, speaking at a function in Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board which was held in his honor, he said "I […]
Olympic Sized Failure
Somewhere in Monterrey Ricardo Lavolpe must be laughing his ass off. Hugo Sánchez is getting a double dose of what his ego laid out when he lobbied for the Mexican national team job well over two years ago. Photo Courtesy ESPNDeportes "Hey, at least I won some type of title," guffaws Lavolpe. He follows that […]