Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Latest Sports Buzz

Latest Sports Buzz

Indian Hockey Team could achieve Olympic medal in London Olympics 2012

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 03:16 AM PST

Chief Coach Jose Brasa told that in near future i.e. 2012, the present hockey team of Indian has got the capability to achieve some great results.

As in London Olympics 2012, this could only happen with the upgrading training system, as training is the backbone of achievements in Olympics.

Looking 80 years back record, in 2008, Beijing Olympics, this is for the very first time, India missed medals in hockey.

Indian hockey team is capable of winning a sure-shot medal in Olympics. But qualified trained professionals are needed to train them to do so.

Upgraded training facilities should be given to the team, which includes enough support staff, modern equipments to play, proper scheduled programme & sports psychologists too.

Before going to Spain, as Coach Jose Brasa's contract expires on Tuesday, he told that upgraded training for Indian Hockey Team is not available at present.

Brasa expressed that if Indian hockey team maintains the same kind of form, then they can win against any team, i.e. the way they played hockey in Delhi Common Wealth Games & then later on in Guangzhou Asian Games. Indian Hockey Team won over Pakistan team & England.

It's a strong gut feeling that same team players can win over qualifiers. So it's clear that team cannot just win over qualifiers, it can also win & grab medals too, if proper training is given to them in 2 coming years, before 2012 Olympics.

Brasa's recommendations to national coach Harendra Singh is to pull out his resignation & remain with the team. After Asian Games in Malaysia, when India didn't yield much, Harendra resigned.

Harendra must give re-thought to his decision & rejoin the team. Harendra's attitude is perfectly right & he awesomely understands the team.

Brasa happily expressed that he had some cherishing memories with Indian Hockey team, as on ground team members would shout in Indian language, words like ‘piche hatoo’, ‘udharr bandaa bheejo’.

Moreover from that, Brasa found Indian crowd to be the best he have seen in his lifetime. He told that he had never seen such kind of support from the crowd even in Olympics.

It's a strong gut feeling that same team players can win over qualifiers. So it's clear that team cannot just win over qualifiers, it can also win & grab medals too, if proper training is given to them in 2 coming years, before 2012 Olympics.

Marquez-Pacquiao rivalry scorches

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 01:25 AM PST

Juan Manuel Marquez has thrown open a rematch challenge to Manny Pacquiao after the former retained his lightweight title against Michael Katsidis in a ninth round TKO.

30 year old Australian challenger, Katsidis threw a nasty look at the 37 year old Marquez, to which the latter retorted with a blow out of 52-5-1, 37 Kos earning him the victory.

In 2004, Marquez had faced his sole draw against Pacquio which was quite a controversy.

The titans had clashed for the featherweight title, which Marquez managed to retain after surviving Pacquiao's lashing. Marquez retained both his WBA and IBF featherweight titles.

Four years later a rematch at 130 pounds presented itself in 2008, wherein, the boxing legend of Filipino clinched a split decision and stole away Marquez's WBC super featherweight belt.

Justifiably so , Marquez is hungry for a rematch and is also willing to step up to a 140, just in order to go head on with the world's best – Pacquiao.
Marquez slates Pacquiao's insistence on a 147 fight as an "excuse" for not levelling against him.

Marquez told CNN.com : "I know he can make that weight as when he fought [Antonio] Margarito [this month], he was just 144 pounds. So if they insist in fighting at 147, like Freddie Roach has mentioned, they are again giving excuses".

Pacquiao indicates his doubt as to whether the public even wanted to see him at loggerheads with Marquez for the third time.Pacquiao has to his laurels eight world titles.

TCU to be added by Big East Conference in 2012-13

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 01:02 AM PST

After becoming the 17th full member of the Big East Conference, TCU will be playing in an automatic BCS qualifying league which is pitted to begin in the 2012-13 school year.This shall be implemented with effect from July 1, 2012.

John Marinatto, Big East Commissioner, announced at a news conference in Forth Worth, that TCU will be a part of all sports for the season of 2012-13.

The newest addition will result in a total of 17 members in other sports and grant the Big East, nine football playing schools and an eight game round robin league schedule.

It also does away with the burden on current Big East programs, which will now require four non-league contests, instead of the earlier five. Hence, this move is appreciated.

TCU, via this conjunction slates the fourth time it has joined a news conference after 1995, when the old Southwest Conference broke up.

Here is a look at the history of TCU :

TCU had joined Conference USA in 2001, before which it was a part of the Western Athletic Conference in 1996.

MWC in 2005 had added the TCU Horned Frogs as the ninth team, after four seasons in Conference USA.
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