The Hollywood Pass
In 1938, Katherine Hepburn was one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. She had already won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1934, and was widely acclaimed as one of the finest actors of her generation. But at just 31 years of age, she had also been labelled ‘box office poison’. In print. On May 3, […]
Manchester City did the ‘Double’ of winning the English Premier League and the FA Cup this season when they beat Manchester United in the FA Cup final on June 3, having already secured the league title in May. However, Brentford had done their own ‘Double’ over the champions in late May, when they defeated City […]
By all accounts, April Fools’ Day in Manchester this year was a quiet affair. But not at the Etihad stadium, where Manchester City hosted Liverpool in a crucial English Premier League match. Jurgen Klopp’s men were trying to rally their way to Champions League qualification following a desperately disappointing season during which they had been […]
1) Italy On The Up By the end of June 10, the day the football season in Europe ends with the final of the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League in Istanbul, Italy could very well have the reigning Champions League, Europa League and Conference League winners in its ranks. The Champions League is certain to have […]
Date: April 19, 2008. Time: Around 8.30 pm. Occasion: Rajastan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils, the Royals’ first match of their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2008 campaign. At the dressing room marked ‘Away’ at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium (before it was renamed after Arun Jaitley) in Delhi, Ravindra Jadeja looked around him trying to take in […]
Sarah Lewis, now an associate professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, once visited the all-women archery team of Columbia University, New York, to watch them train. The archers were preparing for an upcoming national-level competition. As each competitor drew and then unleashed arrow after arrow from […]
Journalist: You never thought this day would come? Nick Pope: No. Journalist: Why? Pope: I’ve played in some cold, dark leagues. In League One and lower than that, and then also League Two, and Conference. The national team is a level .. you think it’s too far away almost. Nick Pope was speaking in March […]
As Argentina prepare to take on France in the 2022 Qatar World Cup final, the Albiceleste captain Lionel Messi has the opportunity to claim the one prize that’s missing from his mantelpiece, and emulate the man whose trail he has been touted to follow all his career: Diego Maradona. Regardless of the result of Sunday’s […]
Two days before the 1992 cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand began, Pakistan captain Imran Khan was a broken man. Khan, an allrounder, had torn the tendons in his right shoulder. “I was in no condition to bat or bowl or even do any fielding. I played with pain killers and cortisone injections […]
Mikel Arteta looked crushed. He was sat in front of the Arsenal goal mouth at Stamford Bridge, his legs stretched in front of him and his arms resting on either leg. The Arsenal captain glanced to his right to see Oscar, the Chelsea winger, trot away jubilantly towards a Chelsea huddle celebrating the goal he […]