[Maria Sharapova] clasped her hands and swayed as she stood, waiting to receive the Daphne Akhurst Trophy, then told the Rod Laver Arena crowd that she’d received a text message from tennis great Billie Jean King telling her that ‘Champions take chances and pressure is a privilege.’
“I took mine,” Sharapova said.
Maria Sharapova wins Australian Open.
Or shall we say DUCK Movie?
Much has been heard and said about cricket and about Sreesanth who is getting more popularity for his antics than his performance, hitting someone for a six after being provoked is atitude, provoking someone unnecesarily is bad-titude as I would call it, and Sree looks like he has a ton of it…
And as you can see here, he doesn’t easily learn from his mistakes..
“In a game during the Challenger Series, Sreesanth went past Sachin Tendulkar’s bat twice and then did what no other bowler has had the guts the do for a long time - he had his hands on his hips and stared hard at Tendulkar.
The little master didn’t like it and he made it obvious on the next delivery when he stepped out to clatter the bowler over his head for a six.Tendulkar walked down the pitch, tapping it and told Sreesanth firmly, “Don’t you ever come close to me again.” “
The full article here
Also, another hungry-for-fame lawyer complaining about the disrespect caused to the Indian flag by the winning T20 champions….
kitna dukhi aatma hai saala.
Dear Cricket God (if there is one),
(Please note that the term ‘Cricket God’ is different from the God of Cricket, hence I’m not referring to Sachin or any other player).
As an occasional devotee, whose faith rekindles now and then, in one of the greatest sports of whom you were appointed God. There has been a new revolution, of course you are the all-knowing almighty, still for the benefit of those who dare to laugh and smirk at your existence and are reading this letter, I’m referring to the new (now old), Indian cricket League which has shown some beginning to a new sports era that could encourage local talent in many regions, though not as micro-managed as something like say college foot ball in the US, we did get a start, more players, more matches, more exposure and more awareness to the public. Something else to cheer for other than the 11 men out of thousands of hopefuls who haven’t achieved their dream, and those who never could in spite if being the greatest of your creations. The primary trust committee for your worshipers in India, BCCI has erred just like every God keepers committee for all religions have in the past, until their authority has been challenged by an unconventional revolutionary (like Subhash Chandra, the one with the money and guts to do so). Now that I have stated the background information here, I pray to you let the Indian team show their dismal performance in the series. No, this is not a ‘not’ joke. I think a couple of series with continuous losses and once the indifferent public come out with their meaningless hate towards the sportsmen themselves, some will see light in the Indian Cricket League(ICL). Maybe for this reason, BCCI wants team India to win the ongoing one-day series at all costs. What if, players like Sachin, Ganguly and other senior players retire sometime soon and join ICL either as players themselves or officials endorsing the ICL and their 20/20 format. BCCI is trying hard to maintain the monopoly on the sport, so hard trying to get ICC backing and to ban the players from playing for India indefinitely. Disgrunteld players from Pakistan and other players from South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand and Australia have joined ICL anyway if not either out of pure passion then for the money at least. While BCCI has hiked the players’ fee to previously unheard of amounts (click here), and complain of Kapil Dev’s greed anyway, I would say they dear God, that they are actually bribing the current players to keep them away from ICL, and this is blasphemy, how dare anyone associate the purest sport, cricket with money? And to all those youngsters who have risked joining ICL anyway, hats off, my cricket God salutes your balls..err, guts I mean. And God, make it clear to the BCCI that they are here for taking care of a SPORT apolitically, not play political GAMES themselves.
Yours faithfully,
a.devotee
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