Comments on: Field of dreams

By: hunri

hunri — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:15:19 +0000

JAT

How do you know there are 6 7 footers in northern india?

By: Prashanth

Prashanth — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:42:17 +0000

You know..we should be improving facilities up there! High time. Besides, Manipur is the best team in India in Women’s Hockey (Besides Jharkand and I am not counting the Railways)..

Plus, the Manipur football teams ALWAYS do well!! Now that KG has come down, any chance NIKE will convince Ronnie to come down next?!

By: Sahej

Sahej — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:31:32 +0000

I think you’re absolutely right if you’re talking about competition on the world stage. However, I draw an analogy between soccer, or football, and basketball, in that you don’t need very much to get kids to start playing. All you need is a ball and a bunch of hoops, which are not very expensive. I think it’s no coincidence that both those sports, unlike, say tennis, are ones where the players come from the working and lower class

yeah but then its called, “lets run with the ball and then throw it underarm toward the hoop” i saw mad ballers with that kind of skill when i was in the desh. trust me, they can run with the ball and then stop on a dime, its amazing

no but actually i guess there are probably ballers in india who can play, and personally i’m not one to comment on anyone’s skillz

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:33:14 +0000

South Indians have tall people too…..like my brother, a mallu and 6’8″ 240lbs….damnit, if he wasnt forced to maintain decent grades and had more time to practice at a younger age…the world may never know

By: deadcritic

deadcritic — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:53:09 +0000

Everything in India is done at 25% except for maybe eduction. You watch a indian movie and all the dancers are out of sinc and the live shows I have seen on tv are even worse. The problem in India is there is no competition. Rich people get everything handed to them and they dont have to worry about any determined poor person who is so hungry for success that he puts 100% into his goal because in the end the rich guy gets everything.

By: Paresh

Paresh — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:49:13 +0000

At least this is one sport where the pitcher [bowler] won't get called for throwing [chucking] snigger Did some google legwork. It is quite the oddity to have Baseball in Manipur of all places.

By: Sriram

Sriram — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:07:25 +0000

i think basketball requires too much coaching infrastructure for india to get good very soon. plus you need to play better competition to get better, and who are india going to play to get better?

I think you're absolutely right if you're talking about competition on the world stage. However, I draw an analogy between soccer, or football, and basketball, in that you don't need very much to get kids to start playing. All you need is a ball and a bunch of hoops, which are not very expensive. I think it's no coincidence that both those sports, unlike, say tennis, are ones where the players come from the working and lower class.

By: mayur

mayur — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:22:08 +0000

“I wish I was little bit taller, I wish I was a baller…”

By: Nanda Kishore

Nanda Kishore — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:20:06 +0000

UberMetroMallu, you’re too polite to do a SpoorLam

By: UberMetroMallu

UberMetroMallu — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:41:09 +0000

I meant: siddhartha. sorry.