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One perk, being an indian cricket fan in the U.S (post world-cup exit) is that you can watch TV for fifteen minutes flipping through channels without coming across one where a young pretty thing with mic in hand, is reporting a story about players’ effigies being burnt.

But what blew me away was that the bangladeshi fans seem to have joined their counterparts( and in fact outdid them).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2007/04/bangladesh_join_the_big_boys_1.shtml

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,21509109-23212,00.html

C’mon, a team which beat India hollow,qualified for the Super 8’s, molested SA, pushed England to its limits….

I guess subcontinental cricket fans are a rare breed.

I’ve hardly watched any game live in its entirety. Attention diverted to playoff basketball,soccer and the start of the baseball season.

what i did watch was Man U beating Roma 7-1. The prospect of Man U and chelsea meeting thrice in a fortnight in May is mouth-watering !

Sportsmen again ..

After the latest Floyd Landis scandal, it is difficuilt to not look upon any superhuman achievement in sport with suspicion. Whether he gets implicated or not and the title is stripped off him, it is a very dark day in the history of sport.

But seriously, gaining 8 mins through that stage is unheard of. And he was supposedly carrying a hip injury. Well with a huge scandal in the MLB looming with the Barry Bonds /FBI issue , i see nothing but trouble ahead.

Why, on earth would these people not understand they are letting down millions of fans when they do this. I guess the final nail in the coffin (God forbid ) would be the news that Roger Federer uses a secret substance that enables him to play faultless tennis, that was passed across generations Laver->Borg->Sampras->Federer. May be these so called ‘cliques’ a-la “Priory of Sion” do exist.

A very disappointed sport-lover signing off.