The players – S. Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila – are all from the Rajasthan Royals team.This is what I woke up to in the morning. And as the day proceeded, everybody was talking about the incident. Be it in my office, on the road or even in the market; all I could hear was Sreesanth and spot fixing. Even my facebook and twitter timeline were full of people’s opinion on the same.

Usually, league titles are wrapped up in the last few weeks of every football season. Last season in Europe, every league had a breathtaking finish. Manchester United were English champions for “twenty-or-so” seconds but somehow lost on the tightest of margins to Manchester City; Real Madrid won the Spanish title after winning the late decider match versus Barcelona and amassing a staggering hundred points; Borussia Dortmund fought hard and won the German Bundesliga for the second year running, and Juventus won the Italian Serie A with a mere four point gap.

The Wembley Stadium will host the Champions League Final this year on May, 25. The last time the match was held here, Barcelona obliterated Manchester United to win their second Champions League title in three years.

It is a strange tradition in the English Premier League that the voting process for the Player of the Year Award takes place before the season concludes its business. Already, the votes are being dutifully collected within the Professional Footballer’s Association (PFA) to see who will follow in the renowned footprints of Cristiano Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard. This time the players are the ones who will vote, not the critics or the fans. The top three contenders stand to be Gareth Bale of Tottenham Hotspur, Luis Suarez of Liverpool and Robin van Persie of Manchester United.

Survival of the fittest. That’s what everything in the world spins down to. Be it corporate culture, studies and exams or competitive sports. No one remembers who came second or third – the winner is always stamped on the crowd’s fond memories. In such a scenario of cut throat competition, one can obviously expect man to devise ways, ethical or unethical, to make his road to success, shorter and easier. And when it comes to sports and games, “doping” makes for an unethical yet easy way out.

This match was deemed to be the second half of the tie for which the world was holding its breath. Manchester United versus Real Madrid- two of the world’s richest, prestigious and most popular teams were playing for a spot in the Quarter Finals of the UEFA Champions League, the biggest football tournament.

News came out last week that the American footballer Robbie Rogers had announced that he was gay, and that he had decided to “step away” from his career as a professional footballer.

It has exactly been a month since Lance Armstrong’s now infamous interview on the Oprah Winfrey Show. However, it is now known, through reports in various newspapers and testimony of the drug inspectors from the Unites States of America, that he lied even during the tell-all interview.

The 15 member International Olympic Committee (IOC) has made the decision to do away with wrestling in the 2020 Buenos Aires Olympics. A ridiculous decision by any parameter, it has rightly sent shock waves in the sporting world and beyond, as wrestling is the foremost sport for building strength and athletic prowess

Every avid football fan remembers the last day of the 2011-12 English Premier League season. It was a historical day as the EPL title was won for the first time in decades by the rich and spendthrift Manchester City. They won the league based on goal difference (difference between goals scored and conceded) with virtually the last kick of the game. It was extraordinary, to say the least.