Janine Shepherd’s story is just like a plot of a Hollywood movie.Shepherd started her career as a champion cross country skier. But her athletic career came to an end, while she was training for the Winter Olympics. She was run over by a truck during a training bicycle ride to the Blue Mountains.

The infamous January Transfer Window has finally come to an end. Managers at top clubs say that you can’t really buy quality players in January because nobody’s really available, or their values are highly inflated. It might not seem that crazy but a lot of haywire is caused conducting a player’s transfer in the background.

Galatasaray Football Club, an eighteen time winner of the Turkish Super League, has undoubtedly shaken the footballing world by signing two top quality players in Wesley Sneijder and Didier Drogba.
Clearly the two most surprising signings of the January transfer window yet, the club has pulled off two major coups that could help their cause in the UEFA Champions League and also attract star players in the coming future. It seemed that both the players were waiting for better offers, but now that they’re at the Cimbom (the club’s nickname), the two have a chance to write their names with Turkey’s most popular club.

European football or soccer, whatever you want to call it, is in motion and there’s a lot of news in the air. For most diehard fans, the month of January is the Transfer Window Month. It is a period of excitement and desperation as teams around Europe look to bolster their squads in the final week so as to push for a title shot/ European Football/staying mid-table/avoiding relegation. If the last one doesn’t sound that bad to you, maybe you should go look up Hermann Hreidarsson on Wikipedia (relegated four times with four different clubs). Poor Guy. Nevertheless, let’s get started.

“The truth is, if you ask me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. As odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor as winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.”

Cricket is the second most highly watched sport throughout the world. From top batsman Sachin Tendulkar to the top wicket taker Mutthia Muralidaran had faced the controversies.The latest on field fight to make the news is the fight between Shane Warne and Marlon Samuels. For those of you who do not know what actually happened, take a look:

Sachin Tendulkar is widely regarded as the “God of Cricket” all over India. He’s made out to be perfect, flawless, and he’s worshipped – literally so. We’ve all heard the words “Cricket is my religion, and Sachin is my God” at some point of time or the other. Fans do crazy things in his name.

Sports are an important part of human society and have existed since roughly 2000 BC. A sport can be defined as “any form of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aims to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants and spectators.” Sport is mostly competitive, where winners are identified by objective means, and sometimes require a degree of skill. The word “sport” comes from the old French word “desport” meaning “leisure”. The French word for sport is based on the Persian word “bord”, which means “winning” or “to win”.

The whole nation let out a sigh of relief when Ashok Dinda finally took the wicket of Mohammad Hafeez in the 19th over. Hafeez had put up a fantastic front against the Indian team with 55 runs off 26 balls, in the second match of the India-Pakistan T20 series; it almost looked like he was going to cost India the game.

There are some things that you have to know and do, by virtue of being an Indian. So, if you are an Indian, you have to be fond of chai. You have to be big on weddings. You have to know the story of monkey-man. You have to know the deeper meaning behind “taking board exams”. You have to have that one relative who, when they come from “abroad” get nice chocolates and cameras.