Pride, Blood, Sweat & Tears

By Jita Singh: Sometimes when I look back, I dare say Malaysia Cup derby matches on either ends of the Causeway rank among the most passionate...

Two Scribes & A Sage

By Peter Martinez: The National Hockey League was the brainchild of three people: George Das and this scribe, with former national coach R Yogeswaran giving liberal...

Get Out of Ipoh!

By George Das: It was blazing hot. The sun was unkind on this mid-afternoon in November of 1979. I stepped on to the Ipoh Municipal ground,...

THE DREAMER & HIS WIFE

  Beautiful people don’t just happen. The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known...

The Man of Sorrows

By A.Subramaniam When he passed away in August 2012, accolades were heaped on Punch Gunalan for his accomplishments both on and off the badminton court. The...

Gentleman Paul

By Hishamuddin Aun: You must be new, eh? Those were the words I remember vividly how Paul Mony Samuel (later a Datuk Seri) greeted me when...

Hockey Ran In His Veins!

By Aslam Sher Khan: I had played against Malaysia in the 1975 World Cup. That is the best Malaysian  team I had faced which was  coached...

Supermokh: The Untold Story

By Hishamuddin Aun: I grew up idolising Mokhtar Dahari – which kid who loves playing football then wouldn’t – but unlike them, I must have been...

Tunku In Tears!

By George Das: His eyes welled-up. There was a trickle rolling down his cheeks. Tony Francis and I found ourselves in a rather awkward situation as we...

MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER

My sportswriting career was “launched” in a most unceremonious way exactly 43 years ago. Pak Samad (the late Tan Sri Samad Ismail), who was the...