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The 68th Senior National Championship for Men and Women will be held at Chennai, Tamil Nadu from 17th to 24th January 2018. Uttarakhand Men and Kerala Women are the defending champions from the previous edition held in Puducherry. Bengaluru, 16th January 2018: The 68th Senior National Championship for Men and Women will be held at the […]

After a decade long international playing career, ex-India men’s basketball captain CV Sunny continues to dream big for the future of hoops in the country. His 5ft 9 inch frame doesn’t tell us the full story, or maybe it does. A lifetime of overcoming the odds, CV Sunny was a former Indian national men’s basketball […]

[Originally published on NBA.COM, as part of its ‘Local Heroes’ series, around December 2016.] “What makes you a great player? Is it the vicious dunks? The haircut? The shoes? The long shorts? The short socks? It’s gotta be the shoes!” So went a famous 1991 commercial where filmmaker (and over enthusiastic Knicks superfan) Spike Lee tries […]

This profile first appeared in the tadpoles magazine on April 1, 2014 and can be accessed here. “What is your favourite part of basketball: dribbling, passing or shooting?” “Defence.” pat comes the reply from Prasanna Venkatesh, a 21-year-old guard from Tamil Nadu. There’s a trace of aggression in his voice. It’s almost as if Prasanna is ready to play defense […]

  When you think about India’s performance in the Olympic Games, you would imagine our shooters, weightlifters and wrestlers. Apart from the few medals that Indians have won in these categories, India has had little success at the Olympic stage in the recent past. Barring our dominance over the rest of the world in hockey, […]