NavTej Kohli Sports Blog

A Match to Remember!

navtejk — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:37:52 -0600

It was a runaway for sure! India's losing the match against Australia yesterday comes as a shock to every Indian. Navtej Kohli expresses his views about the same....

It was one of his superlative one-day scores, a scintillating 175 off 141 balls, but Sachin Tendulkar never would have thought that with such a great knock he would be standing in the losing camp.

Yes, unbelievable but unfortunately true! Team India, who was chasing a mammoth 351, lost a nearly won match by 3 runs against Australia yesterday.

Even after losing wickets like Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh and Captain M.S. Dhoni at mere 162 runs before even half way through the match, he pushed forward the match with great heroism along with Suresh Raina, who added some much-needed big shots to the score.

Tendulkar-Raina’s 137 run 5^th wicket partnership hauled India closer to the victory at Rajiv Gandhi International stadium at Uppal. But just when the match seemed all but lost, the duo perished and the match slipped out of grasp. Raina’s attempt to hoick and Tendulkar’s paddle shot over fine leg inside the circle spelled doom for the match.

Courtesy: Cricinfo.com

Soon after, another 5 wickets were down for 36 runs and the last duo, Praveen Kumar and Munaf Patel, managed to add a meager 12 runs, which also included a timely '6' by the former. The match winded up when the duo got run out.

It was unfortunate that even after such heroic performance by Sachin Tendulkar, which almost pulled off a great win for India yesterday, team India lost the match by just three runs!

MTV's Tila Tequila Gets Star Footballer Shawne Merriman Arrested

navtejk — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:57:38 -0500

America’s famous footballer Shawne Merriman has been taken into custody for trying to throttle and restrain his girlfriend, MTV star Tila Tequila after she did a lap dance for him.

Tequila, of ‘A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila’ fame, signed a citizen’s arrest warrant accusing Merriman of choking and restraining her when she tried to leave the player’s house, north of San Diego.

Tila Tequila, whose real name is Tila Nguyen, was shot to fame with her reality show ‘A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila’ which ran for two seasons on MTV.

If the reports of an online website is to be believed, the duo was spotted at Stingaree nightclub in San Diego around 1am, i.e. a few hours before that incident took place. "They were taken in a roped off area and Tila was seen giving Shawne lap dances all night long," the website reported.

The cops responded about 3:45 a.m. to a disturbance call at the suburban home of the San Diego Chargers linebacker, when a woman called to say she was choked by the player and thrown to the ground when she tried to leave.

Tequila was taken to Pomerado Hospital in Poway, Calif where she received treatment and was discharged shortly after.

Merriman has been taken into custody and the bail was set at $58,000 (reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune).

Tequila was quite excited, as evident from a post on her twitter page, which says she was recently in the town to attend Chargers’ game Friday night against the San Francisco 49ers. Her tweet read as follows:

“Im the Head Cheerleader Prom Queen and (at)Shawne Merriman is the Prom King! hahaha! LETS GOOO! LIGHTS OUT! SAN DIEGO I WILL SEE U TOMORROW!”

Ronaldo Rejected Roma

navtejk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:11:32 -0500

Brazilian footballer Ronaldo was allegedly closely observed by AS Roma, who afterward made a bid for the veteran striker.

According to the reports of an online sports website, this event declined the prospect of returning to the series A with the Giallorossi, who doesn’t want to leave Corinthians where he has rediscovered his love for the football while playing for the Brazilians.

Reportedly, Ronaldo also refused to join Tottenham and Blackburn in the Barclays Premier League. Fenomeno's agent, Fabiano Farah says that his client feels at ease with his present club, and appreciates the family like environment.

"He feels accepted at Corinthians," Farah said."For everything that he won, and for everything he represents, Corinthians is like a family and he is happy there."

We Are Coming! Teen Shvedova Warns tennis superstars

navtejk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:36:02 -0500

Navtej Kohli is an avid follower of tennis. In this post he talks about the new young talent Yaroslava Shvedova, who may pose a great challenge to even most seasoned of the tennis players.

After proving her mettle at the US open, Yaroslava Shvedova has a message for all the stars of women tennis fraternity.

“They better watch out,” she said. “We are coming.”

Shvedova has recently ousted Serbian fifth seed Jelena Jankovic 6-3, 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (8/6) and US teen Melanie Oudin eliminated Russian fourth seed Elena Dementieva 5-7, 6-4, 6-3.

"This year, I see how many players are doing this," Shvedova said. "It's like big changing starts now."

Shvedova(22) watched Oudin(17) beating Jankovic from Wimbledon in the third round, and kept search for a Grand Slam title ongoing for the next season.

Shvedova told Oudin that she was inspired with her game. She saw her game, while waiting for her match." 'We are good girls today.’ she told Oudin.

Oudin, who ranks 70^th at present is not a big threat to tennis superstars as yet. However, as the No. 3 US Player, she has the capacity of reaching Serena and Venus Williams Stature.

"It's really cool to be called the third-best American behind the Williams sisters," Oudin said. "That's incredible. I've watched them since I was a little girl. They've been like my idols."

"When you are playing a player like that they play totally different," said Jankovic. "They're serving 120 mph. They are hitting every shot. They are really not thinking out there.

Jankovic saw Shvedova as a carefree, young breed with nothing to lose when playing against the top players.

"When you are playing a player like that they play totally different," said Jankovic. "They're serving 120 mph. They are hitting every shot. They are really not thinking out there.

Shvedova, despite having a torn meniscus, beat Jankovic in Doha last year.

"I realized it was bad. I knew I need surgery," she said. "So they just tape it. I went on the court and I just played. I realized it's nothing special. For me it's like a regular player. So you can beat anyone."

Last year, Shvedova switched her citizenship from Russia to Kazakhstan, so that she could have a chance to compete in the Fed Cup and the Olympics maybe. She said it was difficult to practice in Russia and she didn’t want to fight for resources and ranks with a established Russian tennis stars.