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		<title>Euro 2012: Can Cristiano Ronaldo Do a Maradona for Portugal?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[England is not the only team going into Euro 2012 with the advantage of low expectations: consider Portugal. Eight years ago, the Selecção came within a whisker of winning the tournament on home soil. The Portuguese, led by the so-called &#8220;Golden Generation&#8221;of Luis Figo, Rui Costa, Fernando Couto and Pauletta were shocked 1-0 in the final by underdogs Greece. A 19-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo could only watch in frustration, his two goals in the tournament merely hinting at his great potential. In the intervening years, other world-class players like Deco have come and gone, never matching the 2004 achievement, their best ever. Going into Euro 2012, the team carries relatively light hopes. There are great players in the squad, including Real Madrid&#8217;s mighty defender Pepe and Manchester United&#8217;s skillful midfielder Nani. But a Golden Generation, this is not. Heck, they only qualified for Ukraine/Poland by the skin of their teeth, requiring a play-off against Bosnia &#38; Herzegovina. (MORE: Why Real Madrid Can’t Beat Barca on the Field, But Leads Comfortably in the Market) Portugal does have one diamond, though: Ronaldo, now in his pomp at Real Madrid, is far and away Europe&#8217;s best player. Only a certain diminutive Argentinian at Barcelona prevents him from being hailed the best in the world. His goals were crucial to Portugal qualifying for Euro 2012, and the team&#8217;s fortunes rest mostly on his powerful shoulders. On paper, Portugal should have no chance of making it out of Group B: they face two of the tournament favorites in Germany and the Netherlands, plus an unpredictable Denmark (all four sides are in FIFA&#8217;s top 10 rankings, hence Group B&#8217;s tag as the Group of Death). And their build-up form has not been flattering. Two scoreless friendlies, against Poland and Macedonia, were followed by a 3-1 spanking at home by Turkey. (Portugal faces Germany in their opening game, this Saturday.) But while Portugal has Ronaldo, anything is possible. CR7, as his fans know him, is one of soccer&#8217;s great game-changers, capable of turning a match with a single<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2339465&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Chess Champ Viswanathan Anand Beats Age and Opponents</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 16:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appreciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boris Gelfand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[india]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[India may be the only country where a chess world champ gets mobbed in the street, so you can imagine the reception awaiting Viswanathan Anand in Chennai when he returns from his latest triumph this week. Anand beat Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand to retain his World Championship title in Moscow on Wednesday. This is Anand&#8217;s fourth crown in a row, and fifth overall. He defeated Gelfand 2.5-1.5 in the four-match tie breaker (the tournament turned into a tie-breaker as the players couldn&#8217;t be separated after 12 games). The achievement is the more remarkable because chess champs are thought to be past their prime at 30. Anand is 42. To put that in context, you&#8217;d have to imagine Jack Nicklaus winning the Augusta Masters this year, at 72. (PHOTOS: Chess Grandmasters Under Glass) But then Anand has always defied chess convention. His greatest asset, speed, was once regarded as irrelevant in a sport not known for swift action. There was an air of sarcasm about the nickname he warned early in his career: &#8220;The Lightning Kid.&#8221; After winning the junior chess crown at 17, and becoming India&#8217;s first Grand Master the following year in 1988, Anand&#8217;s career departed from the traditional arc. Success didn&#8217;t come early. Instead, he toiled in the shadows of all-time greats like Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. It wasn&#8217;t until 2000 that he won his first World Chess Championship, becoming the first Indian to bring the crown to the birthplace of chess. Anand blossomed in his 30s, beating back fierce challenges from the likes of Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov and the latest wunderkind, Magnus Carlsen. But he acknowledged that his win against Gelfand was the hardest. &#8220;He played stuff he never played before in his life, he told the Indian TV station NDTV. &#8220;I believe it was entirely a question of nerves, and my nerves held up till the very end, and that was the main thing.&#8221; (MORE: A Bold Opening for Chess Player Magnus Carlsen) In 2008, Anand wrote about the history of chess for TIME<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2339258&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;I&#8217;ve Got to Be Myself&#8217;: The Sachin Tendulkar Interview</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/05/09/ive-got-to-be-myselt-the-sachin-tendulkar-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cricket]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sports icons are rarely good interviews. They’re usually too conscious about their public image to be truly candid, and tend to speak in bland bromides. So when TIME correspondent Nilanjana Bhowmick and I met with India’s cricket star Sachin Tendulkar in Mumbai last month for a magazine profile that will appear in this week&#8217;s issue of TIME (available to subscribers here), we were not expecting much. Although he is known as the ‘Master Blaster’ for his swash-buckling batting, Tendulkar is famously reticent off the field. When he has given interviews, he has tended to steer clear of anything remotely controversial. He’s also been careful not to reveal very much about himself, about what goes on in the mind of a man who’s revered by his cricket-crazy countrymen as a kind of divinity. To our surprise, Tendulkar was in a chatty mood. Although he artfully dodged questions about politics (the interview took place a couple of weeks before he was appointed to the Indian parliament), the world’s greatest batsman opened up about how he copes with the burden of a billion dreams, his mental process on and off the pitch, and even about the anxieties of fatherhood. (PHOTOS: The 2011 Cricket World Cup) Excerpts from the interview: On how much attention he pays to the outsize impact he has on his countrymen: For me there was [always] a simple formula: be focused on cricket and the rest of the things will happen. Let people talk about it; me, I move forward. Right from my school days, I have done that. I know that certain things I do or say have an impact on people; people appreciate certain things that I do. But any active sportsman has to be very focused; you’ve got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2338697&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Pep Guardiola&#8217;s Still Got It All To Prove</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/04/27/why-pep-guardiolas-still-got-it-all-to-prove/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the fuss dies down, when FC Barcelona&#8217;s legions have dried their tears, when sportswriters are done recounting the club&#8217;s 13 trophies in three years, when the new man takes charge at Camp Nou, when the world returns to normal &#8230; What then for Pep Guardiola? Barca&#8217;s most successful coach, who stepped down amidst much Catalonian anguish Friday, will find himself with much more to prove than the club he&#8217;s left behind. Don&#8217;t get me wrong: Barca has a mountain to climb. Guardiola was &#8216;mes que un mister,&#8217; more like a talisman for the club where he had previously been a ball-boy, player and captain. The 41-year-old will leave with the team at its lowest ebb in four years (he&#8217;ll be succeeded by current assistant Tito Vilanova next season), with the prospect (not the certainty) of a single piece of silverware this year, the Copa del Rey. That&#8217;s slim pickings for a club gloried by so many sportswriters as possibly the best-ever. The well-oiled tiki-taka machine has been creaky this season: Xavi, the midfield maestro, has been less than his genius self; Piqué, the charismatic defender often compared to Franz Beckenbauer, has been poor; Villa has been missing with injury. Indeed, only Messi&#8217;s personal-best goal tally has kept Barca in contention for silverware at all. (MORE: TIME&#8217;s Cover Story on Messi) Coming back from this fallow spell, under new management, will be incredibly hard. But great clubs shake off adversity, and rejuvenate themselves. And there&#8217;s no question Barca is a great club. There will, however, be questions about whether Guardiola is a great coach. Despite his incredible success at Barca, there&#8217;s always been a sense that he inherited a team already destined for greatness. Critics (and by critics, I mean Real Madrid fans like my wife Bipasha) cavil that Guardiola had success handed to him on a plate. His predecessor, the Dutchman Frank Rijkaard, had already groomed Xavi, Iniesta and Messi into world-class players, and that Holy Troika was key to all of Guardiola&#8217;s successes (though it should be pointed<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2338203&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ton-dulkar! A New Landmark For Cricket&#8217;s Greatest</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/03/16/ton-dulkar-a-new-landmark-for-crickets-greatest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That giant whoosh you heard as you woke up on the Eastern Seaboard this morning was the sound of 1,200,000,000 Indians exhaling after having held their collective breath for a full year. Sachin Tendulkar, the nation&#8217;s sporting deity, had just completed his 100th score of 100 playing in national colors, a feat no other cricketer has come even close to achieving. For Tendulkar, arguably cricket&#8217;s greatest-ever batsman, the pursuit of this &#8216;ton of tons&#8217; has been unusually tortuous: he scored his 99th a year ago, then went through what, by his stratospheric standards, must rank as a lean patch. In 33 attempts at bat, he twice notched up scores of 90 or more, only to fall agonizingly short of the Big One. For cricket-mad Indians—and indeed Tendulkar fans the world over—it was pure agony. (PHOTOS: Tendulkar at the Cricket World Cup) His talent is so immense, there was never any doubt he would get there, it was only a question of when and where. Now that he has, some will cavil that the occasion did not match the achievement: he got the runs against Bangladesh, one of the minnows of the game. And he did it at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in the city of Mirpur, which doesn&#8217;t exactly rank among cricket&#8217;s great venues. A feat of this magnitude should, the kvetchers will say, should have taken place at Lord&#8217;s, against England; or at the Sydney Cricket Ground, against Australia; or at the Wankhade, Tendulkar&#8217;s Mumbai home stadium, against South Africa. That it came against weak opposition in an unsung stadium will be seen by some as proof that Tendulkar&#8217;s great powers are on the wane. It will be suggested, too, that now he&#8217;s reached the milestone, Tendulkar should consider hanging up his batting gloves. After all, two of the great quartet of Indian batsmen who lit up the past decade—Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly—have already retired. The fourth, V.V.S. Laxman, is also the subject of retirement speculation. If Tendulkar leaves now, commentators will gently suggest, it will have<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2335803&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At last, the Cup&#8217;s first real upset</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2010/06/16/at-last-the-cups-first-real-upset/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, the U.S. drawing against England doesn&#8217;t really count. Kudos to the Swiss for beating La Furia Roja. The tournament needed that. And arguably, so did Spain. In the run-up to the Cup, its players and coach spent too much time protesting, disingenuously, that they were not the favorites. That struck me as the wrong tone: it suggested they were spending too much time worrying about the tag. Here&#8217;s hoping the defeat will act like a bucket of cold water in Spanish faces, forcing them to quit thinking about who is and isn&#8217;t the favorite, and instead concentrate on playing the beautiful game they&#8217;re capable of. The avuncular Vincente del Bosque has work to do, infusing his disheartened troops. But he should be able to convince them that they can make short work of Honduras and Chile &#8212; provided they play like they&#8217;re the favorites.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=969&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why my esteemed colleague is totally wrong about the vuvuzela controversy</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2010/06/16/why-my-esteemed-colleague-is-totally-wrong-about-the-vuvuzela-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, come ON, Glen! Complaints about the vuvuzelas are not, as you suggest, “ridiculous fuss.” And your arch response (hold all Cups in Europe) is disingenuous. It suggests all non-European Cups have featured vuvuzelas, which is patently untrue. And it implies that European tournaments are quiet, decorous affairs – also untrue. Understand that we’re not complaining about noise. Noise is good. Noise conveys excitement. Noise is fun. Noise is central to the enjoyment of sport. But for it to be enjoyable, noise levels have to rise and fall with the ebb and flow of a game. They have to reflect the changing mood of the spectators, which is then transmitted to those unfortunates like myself who are obliged to watch on TV. The trouble with those horns is not that they’re loud. It’s that they are monotonous. They don’t convey any particular emotion. Perhaps things are different at the stadium, I don’t know. But for those of us watching at home, there’s 90 minutes (plus time added on) of uninflected, toneless sound. The level never rises or falls. It’s impossible to judge the mood of the stadium, and that affects our enjoyment of the game. In short, it’s a valid complaint.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=964&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa can have its vuvuzelas&#8230; as long as it promsies to keep them!</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2010/06/15/south-africa-can-have-its-vuvuzelas-as-long-as-it-promsies-to-keep-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend in London reports that the infernal horn has found its way to British supermarkets, where it&#8217;s selling like the proverbial hotcakes at two pounds a pop. This raises the dreadful possibility that the vuvuzela will become South Africa&#8217;s export to the rest of the soccer world. That&#8217;s what happened to the Mexican wave, remember? If FIFA doesn&#8217;t have the spine to ban the wretched things from the World Cup stadia, here&#8217;s hoping the English Premier League (and other national soccer federations) will stamp out the menace before it takes over the terraces.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=938&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s drop the niceties: that was NOT a great start to the Cup</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2010/06/11/lets-drop-the-niceties-that-was-not-a-great-start-to-the-cup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all due apologies to my fellow-blogger Tony Karon and 50 million other South Africans, that a pretty lame start to the tournament. I know, I know: we&#8217;re all meant to celebrate the first game, to be happy for the host nation, to make allowances for the fact that first games are often ties&#8230; But set aide these niceties for a moment, and you have to admit it was a rubbish game. Lots of possession (by Mexico) without thrust, followed by thrust with little possession (by South Africa); lots of fumbling in the penalty box (by both teams); sitters missed (ditto); one lucky goal (the first) and one silly goal (the second). More bad passes than I care to recount, and very little intelligent play. And, at the end, a draw. Here&#8217;s hoping the French and the Uruguayans can produce something more fitting this afternoon.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=658&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the vuvuzela doesn&#8217;t do it for me</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2010/06/11/why-the-vuvuzela-doesnt-do-it-for-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobby Ghosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not that they make too much noise, it&#8217;s that there&#8217;s no volume control. The trouble with vuvuzelas is that they keep the noise level consistently high. There&#8217;s no perceptible increase or decrease of noise to go with the ebb and flow of the game. After Shabalala scored, you&#8217;d have expected the stadium to explode with noise. But watching on TV, there was absolutely no change in the sound or volume of the vuvuzelas. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s different for people in the stadium, but for those of us in the stadium, the vuvuzelas actually take away from the emotion of the game. A pity, that.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=638&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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