Floyd Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto: May 5th, MGM Grand, Las Vegas

Floyd Mayweather is known for his flamboyance, outspoken nature and his gifted boxing ability. His entourage, known as “The Money Team” is all about handling business when it comes to matters inside the ring.  With a record of 42-0 with wins over the likes of Oscar De La Hoya, the Late Arturo Gatti, and Juan [...]

Charity Football: “Play For Life”

During the 2010 FIFA World Cup, The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) launched the “Give AIDS the Red Card”, a campaign aimed at raising awareness around HIV infections and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.  The campaign, which has been successful with involving high-profile team captains, athletes, and fans across the world, has [...]

Amir Khan vs. Zab Judah: July 23rd

On July 23rd, ferocious and explosive Amir Khan (Record: 25-1) will take on Yankee south paw and seasoned veteran Zab Judah (41-6) for a unification bout that will place the light welterweight champions against each other for a 12 round showdown in Las Vegas. Khan is the current WBA Champ while Judah holds the IBF [...]

NBA Cares: Basketball in your Community

The NBA has done much work over the last few years to expand into foreign markets, to revamp its growing image and to be continuously recognized as a legitimate organization in world sport.  Well, as the saying goes, “With great power comes great responsibility”.  The NBA knows all about handling such responsibility.  Players and coaches [...]

UNICEF and Sport for Development: Children on the front line

UNICEF has many organizational goals based around the betterment of the lives of children. Using sport as a tool for this enhancement in quality of life, experiences, and well-being are among the top priorities of the UNICEF organization. For further information, be sure to check out UNICEF’s website for more information on the organization and [...]

Middle East Uprisings and Sport

After witnessing the recent uprisings in the Middle East spread like wild fire throughout the region and watching young people take to the street for a cause (their own future, democracy, freedom, call it however you see it), the power of sport has become clearer, as a motivator for change and as a way of [...]

Cricket for a Cause: ICC and AIDS team up for the 2011 World Cup

What do Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka), Virender Sehwag (India), Graeme Smith (South Africa), Shakib-Al-Hasan (Bangladesh) and Ramnaresh Sarwan (West Indies) have in common? It turns out a passion for Cricket is not the only thing these guys share.  UNAIDS and ICC have teamed up once again to continue trekking forward on a campaign around the [...]

2011 Cricket World Cup

The Commonwealth Games served as a platform for the Indian organizing committees to showcase its hosting abilities for a major tournament.  The event was most definitely a notable one for India and now, the ICC Cricket World Cup is South Asia’s chance to serve as a follow-up to the Delhi games and a chance for [...]

Strikeforce Heavyweight Tournament: Packing Pounds, Punches and Promise

Some have labeled it a waste of time, citing the spreading of false hopes and false advertisement as a way of gathering attention for an organization trying to squeeze a place for themselves next to the best in the business.  But the truth is that your organization is often only as good as your athletes. [...]

India 2010 to 2011: New Year, New Sports, New Goals

The Commonwealth games organizing committee might have reinforced the embarrassing and unacceptable “corrupt nation” image but India’s athletes in the commonwealth games did their best to divert the attention of onlookers with a surprising and thorough performance in various disciplines throughout the tournament.  The host nation sent almost 500 athletes and collected an impressive 101 [...]