http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/6 Athletes, Olympics, drug abuse, trophies, leagues, team sports, board games, past, present and future are tackled here. Fri, 30 Jul 10 15:40:31 +0300 en http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/6052 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:32:59 +0300 Thanos Kalamidas Let\'s talk football and since we are in the middle of the summer let\'s talk about transfers. Actually the last time we talked football it was again about transfers and if I remember well it was all about Christiano Ronaldo and the unbelievable cost of h http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/6008 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:26:06 +0300 Thanos Kalamidas Tears from both sides and Spain is the new holder of the world cup. Holland for the third time returns home with tears while Carlos, the king of Spain prepares shines his uniform to welcome the heroes. In the meantime South Africa ignoring the financial http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5844 Sat, 29 May 2010 09:38:26 +0300 The Ovi Team On Saturday 29th May, EMPIRE CRICKET CLUB will once again be the only one of Finland\'s 17 local cricket clubs to play on real grass! http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5476 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:49:07 +0300 The Ovi Team 25th February, 1964; Cassius Clay, defeated Sonny Liston when Liston retired at the end of the sixth round in Miami to become Heavyweight Champion of the World. http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5410 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:34:27 +0300 The Ovi Team On February 9, 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts (USA), William G Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette as a pastime to be played preferably indoors and by any number of players. The game took some of its character http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5131 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:48:37 +0300 Binoy Kampmark That much air time, and column space, is being given to this issue might be seen as worrying. But football matches have a habit of transfixing global audiences. No sport attracts more money or tribal interest. The largest sporting event on the planet i http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5130 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:48:15 +0300 Thanos Kalamidas When a couple of years ago the big football scandal hit Italy and Juventus fell from the first division to the second, first nobody was surprised and second everybody was waiting who\'s next to follow. Even though the rumours had it that the next one is g http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/4848 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:38:36 +0300 Craig Houston Wednesday night conjured up mixed fortunes for the British teams as qualifying for the 2010 World Cup reaches its final - and crucial - throes. England continued their superb 100% record as they gained revenge on Croatia by thumping them 5-1 at a pack http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/4815 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:53:06 +0300 Thanos Kalamidas I didn\'t expect Michel Platini to spend his time reading Ovi magazine, and particularly not my articles. But it seems I was one of the just too many people who said exactly the same thing. After all the amount of money spent on Cristiano Ronaldo, in a pe http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/4732 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:47:23 +0300 Thanos Kalamidas It is only days since I last time wrote about football and football it is again. While I was thinking of writing something about the new European Champions\' League that just started, a death turned everything around. A 26-year-old man died after sufferi