Foul!

The limelight has mostly been on the national football team. Hockey - and its never ending fiasco - tries to take centre stage too as seen on Malaysian Hockey. What about our national shuttlers who were smashed out from the group stage of the BWF Super Series Finals in China? What measures are being taken to ensure the shuttlers remain consistent from 2013 and beyond? Are the powers-that-be willing to step up and admit the current crop of players have no potential to join the elite rank and it could take perhaps 10 years or more before a new talent is found? Most importantly, why is the national federation (the BA of Malaysia) taking it upon themselves to find, scout, hone, mold, pump in millions into the players when they should instead organise more tournaments are work even closer with the schools at the grassroots? Indonesia is facing a similar problem despite a having a larger, much larger, population than us. Why should we be contended and claim that if it is diffic...

The Education Ministry (MoE) issued a statement pertaining the bashing of a Form Two school boy by several fifth formers. The statement by sports division director Ee Hong read: Dear Haresh, Thank you for your concern. We are aware of this case. As the matter has been reported to the police we are leaving it to the police for further investigation. The school has taken action according to procedures instituted. The boy, son of a Malaysian Hockey Federation officer, suffered bruises on his face and lost four of his front teeth. He was whacked pretty bad. It's a police matter now, as reported in today's Mailsport . Deputy Education Minister Dr Wee Ka Siong replied my SMS saying he was flying off to London from Switzerland and will only be back on Sunday. Some officials are on the ball. They can be in Timbuktu and are still able to answer our queries through the phone, SMS or even email. Deputy health minister Rosnah Rashid Shirlin was at the Asean Inter Parliamentary Assembly in...

What would you do if your son came home with a badly bruised face and missing four of his front teeth? That was the situation faced by a Malaysian Hockey Federation office bearer after his son, who turned 14 a day earlier, had allege he was ganged up by several fifth formers for they had thought he had snitched on them. The police report lodged by the Form 2 lad stated he was whacked because: "...he was suspected of leading the school warden (in this case a school teacher) to raid their hostel rooms to find syabu and the warden had referred the matter to the Malaysian Anti-Drug Agency." Drugs among school athletes? Read the full report in today's Mailsport . HD says: Sigh!