The US pulls out of YOG’s swimming competition; and may skip shooting and cycling too

It looks like the US will not be sending its top youth swimmers, cyclists and shooters to next year’s Youth Olympic Games.
According to a report in the news website reachforthewall.com, USA Swimming has decided to sit out the YOG, preferring to send its swimmers to meets to qualify for the senior and junior Pan Pacific Championships [...]

The sad and appalling state of local hockey umpiring

Background:
The column below was written by Santokh Singh, a former sports correspondent with The Straits Times, and now a news editor with The New Paper. The column lamented the state of local hockey umpiring and the personal anecdotes that he provided were a real eye-opener.
I was really disturbed not just by his examples of farcical [...]

The Singapore football fan is speaking up and backing Noh Alam Shah’s blast against the S-League

The letters:
Interestingly, there has been a steady stream of letters to The Straits Times following national skipper Noh Alam Shah’s tirade against the S-League. And most of them do agree with the points he raised about the local domestic football tournament.
Pity then that most of them ended up in the forum section of the online [...]