Will sportskies have rainbows? At St. Francis and Don Bosco football grounds, school kids kick and pass, slush and footballs in Messi jersies. Grand-daughter Shreya sports a Messi shirt for school football with boys at Rustomjee. Will sportskies have rainbows? Will skysports, stars? Football, cricket, boxing, athletics, badminton, field hockey, tennis are serving no freshers. Messi gone, going by his words. After Rio, athletics will not Usain Bolt. Sports magic is in magic players; the players do not realise their magic; and that is the magic. Wimbledon and Paris greens 2016 have no mystery, no divine craft; the little is with the aged as Djokovic sent off an opponent called James Ward; quarter-way switched off TV. Wimbledon is 130 years old and wears it youngishly; aged legs and arms scramble for yellow balls with high tech strings and little convictions. Class matters. Style is must. Creation, Big Bang or not, was in poetic style. There is none or little in sports 2016. Technology souped by corporates has put speed into sports; sports skids; speed crunches the art of games; every sports is techo quick and humans find it hard to keep pace; grace is an armchair. Governing bodies have tweaked laws to quicken games, not necessarily interesting. A T20 is not a Test match. Badminton is all pace; tennis is the same. Corporates have made players and managers immensely rich. They will be around forever. But will sports have Magicians or will technology produce look alikes. Will sportsmen and women slip and drop? Maybe, one good day in 2020, robots could be on display at Olympics. Robots outsmarting humans. Maybe, maybe. Something the same at literary and film festivals funded by corporates; films do not last a screening, books not the festival; but all are happy, corporates most; robots will write War and Love. Most of us today look the same, today, furiously buttoning i-pads and mobiles; monotonous; will sports become that. Corporates will like it as more ipads mean more cash. More robots mean more wall space for ads. Cheap ipads have made us commoners all. None different from none. Messi, of all footballers today, is the difference. Usain Bolt, of all, has a boast, a style. Corporate Tech will be swamping us. Sports will not be fun, simple and plenty. Me wants Messi to spin and swing and swerve the football. Will sportskies have rainbows?
Monday, June 27, 2016
Rainbows
Will sportskies have rainbows? At St. Francis and Don Bosco football grounds, school kids kick and pass, slush and footballs in Messi jersies. Grand-daughter Shreya sports a Messi shirt for school football with boys at Rustomjee. Will sportskies have rainbows? Will skysports, stars? Football, cricket, boxing, athletics, badminton, field hockey, tennis are serving no freshers. Messi gone, going by his words. After Rio, athletics will not Usain Bolt. Sports magic is in magic players; the players do not realise their magic; and that is the magic. Wimbledon and Paris greens 2016 have no mystery, no divine craft; the little is with the aged as Djokovic sent off an opponent called James Ward; quarter-way switched off TV. Wimbledon is 130 years old and wears it youngishly; aged legs and arms scramble for yellow balls with high tech strings and little convictions. Class matters. Style is must. Creation, Big Bang or not, was in poetic style. There is none or little in sports 2016. Technology souped by corporates has put speed into sports; sports skids; speed crunches the art of games; every sports is techo quick and humans find it hard to keep pace; grace is an armchair. Governing bodies have tweaked laws to quicken games, not necessarily interesting. A T20 is not a Test match. Badminton is all pace; tennis is the same. Corporates have made players and managers immensely rich. They will be around forever. But will sports have Magicians or will technology produce look alikes. Will sportsmen and women slip and drop? Maybe, one good day in 2020, robots could be on display at Olympics. Robots outsmarting humans. Maybe, maybe. Something the same at literary and film festivals funded by corporates; films do not last a screening, books not the festival; but all are happy, corporates most; robots will write War and Love. Most of us today look the same, today, furiously buttoning i-pads and mobiles; monotonous; will sports become that. Corporates will like it as more ipads mean more cash. More robots mean more wall space for ads. Cheap ipads have made us commoners all. None different from none. Messi, of all footballers today, is the difference. Usain Bolt, of all, has a boast, a style. Corporate Tech will be swamping us. Sports will not be fun, simple and plenty. Me wants Messi to spin and swing and swerve the football. Will sportskies have rainbows?
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