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By Mohsin Ali Sadiq, TS2B

Yes, human sacrifice was made on Saturday, 18th March when the TIP basket-ball team went up against Mehran University in the 1st game of the HEC basket-ball tournament and lost by a score of 23 - 06 or to quote an Urdu saying, "bakre ki balli char gayi".

Friday started with a lot of confusion when our captain Shayan had to drop out of the squad due to a family emergency. The lineup was short of two regular players as it is and with Shayan gone, the team was left with Aasim Ahmed and yours truly. There was a point in the day, when it was decided that the team wouldn't go as the players hadn't had enough practice and we didn't have a complete starting lineup. The players, all packed up to leave for home, suddenly received the breaking news at the end of the day that TIP is required to participate as we had been given the grand honour of the opening game of the tournament and playing before the chief guests.

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Posted by Mohsin Ali Sadiq at 01:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (8)

The TIP Basketball Team played their first basketball game against Greenwich University on Wednesday, March 15 as a practice match for the upcoming HEC tournament. TIP lost 30-50, not bad for their first game against last years HEC zonal champs.

Pictures of the match are by Schallim Reuben.

In other news, the TIP Basketball Team was to participate in the HEC Inter-University Basketball Match in Jamshoro this Saturday, March 18, 2006. However, this trip has been cancelled.

Update: Our team did participate in Jamshoro! Details soon.

Posted by Abid Omar at 05:32 PM | Permalink

Street Basketball, pictures by Ali Hakeem and Haris Hanif.

Click here for the pictures.

Posted by Abid Omar at 05:12 PM | Permalink

By Mohsin Ali Sadiq TS2B

Yes, TIP Street-ball happened. The tournament which was supposed to take place last semester came through and finally took place on the eve of 22nd February at about 5:30 and ended at around 8: 30 with a lot of laughter and entertainment for the crowd.

SCOREBOARD

GAME 1: ROCKERS (8) - STRIKERS (4)

GAME 2: TMM4 (4) - HATO BACHO (3)

GAME 3: SHABI'S THREE (2) - STRIKERS (6)

GAME 4: HATO BACHO (5) - ROCKERS (7)

GAME 5: TMM4 (4) - SHABI'S THREE (2)-fouled out

FINAL: ROCKERS (11) - TMM4 (4)

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Posted by Mohsin Ali Sadiq at 09:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

1. Are students serious about sports to justify hiring a coach?
2. Is the administration ready to commit the time and finances required to develop a sports program (or culture)?

The administration is considering hiring a sports coach at TIP. Mr. Ali Hafeez Azmat (Textile Science Faculty and Sports Coordinator) is currently interviewing suitable candidates. He claims that having a coach will provide the necessary discipline and team-spirit in students, as well as inculcating the virtues of patience and perseverance under the guidance of a professional. This coach would be ideally for cricket, football and basketball, and would provide general fitness training including stamina and strength building. He would organize and oversee inter- and intra-university sports.

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Posted by Abid Omar at 04:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

The overall situation in TIP regarding sports has been kinda blah! Although a lot of commitment has been shown by some individuals and our sports coordinator Ali Hafeez Azmat (Textile Science Faculty), the sports community in tip is still subject to a lot of criticism.

You may have heard the news that TIP is considering hiring a coach. Getting a coach for sports and fitness is a good start. He maybe able to inspire the sportsman in all of us. I know a lot of students who are good at more than just one sport and are not given due opportunity, may it be prejudice or politics - that's a different story.

But this initiative will fail if the person appointed is not given the due authority and finances to get things done around here. Being a member of the sporting community, I still don't understand a few norms we follow. But I've got my place in the sport I play so I continue to make efforts for it.

I hope this step will create due awareness about sports required around this place because seriously we have a lot of time to kill around here - more than we would to admit!

Posted by Mohsin Ali Sadiq at 04:05 PM | Permalink

At the TMC Ground, Textile Institute of Pakistan scored 150 in 49.4 overs (Farid Kapadia 35, Adil Hasan 26, Anus Anwar 19; Bilal Memon 3-15, Kamran Butt 2-23, Fahad Hasan 2-25) against Iqra University who scored 151-6 in 25.3 overs (Kashan Qureshi 40, Yasin Saleem 36, Adeel Abbasi 32; Haris Husain 2-21, Farid Kapadia 2-40) to win the match by four wickets.

News item extracted from daily times site edition. For more details, click the link below.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_9-8-2005_pg2_15

Posted by Aasim Ahmed at 01:54 AM | Permalink

On the 21st of August, the TIP CricketTeam played a match against KIIT (Karachi Institute of Information Technology). This match was part of the Preston Institute's Cricket Tournament, and was the first of the season 2003-04.

KIIT crushed TIP's cricket team this match. Details will follow (Arafat, where are the details?!).

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Posted by Abdul Saboor at 01:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

With volleyball becoming an ever popular sport at TIP, the administration has is developing a proper volleyball court by the lake. The basketball court is also in its final stages of completion next to the volleyball court (where the tennis court is suppossed to be!). Students interested in playing college volleyball and basketball must register with the TISF Sports Secretary Arafat Tahir.

Posted by Abdul Saboor at 01:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)