Rugby Featured A Cup Champion Before The Final Week's Play? With age old rivalries happening tomorrow, Trinity stands firm with one hand on the Cup segment title of the Dialog Schools Rugby League, while three teams still hang on...
On This Day Featured The Captain Who Fought The Smallpox Outbreak Born today in 1894, Dr. C.H. Gunasekara is a hallowed name in Royal College Cricket like his other family members, and the first Ceylonese to play County Cricket in England.
Rugby Featured Round 2 - Are You Not Entertained Enough? Trinity continues their dream run, Royal and Isipathana find their winning ways again with narrow wins, which means this week's encounters could all go down to the wire!
Rugby Featured The Title Race Is On - Trinity Take The Lead! Trinity College remain the only unbeaten team at the start of Round 2 of the Cup Segment, while Isipathana and Royal make comeback wins from their Round 1 defeats.
Rugby Featured Knockout Rematches And The Title Decider As round 2 of the School's Rugby League commences tomorrow, the Cup segment will consist of rematches from this year's Knockouts Tournament and trophy matches
On This Day Featured A Sports Minister Whose Name Stood For 'Vision' V.A. Sugathadasa OBE who was born today in 1912, is best remembered for his generous contributions as Mayor of Colombo, and his services as Ceylon's First Minister of Sports.
Rugby Featured The Box Office Clashes And Dress Rehearsals With 4 out of the 5 unbeaten teams facing each other this weekend in two highly anticipated matches, who will be the final team to qualify for the Cup segment?
Rugby Who Can Make The Cut For The Cup Segment? With 6 teams unbeaten after week 3 in the Schools' Rugby League, here are the rest who can still make it to the Top 2 of their groups for the Cup segment of Division 1!
On This Day Mr. Leslie - The Founder Of University Games Born today in 1921, Mr. Leslie Handunge was not only the first boxer from Ceylon to win a bout at the 1948 Olympics, but also laid the foundation for Sri Lanka University Sports.
Stories The 'Keeper of Faith' and Promise to his Son Former Zimbabwe Captain Tatenda Taibu once 'came out of retirement' as an overseas player for Badureliya CC in 2019 because his son never had the chance to see him play!
Tennis Anjana, A Familiar Face At The Grand Slams! Anjana De Silva, one of the well known names in the Sri Lankan Tennis circuit as a Tournament Referee, was the only Asian Line Judge at this year's French Open Finals
On This Day The Day When Sri Lanka Braved Thomson's Fury 50 years ago today, Sri Lanka showed their fighting spirit as they faced one of Cricket's deadliest duos - Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee in the World Cup against Australia.
Members only Facts Gauder, 'Sandy Gardens' And Sri Lanka Rugby As Adam Gauder, the Australian born rugby player of Sri Lankan descent, gets called into the national team again, let's look at his origins and the many roads in Wellawatte!
On This Day 'Karu Ayya' - A Genius In Lyrics And Commentary! Karunaratne Abeysekera who was born 95 years ago today, was not only a lyrical genius behind more that 2000 songs but also introduced Sinhala Cricket Commentary
On This Day Mathews - The Match Winner Of Yesteryear Angelo Mathews who turns 38 years today, embodies many nostalgic memories from his 17 year long career as a match winning all rounder of generational talent.
On This Day Mahanama - A Big Name Who Walked The Talk! Roshan Mahanama who turns 59 years today, is remembered for his fighting knocks and safe hands in the outfield for Sri Lanka, before he became an ICC Match Referee.
On This Day Wimalasena, A Man Who Weathered The Storm Wimalasena Perera who turns 80 years today, ran the Marathon at high altitude in the 1968 Mexico Olympics and got to know he finished 51st the next day in hospital.
Cricket She Let The Ladies Play The Gentleman's Game An Actress turned Administrator, Mrs.Gwen Herat will be remembered for her giant leaps in Cricket as the Founding President of the Sri Lanka Women's Cricket Association
On This Day 'Billiard' Lafir - The First Ever World Champion M.J.M. Lafir who was born today in 1930, is a story that started with marbles and a broomstick, and ends with Sri Lanka's first world championship title in any sport!
Members only On This Day Mahela - A Mastermind In The Shortest Format Mahela Jayawardene who turns 48 years today, is an underrated example of format adaptation, with a strike rate in T20Is greater than Test and ODIs combined!
On This Day David Wilkie - A Pioneer Of The Swimming Gear It's been a year since the passing of former Olympian Gold medalist David Wilkie MBE, born in Ceylon and was the first to use the goggles and cap for competitive swimming
On This Day Sir Arthur - The Author And First Class Cricketer Born on 'Sherlock Holmes Day' today, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle named the fictional detective after a Nottinghamshire Cricketer and once took the wicket of W.G. Grace!
On This Day Some Were Fast, And There Was 'Summa' Sumanthiran Navaratnam, whose centenary birth anniversary falls today, was once dubbed the 'Bolt of Asia' and a household name in Rugby from Player to President
Members only On This Day Ireland's Forgotten Hero Who Was Born In Ceylon Born on this day in 1907 in Nuwara Eliya, Robert Tisdall left Ceylon long before he won the Gold medal for Ireland in the Men's 400m Hurdles at the 1932 Olympic Games
Stories Aravinda's First Taste of England: Where Dreams Were Forged A 15 year old teenager stepped onto a plane for the very first time, full of excitement, on his way to England with his U19 cricket team. That was Aravinda de Silva's reality in 1981...
