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     Anand_n Hero Username: Anand_n Post Number: 15889 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 107.77.66.17 Rating: N/A |
I tried the current version and it was not anywhere close to the older publication - so gave up on it 
atleast he kept the pictures . Our family moved so many times and magazines were the first to be dumped .. But good ol days - walking around with a transistor glued to the ear listening to cricket commentary from Sushil Doshi& co before tv became a staple - btw cricket commentary and vividh bharathi mom used to say they will have surgically detach the transistor from my ear The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet : James Oppenheim | ||
| Filmbuff Side Hero Username: Filmbuff Post Number: 4878 Registered: 11-2011 Posted From: 117.198.140.125 Rating: N/A |
One of these was edited by Gavaskar, if i remember. But both Sportsworld and Sportsweek had bad quality print and page quality etc. Regarding Sportstar, my bloody bugger of a brother just cut out all the full size picture pages, had them filed and sold away the editions so i don't have the text or write ups of many early sportstars. My brother took the "a picture is worth a thousand words" rather literally. | ||
| Whyme Side Hero Username: Whyme Post Number: 8834 Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 107.214.64.27 Rating: N/A |
Readers Digest fascinated me about America.. We subscribed rd at home.. But my uncle subscribed rd from 70s - I used to dig all those old issues and read.. | ||
| Side Hero Username: Reddit Post Number: 6195 Registered: 05-2013 Posted From: 122.175.11.30 Rating: N/A |
I don't remember reading sportsworld but the other two & Readers digest were a regular thing at home. Even now I subscribe to readers digest. Spend less time trying to be brilliant and more time trying to avoid obvious stupidity. | ||
| Anand_n Hero Username: Anand_n Post Number: 15888 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 107.77.66.17 Rating: N/A |
Reddit , That article took me back in time frowing up on sportstar, sportsworld and sportsweek indeed - and Junior Science digest, CSR , and readers digest - mom used to contribure recipes to Femia/ eve's weekly so those as welll - no dearth of reading material in the house You all are much younger and probably had more channels but as the article said DD had a great mix of all sport back in 80s The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet : James Oppenheim | ||
| Whyme Side Hero Username: Whyme Post Number: 8832 Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 107.214.64.27 Rating: N/A |
Yes.. It's a combo of the photography and the sports person.. I also had a poster of golfer jack Nicklaus hitting the ball out of sand.. Very good phot shot too.. | ||
| Side Hero Username: Reddit Post Number: 6193 Registered: 05-2013 Posted From: 122.175.11.30 Rating: N/A |
http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/sports/growing-up-on- sportstar Spend less time trying to be brilliant and more time trying to avoid obvious stupidity. | ||
| Anand_n Hero Username: Anand_n Post Number: 15887 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 107.77.66.17 Rating: N/A |
Sports World used to have good football/soccer coverage - being an Anand bazar patrika publication from Calcutta ..had some fullpage action shots of Socrates, Zico, Paulo Rossi from that mag The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet : James Oppenheim | ||
| Filmbuff Side Hero Username: Filmbuff Post Number: 4867 Registered: 11-2011 Posted From: 117.198.132.211 Rating: N/A |
Actually i was a never a big fan of the centerspreads as they were just photos of the sportsmen, most of them were not in action...i used to like the mid 80s Sportstars, they used to have some brilliant action photographs by this photographer i grew to admire called Adrian Murrell. I still have all all those page size photographs carefully stored..i need to scan them so that time does not destroy them...if you want to admire a Vengsarkar cover drive or a Greenidge hook shot or Hadlee in full stride, i have all those in glorious Adrian Murrell photos. | ||
| Jambalahaart_raja Side Hero Username: Jambalahaart_raja Post Number: 4869 Registered: 07-2008 Posted From: 24.45.102.22 Rating: N/A |
 wall meeda poster ante... madonna, samantha foxx, anna nicole.. admiration ki takkuva... fantasizing ki ekkuva... | ||
| Whyme Side Hero Username: Whyme Post Number: 8831 Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 107.214.64.27 Rating: N/A |
I think yes. They would have been of some worth I used to cycle them - so some ones will go under my mattress so they don't get crumpled and new ones would go up.. Also had maradona, ruud gullit | ||
| Anand_n Hero Username: Anand_n Post Number: 15886 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 72.179.190.228 Rating: N/A |
I used to have one - don't recall when it was published.. Does sportstar have an online archive of their posters ? Would be collectors items now The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet : James Oppenheim | ||
| Filmbuff Side Hero Username: Filmbuff Post Number: 4866 Registered: 11-2011 Posted From: 117.198.132.211 Rating: N/A |
I never had sportswoman poster though.i used to adore Martina, but Sportstar never had a decent poster of hers. | ||
| Anand_n Hero Username: Anand_n Post Number: 15885 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 107.77.66.17 Rating: N/A |
This was on my wall too along with the ones i listed in the other thread srikkanth too , my brother called all the soccer ones wilander , cash and edberg did not quite make the wall..The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet : James Oppenheim | ||
| Whyme Side Hero Username: Whyme Post Number: 8829 Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 107.214.64.27 Rating: N/A |
Used to have a great coll of books too.. After I left us all these were plundered, uncared for | ||
| Whyme Side Hero Username: Whyme Post Number: 8828 Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 107.214.64.27 Rating: N/A |
I had Ravi shastri, sunny, kapil nd there was one of viv Richards too.. Also - in tennis there was one of Chris evert Lloyd which was beautiful | ||
| Anand_n Hero Username: Anand_n Post Number: 15884 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 107.77.66.17 Rating: N/A |
Did u have the Ravi Shastri one ? My friend begged and pleaded till i gave mine to her since i was not a fan and she was - it was a good picture though The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet : James Oppenheim | ||
| Whyme Side Hero Username: Whyme Post Number: 8827 Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 107.214.64.27 Rating: N/A |
 Yup.. I too collected so many and put them on the wall | ||
| Filmbuff Side Hero Username: Filmbuff Post Number: 4864 Registered: 11-2011 Posted From: 117.198.132.211 Rating: N/A |
Same pinch...i had that "Purveyor of Power Tennis" centerspread in my room for years till it faded and got torn..i might still have it lying around...i remember looking up the dictionary for the meaning of purveyor, i still remember the meaning...next time i should dig out my stash in Hyderabad and scan it... |
