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Growth in Indian-American Population Spurs Popularity of Cricket in United States

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:25:22 +0000

Baseball has long been considered America’s pastime. But another team sport played with a bat and ball is appearing in increasing evidence on playing fields in the United States. Cricket is an older, more universally popular sport, and its growth in the United States can be attributed in large part to the larger numbers of South Asians who have immigrated to this country.

Cricket can be traced back to 16th century England, where the first reference to the game was made in a 1598 court case, which spoke of a “creckett” match played in Guildford, Surrey in 1550. The first recorded match took place in Kent in 1646. As the game evolved into a competition of two 11-player, bat-and-ball teams arrayed against each other on a field, attempting to score runs through a series of innings, the sport’s popularity spread to many of England’s colonies, including Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, South Africa and India.

As Indian immigration to the United States has grown — there are now about 2.81 million Americans of Indian ancestry — cricket clubs in the United States have proliferated. On a geographic basis, major cricket clubs are found throughout the country, but year-round competition is clustered in Florida, Texas and California due to the warmer weather found in those states.

Cricket is played by women as well as men, and there are now 12 women’s cricket clubs alone in the United States.

Cricket is also played at colleges and universities in the United States. In those venues, the ethnic diversity of the game’s players is on full display. And because students from cricket-passionate countries are in strong evidence on American campuses — Indians, for example, are now the second-largest foreign student group in the United States — there is an ample supply of collegiate participants and fans for the sport.

The large number of Indians studying at American colleges and universities translates into a highly educated community — 40 percent of Indians in the United States have a master’s degree, doctorate or other professional degree, five times the national average. That fact, in turn, contributes to the U.S. Census Bureau’s finding that Indian Americans have the highest household income of all ethnic groups in the United States.

The wealthier the household income, the more disposable income a family has to spend on leisure activities, including sporting events. And with Indian-American household income leading the nation, the exclamation “play ball” could someday be heard on playing fields devoted to cricket as often as those to baseball.

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Oscar Pistorius, better known as "Blade Runner" goes on trial Monday for allegedly murdering his girlfriend.

admin — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 17:11:19 +0000

The murder trial for “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius begins Monday in South Africa. He got that nickname because of the prosthetics used while running and competing in the Olympics. The case received wide publicity when he shot his girlfriend while she was in the bathroom of his home. “Blade Runner” claims that he was acting in self-defense at the time and thought he was in the midst by a home invasion. South Africa has a high crime rate and a lot of violent crimes. There have been allegations that Pistorius often went into violent rages and that was that there was no reason to suspect a home invasion was occurring at the time of his girlfriend’s death. Thus, the case is very similar to the “Stand your ground” trials we are seeing in Florida and how “reasonable” it is for a suspect to be in fear for their lives. The “Blade Runner” faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

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A Remote Chance Of Visiting a Volcano

admin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:08:52 +0000

Even though he grew up in the archipelago, Tristan da Cunha, a five to six day boat ride from Cape Town, South Africa, the most remote inhabited island in the South Atlantic, Sean Paletta was allergic to fish. It was difficult as a child because the small town’s mainstay is fishing and farming, so Sean ate a lot of potatoes instead. Sean was also oblivious to the fact that his settlement sat at the base of an active volcano.

Now overlooking Los Angeles in his luxury high-rise penthouse, he just cannot believe how he made it this far, literally. Some series of odd events happened when he just turned 21 after celebrating his birthday. A tourist named Alan McNabb from one of the luxury liners visited the island and happened to bump into him at the one and only pub in the settlement. Alan told Sean about his shampoo company out in California and offered Sean a job. Many years later, Sean found himself owning and running the company after the old man bequeathed it him.

Now in his late 30s, battling homesickness was becoming harder and harder. He wanted to take a hiatus and visit his old little island but he did not want to go alone, so he asked his friend Matt Lockhard, a California independent health insurance agent, to come and accompany him. But this time, instead of taking freight ships to the island, he planned to take his yacht.

“Thanks, but no thanks, Sean,” said Matt, declining Sean’s offer. “I heard that the seas are so rough down there that ships and freights sometimes cannot make it into the harbor, and there is always a chance that the volcano will erupt. It will be our luck!”

“So, are you saying that it’s a remote chance that you will go to the remotest island in the world with me, Matt?” Sean asked.

“Yup, you got that right!” Matt exclaimed.

“Hey, but at least you and I have great health insurance now. So live a little and hit the high seas with me!”

Matt and Sean found themselves on the island six months later chasing the infamous Northern Rockhopper Penguins.

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