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There's never been more hype around a singular player in the women’s division than the Caitlin Clark spectacle. It seemed that the basketball world was waiting, stirring in anticipation of a new star who could bring excitement to and for the game - with a playing style and a disbelief factor built to dominate defences. Enter Caitlin Clark. Not to hype up Clark beyond reason, but there’s undeniably a Women’s Basketball before and after her.

The World Cup began and ended with a bang, but amid the fireworks, it left a smokescreen of whispers in its wake—those of an unfortunate future. Restrictions on the movement of entire teams, strict policing and immigration checks of professional athletes, entire nations barred from even travelling.

India are coming off a dominant T20I World Cup campaign, but their new squad selection shows that they are doubling down on their winning formula: evolution. The intent is clear — eye a hat-trick of World Cup trophies, and reward merit over legacy. It is a reset based on form, role clarity and long-term planning. In today’s era of fast-paced T20 cricket, the best teams evolve before they are forced to, and India are showcasing that exact champion mentality.

The T20 World Cup is the most coveted prize in women’s cricket. For India, it has been its most persistent tormentor. Near-misses and heartbreaks have proved the pattern of India’s long pursuit of T20I glory. Despite coming painfully close on multiple occasions, the Women in Blue have never won the competition. But if there is any year in which they arrive with better odds, it is this one...

It’s that time of the quadrennial again. Not the Olympics, not the Commonwealth Games, not the ICC Cricket World Cup. It is the biggest of them all. Born in Paris. Forged in the favelas of Brazil. Held in Buenos Aires currently. The FIFA World Cup returns to North America, 32 years on from 1994, when the famous yellow of Brazil flew highest on a day Robert Baggio famously skied his decisive penalty and ‘died standing’.

It’s April, it’s APL! There is no better place to spend one of spring’s last weekends on campus than on the football field watching teams fight it out for Ashoka’s (arguably) most important intra-college trophy; the Ashoka Premier League. People who cheered for the Ashokan football teams on the sideline during Agneepath now have the chance to prove themselves on the same ground where the Alums claimed glory this year, proving their talent in the best way possible in front of

Aneek Chatterjee reflects on grief, memory, and the rediscovery of joy through Agneepath 7.0

The squash courts at Ashoka sit tucked into the dim first-floor corridor of the Sports Block. Hundreds of students pass them daily on the way to the gym, but few bat an eye. The majority of students on campus have either never heard of squash or have never had the opportunity to play the sport growing up, so it’s not a sport they instinctively try out. This is exactly what the squash team is trying to address with their daily team practices and tournaments. We spoke to Abhay

The final day of Agneepath 7.0 delivered drama, heartbreak and joy aplenty. The Ashoka Red teams won gold in women’s football, women’s badminton, men’s cricket, tennis and chess, while there were silvers for men’s football (Blue), women’s basketball, men’s badminton, squash (all Red) and pool, and bronze in shooting. The women’s badminton team had a Sunday to remember, sweeping Shiv Nadar University 3-0 in the semifinal and then beating longtime rivals, OP Jindal Global Univ

Perseverance. For the seventh edition of Ashoka’s sports fest ‘Agneepath’, Edict Sports decided to sit down and talk to members of the women’s football team including the current leadership, Priyanshi Singh (UG2023) and Sanjna Sridhar (UG2023) along with Nihar Roy (UG2024) and Susanna John (UG2024). After I had finished completing the set of interviews, I sat down, wondering how I could put down the stories and insights I had gleaned from my conversations onto paper for the A