INSIDE OUT - Whether Djokovic, Murray, or anyone else is out there who can compete in the branding and monetizing of the business of tennis like the Roger-Rafa duopoly is a hundred million dollar question.

THE INSIDER - The average domestic player is as dog tired as his Team India counterpart when he lands up for the IPL, and thereafter just goes through the motions for the rest of the year.

PIT STOP PUNDIT - In the battle of the F1 teams, Force India moves up to 6th place in the Constructor’s Championship with Paul di Resta’s 8th position finish at the Italian GP.   

THE INSIDER - In two weeks from now, Indian cricket will have its second all-rounder, again off the field, when N Srinivasan takes over as the BCCI president on 19 September.

INSIDE OUT - There appears to be a marked increase in the attention football has received from Indian and international stakeholders alike.

THE INSIDER - In the end cricket may be a team sport, but a player in India is on his own. Don’t blame the player if he is looking to secure himself first rather than look at the grammar of the sport.

PIT STOP PUNDIT - Belgian GP showed that the sport didn’t always rely on weather to make a race interesting. There were multiple strategies that worked.

THE INSIDER - It was with the advent of the IPL that the meaning of conflict of interest changed altogether. And took on an altogether more insidious form.

PIT STOP PUNDIT - As per Formula Money’s calculations, had the 70:30 split be applied to last year’s data, F1’s owners would have suffered an approx. $126 million loss. 

THE INSIDER - BCCI believes it does a lot of good work and that it is not appreciated enough. But what it does not do, is to show what kind of good work it does.