SMRI SPORTS HUB CAMPUS
New campus of Sports & Management Research Institute (SMRI) at the SPORTS HUB, Karyavattom, Thiruvananthapuram is inaugurated on May 9, 2018 by Shri T P Ramakrishnan, Minister for Labour, Skills and Excise in the presence of Dr Sriram Venkitaraman IAS (MD, KASE). The inauguration of Kerala Academy for Skills Excellence (KASE) Accredited courses also took […]
CAN ARTIFICIAL FOOTBALL PITCHES CAUSE CANCER?
Just few hours before, one of our Sports Engineering buddies (we call our students buddies) shared a disturbing news headline. “Ex NHS chief blames artificial 3G pitches for the death of his son.” News is from United Kingdom. Lewis Maguire, 20, a goalkeeper from Darlington, passed away on Monday just a month after he thought […]
What you don’t know about Sports Industry?
While taking a session on Sports Management, an enthusiastic student asked “What is the biggest challenge for the development of sports industry in India?” Within nano seconds answer came from me. “In India everyone knows SPORTS. That is the biggest challenge for the development of sports industry.” “Why”, she questioned me. “In India, a person […]
Why India Can’t Make Football for 2022 World Cup?
“Thirty-two teams travelled to Japan and Korea to wage the seventeenth World Cup Championship in the shiny new stadiums of twenty cities. Pakistani children sewed the high-tech ball for Adidas that started rolling on opening night in the stadium at Seoul: a rubber chamber, surrounded by a cloth net covered with foam, all inside a […]
Reviving Heritage Sports
Sports & Management Research Institute (SMRI), the brain child of Synergians Society, the pioneers in reviving heritage sports has joined hands with Sarjapura Malayali Samajam, in later’s efforts to Rekindling Culture & Reviving Tradition by partnering in the organization of OLAPPEEPI 2018, a special camp for students at St. Philomina’s ICSE School, Sarjapura, Bangalore. SMRI […]
Sports Safety Day
Sports & Management Research Institute (SMRI), the first sports management and sports engineering institute in India and Medical Trust Hospital, Ernakulam, the pioneers of sports medicine in Kerala jointly conducted Workshop on Sports Injury Management for Athletes, Parents & Coaches on February 20, 2018 at SMRI Ernakulam campus. The workshop was conducted to observe WORLD […]
Sports Engineering
There is an engineer in every heart. Surely, a sports engineer. Sports Engineering is relatively a new specialized branch in engineering, which is started just 20 years back. In 1998, Sports engineering became an independent discipline due to the efforts of Prof. Steve Haake and Sheffield Hallam University of United Kingdom. The Establishment of International […]
Heritage Games in Onam Celebrations
Everything has a beginning. Sometimes a beginning beyond our imagination. This rule is applicable to sports also. Sport historians used their imagination to describe the origin of some sport events. But, in the case of certain other sport events history is clearly recorded. So, we are clear about the process and pain behind the origin […]
