Janet Ruff, the former Guardian sports correspondent, died on Tuesday after a long illness. She was 73.
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19 Aug
2010
2010
American T&F expert Scott Davis has died
Scott Davis, a larger-than-life American track and field statistician, announcer and journalist, has died after a 13-year battle with cancer. The Californian, whose smile would brighten the press tribune at many a dull morning’s session at a world championships or Olympics, was 66, but he had been working right up to last month, when he [...]
Continue reading →The British Athletics Writers’ Annual Awards dinner should revert to a smaller, less corporate event from 2011.
Continue reading →Old track buff NORMAN GILLER looks back to this day in 1966, and glances forward to the future of one sport on TV It was athletics that first hooked me into wanting to be a sportswriter. I can sit you down and reel off the track and field gold medallists in the 1952 and 1956 [...]
Continue reading →Ahead of this week’s European athletics championships in Barcelona, BBC television presenter and SJA member JOHN INVERDALE argues that the sport needs to modernise its relationship with TV People within the sport have to understand that there is still a certain amount of disenchantment with athletics and people need to be won back to the [...]
Continue reading →The world’s athletics journalists are very familiar with the astonishingly detailed and helpful work of Mark Butler, the BBC’s ever-diligent athletics statistician.
Continue reading →Doug Gillon has announced he is to retire as The Herald‘s staff athletics correspondent, a job he has held for 34 years.
Continue reading →Jonathan McEvoy, the Daily Mail‘s Formula 1 reporter since 2006, has been appointed as the paper’s Olympics correspondent in the run-up to London 2012. In an unrelated development, PA Sport is not renewing the contract of its athletics reporter of the past 12 years, Dave Martin.
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