Michael Johnson, the 400 metres world record-holder, has given his support to Glasgow’s bid to bring the 2014 Commonwealth Games to Scotland. D…
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Month: December 2006
Pound offers his penny’s worth on drugs
Book review by Michele Verroken Dick Pound’s previous book, Inside the Olympics, was released on the eve of the Athens Games, just in time to be…
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Political correctness, or sloppy work?
A recent post on Salon.com, the online magazine, poses the question: "Why is there so much racism in the broadcast booth?"…
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European athletics newsletter now online
From European AA The latest European athletics newsletter is now available online, and includes a preview of this weekend’s SPAR European Cross-…
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A poet’s lament: letter from Adelaide
SJA member David Fine, official Tour poet with the Barmy Army in Australia, has filed his latest poem from Adelaide following yesterday’s extrao…
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Kiss of life for Press Gazette
The Press Gazette, for 41 years the British journalist’s trade journal, will be back on sale this Friday after a one-week hiatus.…
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Ban on web coverage of cricket World Cup
By Steven Downes Over-by-over internet coverage of next year’s cricket World Cup in the West Indies could be under threat from new rules issued …
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Runner sprints away from the facts
Book review by Randall Northam: Barefoot Runner by Paul Rambali I tend to agree with Frank Keating, when he wrote in The Guardian a few weeks ago: …
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Alex Bannister, an appreciation
Alex Bannister, one of the top cricket writers of the post-war years, who covered the sport for the Daily Mail between 1947 and 1979, has died, aged 9…
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SJA website welcomes Equestrians and Athletes
The SJA website today proudly welcomes members of the British Equestrian Writers’ Association (BEWA) and British Athletics Writers’ Associ…
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