The International Table Tennis Federation is offering three young journalists the opportunity to attend the World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb…
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Month: January 2007
Football commentary goes back to square one
Today is the 80th anniversary of the first football commentary on the wireless. The BBC is to mark the occasion with special 1920s-style coverage of M…
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Vialli holds back secrets of the dressing room
Randall Northam continues to work his way through the Bookie Prize shortlist, and here deals with The Italian Job which has nothing to do with Michael…
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IMG deal makes TV sports rights hot properties again
IMG, the sports and media management agency which represents Tiger Woods and Maria Sharapova (pictured left at the Australian Open), and which is alre…
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European gymnastics accreditation
From Vera Atkinson, British Gymnastics Media accreditation for the European championships in artistic gymnastics in Amsterdam (April 23-29) and in rhy…
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Happy birthday, Muhammad Ali – 65 today
Davis Miller has written this tribute in the Los Angeles Times I first became a serious Muhammad Ali watcher in January 1964. He’d just turned 2…
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Brought to book: William Hill responds
After seeing our review of Unforgivable Blackness, the 2004-published book which won the 2006 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, Graham Sharp…
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Is Test Match Special under threat?
Arch-iconoclast Michael Henderson has a pop at the BBC for rumoured plans to alter that great broadcasting tradition, Test Match Special. Post your co…
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Book’s a winner, but two years too late
Steven Downes reviews Geoffrey Ward’s Unforgivable Blackness, his outstanding 2004 biography of Jack Johnson that won the 2006 Sports Book of th…
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Have something to say? I don’t care
Joel Stein, in the LA Times, questions the current fashion for newspaper interactivity Don’t email me. That address on the bottom of this column…
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