The SJA Olympic lunch, co-hosted by BT Vision and being staged at BT Tower on April 14 now has a confirmed guest list. In addition to Sir Keith Mills …
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Month: March 2008
Gloucester to stage European championships
Gloucester is to host the European Junior Synchronised Swimming Championships 2009 after LEN, the European federation for aquatic sports, awarded the …
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BBC ready for relaunch of sport website
From Guardian Unlimited The BBC is to roll out the next phase in the relaunch of its internet offering next week, giving its news and sport websites a…
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Another giant-killing for Gay Meadow
James Lawton was not the only SJA member to figure among the prize-winners at the sports books awards last week. Shropshire-based photographer MATTHEW…
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BBC secures Wimbledon rights until 2014
The BBC has secured the rights to Wimbledon until 2014 in a deal designed to overhaul its coverage of the event for the digital age. The BBC, which pa…
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2008 SJA Annual General Meeting
This year’s Sports Journalists’ Association annual meeting is to be held at the offices of UK Sport at 40 Bernard Street, London, WC1N 1…
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Generous guests raise £4,000 for Journalists’ Charity
The record-breaking SJA British Sports Journalism Awards on March 17 established another record in the Association’s 60-year history: for the am…
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Protests disrupt lighting of Olympic torch
From Philip Barker, Olympia, Greece Protesters unfurled black flags bearing handcuffs in the shape of the Olympic logo to interrupt the ceremony as th…
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Reaching heights with a peek at disaster
ANTON RIPPON reviews Nigel Vardy’s mountaineering epic, Once Bitten In April 1999, Nigel Vardy was one of three British climbers caught in appal…
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Toronto Sun’s George Gross dies
George Gross, the Toronto Sun‘s first sports editor and a major figure in Canadian sports journalism, died early Friday at his Toronto home. He …
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