TALES FROM THE TOY DEPARTMENT: To conclude our series celebrating 60 years of sports journalism, we reprint HUGH McILVANNEY’s 1980 account of th…
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Month: December 2008
MBE for CMJ in New Year’s honours
In a New Year Honours’ list dominated by Olympic figures, headed by the widely trailed knighthood for the 2008 SJA Sportsman of the Year Chris H…
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Sports journalism in 2008: cheaper, but not better?
TALES FROM THE TOY DEPARTMENT: In the penultimate “chapter” on the developments in sports journalism in the 60 years of the SJA, the Assoc…
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Norman Dixon leaves Fleet St a quieter place
By Barry Newcombe Norman Dixon, the former deputy sports editor of the Daily Express when it was one of the world’s most successful newspapers, …
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SJA 2009 subs – make sure you pay yours
SJA subscription renewals are due from January 1, so please move early to make sure your standing orders are set up for the correct amount to go into …
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Tom Jenkins’ sports pictures of the year
Stelling starts Countdown for Broadcast awards
Voting has opened for SJA members to choose their Sports Broadcaster and Sports Programme of the Year.…
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Quotes of the Year 2008
Here’s a brief selection of some of the sports quotes of the past year – add your own favourites in the Comments section below OLYMPICS …
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Coe’s sporting hero of 2008: Christine Ohuruogu
LORD COE, in the Daily Telegraph, picks his sporting hero of 2008 By proposing Christine Ohuruogu as our sporting hero of the year, I realise itâ€â…
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