With most of the Olympic world in Lausanne this week for an important Executive Board meeting on 2016 bid cities and possible new sports for the Games…
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Month: June 2009
Button, Murray, Lions and Tiger: there’s a lot of sport
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: For IAN STAFFORD, the height of summer means serial highs in sport There are times when the sports sections of our national ne…
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Reporter’s highway shake-down in South Africa
From Mike Collett, Reuters, in South Africa FIFA president Sepp Blatter, World Cup organiser Danny Jordaan and just about everyone else involved in th…
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Fans spurred into making piece of history
How do you fairly review a book written by a prominent SJA member about Tottenham Hotspur? Give it to ANTON RIPPON, someone who supports Dave Mackay&#…
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Scott awarded MBE in birthday honours
SJA member Brough Scott, the founder of the Racing Post and leading sportswriter with the Sunday Times and most recently the Sunday Telegraph, has bee…
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Squash ready to boast of its Olympic credentials
The Squash 2016 bid team is making final preparations for its presentation of the low-cost high-impact sport to the International Olympic Committee (I…
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Media advisory: BOA meeting
Have a Hart: Happy Hammer wins Variety award
NORMAN GILLER applauds an award for an old mate A question for you: who has been the greatest all-round journalist you have worked with? I mean somebo…
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Local microsites offer a future for sports reporters
“As newspapers cut budgets and payrolls, the press boxes at major league ballparks are becoming increasingly lonely places, signaling a future w…
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Bond drops “bungs” libel action against BBC
Kevin Bond has dropped his libel action against BBC’s Panorama programme, just days before it was due to be heard in court.…
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