David Smith, a sports reporter with the Evening Standard for nearly 30 years, has been made redundant in the latest cull of staff which will see the n…
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Month: December 2009
Media advisory: BOA curling team
Simmonds and Lister enjoy record-breaking 2009
TOM DEGUN outlines the outstanding achievements of 2009’s joint winners of the SJA’s Bill McGowran Trophy Disability athletes Ellie Simmon…
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UK Sport delivers additional £7m sports funding
From UK Sport UK Sport has today taken a major step to secure a more certain environment for Olympic and Paralympic sports in the current economic cli…
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Old school ties bind at our piss-up in The Brewery
The morning after the lunch before, NORMAN GILLER admits to being a bit of a song and dance man at yesterday’s 61st annual SJA British Sports Aw…
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SJA award recognises hockey’s annus mirabilis
At yesterday’s SJA British Sports Awards, Philip Kimberley (right) and David Faulkner collected the JL Manning Award for outstanding contributio…
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Edwards leads her cricketers to another victory
England’s women cricketers land a shock win over their male counterparts as they are named SJA Team of the Year, while Jessica Ennis and Jenson …
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New rules of sports journalism: lend no pencils
From Frank Keating, The Guardian I had just been reading how the current financial gloom was causing despair among the many thousands of university st…
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Tennis writers reward grass roots performance
The Lawn Tennis Writers’ Association today presented their annual award for services to tennis to Dave Kimpton, the head groundsman at Queens Cl…
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South Africa 2010: But what about the poverty?
JOHN CROSS offers an alternative view of South Africa, host nation for football’s 2010 World Cup…
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