"Breaking records is healthy. Breaking traditions is a grey area. And selecting only four, not five, Wisden Cricketers of the Year was not a decision …
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Month: April 2011
Anniversary Blues and an East End docker’s strike
NORMAN GILLER was going to take a trip down Memory Lane this week, but instead got diverted down the Cable Street of 50 years ago and asks: don't shoo…
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Media invitation: British rowing team trials, Apr 16-17
More than 100 of Britain's top rowers will be in action at Dorney Lake, Eton, for the GB Rowing Team Senior Trials 2011 on the weekend of April 16 and…
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Former Times man Powell on regional press shortlist
David Powell, the former athletics correspondent for The Times, has been shortlisted for a journalism award - as a weekly newspaper sports writer of t…
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SJA panel criticises “embarrassing” Olympic cash row
IAN COLE, flushed with the success of dominating the floor of the old GLC's Debating Chamber in the style of a 1980s Ken Livingstone, reports on the h…
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“It’s time we carried Tendulkar on our shoulders”
Wayne Rooney's swearing, Andy Carroll's drinking, Mario Balotelli's behaviour, and then the heroic career of Sachin Tendulkar. This week's sporting qu…
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Geoff Harrold, marathon runner and sportswriter
Harrold was a distance runner of some accomplishment whose journalistic training saw him working on IPC business titles in Blackfriars before, during …
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Award-winning athletics producer Martin Webster has died
Barbara Slater, Director BBC Sport, said of him: "Martin was one of the great television producer/directors of his generation"…
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Seven is not this bookmaker’s lucky number
"Dettori Day", nearly 15 years ago, delighted punters and had the bookies running for cover. Not quickly enough in the case of Gary Wiltshire, who tel…
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SJA’s Olympic tour takes members closer to 2012
It will soon be the case that SJA members' tours of London's Olympic Park will be done on foot, between the MPC and the sport venues, while they are w…
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