STEVEN DOWNES looks back nearly a quarter of a century to remember Mel Batty, and a time when athletics broadcasters made sure that they got the basic…
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Month: August 2011
Accreditation: National track cycling champs
Accreditation for the national track championships, to be staged from September 28 to October 2 at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester is now op…
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Express moves Dunn to London for sports news beat
Matthew Dunn is to move to London as the Daily Express beefs up its sports news coverage in a direct challenge to the Daily Mail…
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“People said I’m a legend, but I don’t look at it like that”
Usain Bolt on legends, LaShawn Merritt's Johnson, Lord Coe on geography, Sir Alex Ferguson on the FA, Ally McCoist on Scottish football and Paul Nixon…
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No other Welsh sportsman can keep up with this Jones
Imagine if after winning a medal at the world championships in Daegu, Dai Greene packed his bags to head off to play for Wales in the rugby World Cup…
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Racy Walker carries baton well for C4 athletics debut
Who said Channel 4 wasn't doing reality TV any more? Live television coverage of the athletics world championships from Korea offer us Big Bolt inste…
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Chitter chatter on Twitter beats Facebook banter
You wouldn't think NORMAN GILLER could be easily offended. But then he discovered how many four-letter words can be fitted in to 140 characters…
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Accreditation: Trampoline world champs, Nov 17-20
The media is invited to the 2011 Trampoline and Tumbling World Championships, to be held at the NIA, Birmingham, November 17-20…
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Weekly rugby titles merge on eve of World Cup
The Rugby Paper, the Surrey-based weekly that was launched by former SJA chairman David Emery three years ago, has bought rival title the Rugby Times…
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“The days of being a laughing stock have gone”
The past week in sport and journalism, in quotes from Andrew Strauss, Graeme Swann, Harry Redknapp, Arsene Wenger and Brian Moore, all compiled by IAN…
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