Another giant of sports writing in this country, and of this Association since the days when it was still the SWA, has died: Malcolm Brodie, a leading…
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Month: January 2013
Kevin Moseley and Dave Horridge: a double blow
Kevin Moseley and Dave Horridge, two leading football writers, have both died in the space of a few days…
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Frank Keating: funeral arrangements
The funeral of Frank Keating will be on February 7 at Belmont Abbey…
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2012 sports broadcasting: who gets your vote?
Voting is now open for SJA members to select their TV and radio sports programmes of 2012 and the sports broadcaster of the year. PHILIP BARKER outlin…
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Arlott, Botham, Giller pay tribute to M’Dear Frank
"Few modern sports writers have brought alive sporting people, past and present, champions and also-rans, as Keating did. Few have written with such …
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Frank Keating, a prince among sports writers
Frank Keating had his own unique style; his writing just fizzed with analogies and adjectives, some of them in the dictionary. It was at once evocativ…
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Spireites book delivered before final deadline
ANTON RIPPON on the eighth and final book from a model sports journalist…
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Time when getting bills was only Hazard of our job
NORMAN GILLER muses on football fairytales and madness, sends birthday wishes to The Greatest, and saves his most imaginative work for his expenses cl…
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Middleton and Walsh win hockey writers’ accolades
Barry Middleton, the 29-year-old Great Britain and England captain, and Kate Walsh, the 32-year-old Great Britain, England and Reading defender, were …
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Off-Side and the mystery of the first football columnist
ANTON RIPPON delves in to The Blizzard to track down the world's first football columnist …
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