Andy Cairns, the man behind the Sky Sports News phenomenon, has decided to call it a day after three decades with the broadcaster. Cairns, who is also…
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Month: April 2019
London Marathon media centre named after Vikki Orvice
Vikki Orvice was uppermost in many journalists’ minds on Sunday following an unprecedented tribute at the London Marathon. Vikki, who died two m…
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Report a Cup final? No, you’re a woman – the amazing tale of Mary Raine in 1969
Mary Raine was a pioneering football journalist who made history by becoming the first woman to be heard on Sports Report. PHILIP BARKER tells her ext…
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Longmore was Sindy’s ‘burnished one, our glittering prize’
From Neil Morton, former Sports Editor, Independent on Sunday Andrew Longmore’s six years as chief sports writer for the Independent On Sunday …
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Longmore: integrity to his work, elegance to his writing, byline a hallmark of truth
By Malcolm Folley, Chief Sports Reporter, Mail on Sunday (1992-2014) Andrew Longmore called just over a fortnight ago. In his usual breezy manner, he …
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Award-winning journalist Longmore dies at 65
SJA award-winner Andrew Longmore, former chief sportswriter of the Independent on Sunday and for many years senior sportswriter of The Sunday Times un…
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Derby Telegraph columnist Rippon axed after 20 years
LONG-serving SJA member and award-winning newspaper columnist Anton Rippon has been dropped by the paper for which he has written for the past 20 year…
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ICC offer workshops and $500 prize to young cricket writers
The Cricket Writers Club have been tasked by the ICC to deliver a series of workshops for aspiring young cricket writers during the forthcoming World …
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The Big Match: hail the televised football revolution
Half a century ago The Big Match was just completing its first season. PHILIP BARKER recalls how John Bromley and Jimmy Hill revolutionised televised …
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Norm ‘smashes it’ in fund-raiser for pal Ellis
Stand up and take a bow Keith Nancarrow – known universally as Norm – who ‘smashed’ the Brighton Marathon on Sunday two years afte…
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