March 2021 – Sports Journalists’ Association

March 27, 2021April 1, 2021

SJA Notebook: Tokyo 2020 officials seek to reduce Games accreditations

Tokyo 2020 officials are seeking to slash the number of accreditations for this year’s Olympics and Paralympics, according to local media report…

March 26, 2021March 26, 2021

Why angry French women sports journalists say enough is enough

French sports journalist Marie Portolano has found herself at the centre of a storm after her thought-provoking documentary ‘I’m not a slu…

March 23, 2021March 31, 2021

Sports Journalists’ Association Annual General Meeting 2021

This is to give formal notice that the Annual General Meeting of the Sports Journalists’ Association will be held on 15th April 2021 at 1230. In…

March 23, 2021

The Cricketer raises its bat to a swashbuckling century

By PHILIP BARKER “The popularity of and interest in cricket not only here, but in every part of the world where Englishmen are gathered was never gr…

March 18, 2021

How grandson of a slave became Britain’s first black peer – the amazing story of cricketer Learie Constantine

Book review by ERIC BROWN Learie Constantine was a big man with a laugh to match. His guffaw reverberated around a room while his shoulders and chest …

March 17, 2021March 18, 2021

Rounding up a great night for the photographers, with a little help from Rick Stein

One of the delights at the British Sports Journalism Awards event is seeing the photographers shed their waterproofs and thermals and, er, let their h…

March 16, 2021

He came to my house, can in hand, and we would have a long, liquid dinner and I’d get him another pay rise – Burgess on Johnson

CHARLIE BURGESS, founding sports editor of The Independent and the man who gave Martin Johnson his break in national newspapers, tells the story behin…

March 16, 2021March 16, 2021

Month: March 2021