Bill Colwill turns back the clock 20 years to a World Cup staged in London and an England team’s finest couple of hours On Sunday October 19, 19…
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Category: Sports digest
Do you know your RSS from your elbow?
Three-quarters of us have never heard of VOD (video on demand), according to the Nielsen/NetRatings poll. Almost as many - 70% - haven't got a clue wh…
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The Russians are coming…
Much has been made of the growing sporting power of China. But it seems that another slumbering giant from the East may also be waking up to be a real…
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Goal clips, or real sports news?
“Does the Ten O’Clock News do enough sport? Should we do all the main football results? Should we show match action come what may?”…
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Does Donald Rumsfeld cheat at squash?
Slate, MSN's online magazine, is always worth a look, though usually more for its political and feature writing than its sports coverage. But with a h…
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Easy Ryders line up for SJA Awards
The hug on the 16th green at the K Club on Sunday said so much: the gesture from Tiger Woods demonstrated the world’s top sportsman also has a d…
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Wembley towers over Carter’s reign
Patrick Carter's four-year stay as chairman of Sport England is soon to end, the changes he has made to the organisation still having an impact…
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Sports journalism – women’s final frontier?
According to an SJA survey, less than 10% of British sports journalists are women. Odette Butson tries to find the reasons why…
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How objective is our journalism?
We, as sports journalists, stand accused of complicity by no less august a journal than the latest issue of the British Journalism Review. We are said…
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Holyfield and a fight too far
And so we have the case of the former world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, at the age of 43, scheduled to climb through the ropes Friday nigh…
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