“I have always tried to set goals for myself, stuff like scoring a certain number of runs for England or being part of a World Cup-winning team.…
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Category: Sports digest
In search of sport’s level playing field
A debate about media coverage of women’s sport almost missed the most fundamental point, says STEVEN DOWNES I normally turn off Radio 4 just bef…
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Lahore terror attack ends sporting immunity
TED CORBETT had reason to believe that sport, and sports journalists, would not be targeted by terrorists. After this week’s events in Pakistan,…
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Dear Barbara… Save us from the bland and weak
Commentary by Randall Northam Open letter to Barbara Slater, new head of sport at the BBC…
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Spare us from the Flat-pack Olympics
2012 commentary by Steven Downes Just over 60 years ago, my grandfather took my then eight-year-old father on a bus ride through south London. It was …
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Macey: a career spent pushing it just too far
OWEN SLOT, a past winner at the SJA British Sports Journalism Awards, interviews Dean Macey, one of the sportsman to retire in 2008 who we will all mi…
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London’s Olympic paradise lost?
2012 Commentary by Don Anthony In July 1908, during the first London Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin heard a sermon in St Paul’s Cathedral. …
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Olympic cut-backs? Sport has never had it so good
Even the under-achievers in Beijing, such as UK Athletics, came away from Wednesday’s grant announcements with near-parity with what they had r…
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Who’s who in cricket’s press box
As the second Test between England and South Africa begins in Headingley, who are the cricket writers who will be covering Andrew Flintoff's return to…
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Alliss through the looking glass
As the summer sporting season moves from tennis in south-west London, northwards to golf and, before the seaside links of Royal Birkdale, this week to…
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