By Steven Downes I wonder what Hank Aaron is thinking today? Actually, we can probably guess, because Aaron, now the former holder of baseball’…
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Category: Sports digest
NPower skirts around modern sport
From Tanya Aldred, The Guardian You will have seen the NPower girls. From Edgbaston to the The Oval, come rain, come shine, they smile, they wave, the…
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The most famous British sportsman in America
(and not a pouting pop star wife in sight) From Peter Ferguson, Daily Mail Luol Deng is coming … maybe not with the same three-ring-circus razzm…
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The “miracle athlete” in our midst
While Oscar Pistorius grabs the headlines spare a thought for young Ryan Farrington, writes Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian. And use your SJA websit…
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Living legacy of Wenlock’s Games
By Simon Turnbull, Independent on Sunday The unflappable Mrs Smith – the sports co-ordinator at William Brookes School, housed within the same g…
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Don’t pick on the Tour
After this year’s Tour de France enjoyed a grand day out in London and a journey through the Garden of England (pictured above), Geoffrey Wheatc…
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Wimbledon banalities are called “out”
Sean Ingle, on Guardian Unlimited, reviews a week of inanities in the Wimbledon press conference room Only one thing has disturbed the Federers and He…
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The essential rules of sports journalism?
Michael Rosenberg, a sports writer with the Detroit Free Press, has compiled the nine rules of journalism. You’ll need to read the original arti…
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Can London give Tour a shot in the arm?
From William Fotheringham, The Guardian With the Tour de France starting in London in less than four weeks a highly placed member of the company that …
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Fitting award for Sir Beefy
As modern knights of the realm go, can there be any more fitting candidate to sit at Queen Elizabeth’s round table than Ian Botham? In these day…
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