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September 1, 2017September 30, 2017

Award-winner Blackbrow told ‘you’ll make a good dustman’

Award-winning former Daily Mail photographer Ted Blackbrow has died after a short illness, aged 78. One of the finest sports and news photographers of…

July 13, 2017July 27, 2017

Mail man James, who forecast England 1966 win, dies at 87

Brian James, an outstanding sports and feature writer from the early 1960s through to the turn of the century, has died of heart failure at the age of…

May 1, 2017July 26, 2017

Peter Lea, former Daily Mail sports editor, has died

Peter Lea, sports editor of the Daily Mail from 1987-1990, died on Friday at age 81. He had been ill since breaking a leg in a fall at home in Decembe…

February 28, 2017May 1, 2017

Empathy, excellence and realism: SJA awards night

The day after the night before and all our 2016 SJA British Sports Journalism Award winners have had time to let their success sink in. Committee memb…

February 27, 2017May 1, 2017

Top prizes for Hayward and the Daily Mail

PETER JACKSON, chairman of the writing judges, reports on a gala occasion to celebrate the Oscars of British sports journalism on a night when all the…

February 14, 2017July 26, 2017

Mail man Webster’s legacy to legend ‘Wor Jackie’

Bryan Webster, the former Daily Mail assistant editor and northern sports editor, died on Sunday, aged 84. Bryan’s death came only days after hi…

December 30, 2016December 31, 2016

Mail on Sunday sports editor Alison Kervin receives OBE

'Although the award's presented to me, it's very much a tribute to a wonderful team at Sportsmail and everything we've done'…

December 20, 2016January 3, 2017

Red Nev and his barely read newspapers

VIEW FROM THE SOFA: Former Manchester United and England defender Gary Neville created a stir last month with some of his comments in his new role as …

November 19, 2016November 19, 2016

Ron Beagley: a legend of his own lunchtimes

Beagley served on what was then the Sports Writers' Association's committee from the 1960s into the 1980s, when for a long period he was the official …

November 17, 2016November 18, 2016

Nick Townsend is appointed as SJA secretary

The SJA is pleased to announce that our new secretary, with immediate effect, is Nick Townsend…