Boxing
Audley’s lost none of his ability to give chat
The nature of writing articles for a website based on sports means that quite often we skim-read the headlines while getting up-to-date. Certainly, a headline suggesting that David Haye would be targeting the Klitschko brothers (the use of ‘target’ in headlines to reflect the obvious rather than the news is a subject which we have [...]
The Sun - only interested in the real deals
We live in exciting times. Highly anticipated sporting events (and horse racing) are fighting against the snow, England are fighting to save the 3rd Test in South Africa, Portsmouth are fighting for dear life, and Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are fighting a war of words. Which means they’re no longer planning to fight a [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
SPOTY 2009
Having assumed we were going to be here this morning writing a long post about how Jenson Button’s reward was nothing but a reflection of Formula One being the only sport that the BBC covered in any real detail on television this year, and that this was therefore reflected in a public vote little more [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
Khan do - the comeback kid
It felt as if things had come full circle since September 7th 2008 - at least, they have come round as far as they possibly ever will. That night Amir Khan fought Breidis Prescott, and had his chin exposed in less than a minute of boxing. The performance verged on catastrophic [...]
Khan’s kaleidoscope of possibilities
It’s a fairly simple scenario. You’ve just watched a fighter with whom you’ve worked put in perhaps the greatest night’s work of his life and win yet another belt at yet another weight - around your weight, as it happens. You’re reflecting on the destruction a couple of days afterwards and someone asks you if [...]
The voice of the public: Informed debate on the big issues
Not strictly the most sporting story of the day, but we noticed that Joe Bugner is now on I’m a celebrity… Get me out of here! and the Sun have already lapped up quotes that the former heavyweight boxer will not be taking any nonsense from Jordan (not Eddie), who is also in the jungle.
“If Katie [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend: The best are elsewhere
It was one of those magical weekends of sport when the national football, rugby and cricket teams were all in action. A shame that it inspired us only to look elsewhere to see the finest performers and performances…
12 an over Twenty20
South Africa played England to the tune of 241 runs in 120 balls yesterday in one of [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
David versus Goliath, and this time David won
So Britain has a heavyweight champion. A giant has been slain (figuratively) and a hand has been broken (literally). David Haye talked until the words lost all their meaning, but when he got into the ring on Saturday night he did so with a plan, and it was one [...]
The SWS quote of the day
In the first of our non-daily selection of the best things we’ve heard said by sportsmen and those connected to sport, we bring you the following three offerings:
3. David Haye - “The combination of my hand speed and Valuev’s immense head is going to cause an explosion.”
We’re picturing alkali metals in water type insanity, David:
You might think that [...]
A month is a long time in sport…
You might have noticed that we spend an inordinate amount of time here watching sport. But when you don’t know what’s been going on for a month it’s amazing how much things have moved on. Or is it? Let’s review the evidence:
1. Justine Henin plays tennis again now.
2. Goals can and have been scored off a beach ball.
3. [...]