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Sports thoughts from the weekend
Britain wins a winter gold
Remember when Amy Williams was just like any of us? Well, no, probably not - you probably hadn’t heard a great deal more than that she was also competing in the same event as Shelley Rudman, the skeleton, at the Vancouver Olympics. Sure enough, though, four excellent runs down an icy track [...]
Tiger is back, and maybe he hasn’t changed
Tiger Woods is going to say some carefully chosen words today, and despite the fact that we know he will doing so almost entirely on his own terms and refusing to answer any questions or do anything that isn’t written on his cue cards [note to self - look remorseful], the media is going to [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
Six Nations gets going
The Six Nations delivered excitement and class on Saturday, although unfortunately not always at the same time. The day began with the Scots putting in one of their best performances of recent times, recording a 24-14 victory over the Welsh over the course of 70 minutes. Unfortunately, a combination of horrible injuries and [...]
Piers Morgan doesn’t let facts ruin a belittling
You can rely on Piers Morgan for informed sporting debate. There’s a fairly significant rule change affecting golf at the moment, and Phil Mickelson isn’t best pleased about it. To break it down simply, thanks to Ian Carter at the BBC:
The rule change
For those not familiar, the background, in simple terms, is this: Modern irons have had [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
Haven’t we been here before?
It’s the second week of a Grand Slam tennis tournament, and we have a Briton playing well facing a big quarter-final. Since the mid-nineties, this has been the point at which we begin to hope almost relentlessly for victory, a burden which had been carried by Rusdeski and Henman, and has now [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
Snooker loopy
The people who say that snooker is a dying sport have already closed their minds to it, and their opinions will not be changed. The evidence to the contrary, however, was there for all who want to see it with a magnificent final which saw Mark Selby claim the Masters title at Wembley for the [...]
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 [...]
Another year of speculation
Hope you had a Happy New Year. You’re probably already being about three times more prosperous than last year, and you’ll have been out every morning for a five mile run. What’s that? You haven’t? But it’s the New Year! Everything’s different now.
Even if our prediction is wrong, it won’t really matter, because you’ll have forgotten [...]
The round-up
Some intriguing words today in the papers. We’ll begin with the Sun, who were reporting on the mood of euphoria following Tottenham’s 3-0 home victory over Manchester City last night. Inspired by that performance, Harry Redknapp said this:
“Anything is possible this year.
“The champions will come from Manchester United or Chelsea. But after that [...]
Reading still more into the Tiger affairs
The Tiger Woods news just isn’t going away, and of course he’s important enough to merit opinions beyond the sports pages. But people who don’t know a great deal about Tiger the sportsmen are taking him on as subject matter, and that’s producing some… interesting results. Here’s India Knight in the Sunday Times to show [...]