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Sports thoughts from the Bank Holiday weekend
Snooker
So we have a World Champion, and he’s Australian. Neil Robertson was brilliant up until the final, but then again so was Graeme Dott. The contest, last more than half a day of solid table time, showed the fragile line between brilliance and mediocrity. These two players had been exceptional on their routes to the [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
Steve Davis does… something he’s done before
Beating world number 1 and defending champion John Higgins over 25 frames was probably some achievement, but once again, we weren’t quite sure how to explain it. Enter the Daily Mail:
Steve Davis, at the age of 52, knocking out world champion and new world No 1 John Higgins. It really does [...]
Cliche watch: How did 52 year-old Davis win his snooker match?
We couldn’t possibly comment - but then we don’t need to. We have these reports of last night’s 10-9 victory over Mark King to help us understand just how Steve Davis triumphed:
BBC Sport: Steve Davis rolled back the years to beat Mark King 10-9 in a first round match lasting more than seven-and-a-half hours at the [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend - volcano edition
Jenson Button
The man who was giving up a title-winning car and joining a team where he might be considered the second driver is currently leading the Formula One World Championship. Sure, rain has helped, but it should not be forgotten that Hamilton, Button’s team mate, was supposed to be the master of the wet race. Whatever [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Non-story alert: Mark Allen, the colourblind snooker player
The BBC look for a quirky story most days which tends to appear on the right hand column next to the transfer gossip, and today’s offering is a fine example of a story which on the surface may sound rather exciting but in the end struggles to be even mildly curious.
Allen plays down colour blindness
A snooker player [...]
YouTube - a magnificent seven… snooker moments
There is so much to see on YouTube that it tempts you to give up full-time work and enslave yourself to seeing every last video (barring those ones of babies and kittens doing cute things). But where to begin? Sport without Spin will guide you with a digest of some of our favourite clips.
This week our [...]