IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

TOM Hanks, Madonna and Geena Davisa among others starred in the 1992 film entitled ‘In a League of their Own’, which has also recently been made into a popular television series. It captures the introduction of women’s league baseball during the Second World War when...
VANITY VANITY

VANITY VANITY

WHAT has the novelist Jane Austen to do with sport? Not a lot, would be our natural initial response. After all, the world in which her characters appeared would be far removed from today’s sporting world, while not many sports played today featured back in the 1800s...
THE BLIND SIDE OF PRIDE

THE BLIND SIDE OF PRIDE

THERE is a remarkable lady living in our midst who despite being blind from birth leads an astonishing life. In childhood, she played with her brothers, climbing trees and running around.  She went to a normal school and participated in sport, including karate...
THE POWER OF PRIDE

THE POWER OF PRIDE

WE have referred in previous articles to the film ‘Cool Runnings’ which told the story of the Jamaican athletes who could not participate in the summer Olympics in the sprint events so chose to enter the winter Olympics in bobsledding, despite never having done it...