It is interesting that in the word ‘perseverance’ are the words ‘severe’ and ‘race’. As perseverance is  a long word, a long-distance word, this serves as a good reminder that

Increasingly we read in newspapers of international sportsmen and women announcing their  ‘retirement’ from international sport, usually with the explanation that it is done (“very regrettably”  they add) in order

True story! Two boys were great friends at the same Primary School; both showed great potential in  sport, one in rugby and the other in hockey. The key question for

The sporting world was very different forty years ago; in those days, many international sportsmen  and women in different sports were part-timers and were unpaid – in fact, they had

It is an interesting exercise to see how point-scoring in rugby has changed over the years. In the very  early years, a team did not score any points for recording

Someone once said that at “40C degrees, Californians shiver uncontrollably but people in Scotland  sunbathe. At 20C degrees, people in Florida wear coats and wool hats while people in Scotland

At the inaugural celebration of the Laureus World Sports Awards in 1999, Nelson Mandela stated  that, “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire.

“There’s a breathless hush in the Close to-night, Ten to make and the match to win, A bumping pitch  and a blinding light, An hour to play, and the last

At an Inter-Schools athletics event, the Heads of some of the schools were sitting in the shelter of a  marquee and were joined, uninvited, by a group of enthusiastic parents

There is an old adage that says that “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well.” There is much  wisdom in that, not least with regard to