Day: July 11, 2024

Sports Articles

DISCIPLINED OR DISQUALIFIED 

‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ was a farcical comedy written in the last years of the nineteenth  century by Oscar Wilde, in which “the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape

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HOW GOOD ARE WE ON OUR BAD DAYS?  

As a twenty-year old, Tom Lewis shot to prominence in the 2011 British Open golf championship  when as an amateur he shared the lead after the first round (scoring the

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NO BOOKINGS NECESSARY  

There is one award in team sport that not many people can claim. Gary Lineker, the former England  international striker (now a sports commentator and television personality) is one famous

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WHO IS THE BEST COACH? 

A number of years ago a security company posted a massive advertisement that simply stated, “Best  Security Company” with the year and their logo. That was all that was stated.

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WINNING BY SMILES  

Schools are always very concerned about how successful they are in sports; coaches even more so;  countries especially so. Schools market the school by results (while all the time trying

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THE FURNACE OF FAILURE  

A sports commentator was notorious for what became his catchphrase; whenever a team scored  against his national team he cried out, “Disaster for Scotland!” Now, ‘disaster’ is defined as “a 

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WARNING: SUCCESS CAN DAMAGE YOUR LIFE

Most people who follow sport of any kind have heard of Lance Armstrong; the question is, though,  for what do we remember him? Many will hail him as an astonishingly

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SUCCESS AND FAILURE  

Two stirring articles chronicling two very different characters involved in two contrasting sports,  both at the highest level, appeared on the BBC Sport website on 20 July 2020 and considered

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MAKE THEM HIT NOT MISS

There was once a popular Saturday night television programme called ‘Juke Box Jury’ during which a  panel of celebrities (not all of them musically-minded) listened to newly-released records and  determined

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PRESSURE IS A PRIVILEGE

In an interview recently on the BBC sport website, the exciting 16-year old American tennis player,  Coco Gauff opened up about her amazing sporting journey this past year, from playing