by admin | Jul 11, 2024 | Sports Articles
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 if the records would be a hit or a miss. In many...
by admin | Jul 11, 2024 | Sports Articles
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 juniors tennis to competing against and then defeating many top senior...
by admin | Jul 11, 2024 | Sports Articles
“Life without sports is like life without underpants” – so said the wonderfully eccentric New Zealand cricket umpire, Billy Bowden, who by his signals tried to bring some levity and laughter to the very proper world of cricket. His view of sports,...
by admin | Jul 10, 2024 | Sports Articles
In the powerful Oscar-winning film ‘Chariots of Fire’, which followed the great rivalry between the two great sprinters of the early 1920s, Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, Harold Abrahams suffered a humiliating defeat to Liddell and reflected deeply...
by admin | Jul 10, 2024 | Sports Articles
Some time ago five schools competed in an Inter-Schools athletics meeting in a neighbouring country. One of the schools arrived after the scheduled starting time; they stepped off the bus in their civilian clothes without any school team kit; in half of...
