by admin | Jul 30, 2024 | Sports Articles
The 1993 film, ‘Cool Runnings’, may not have won any awards but it did win many people’s hearts as it told (not entirely accurately) the seemingly bizarre story of the Jamaican bobsleigh team that entered the 1988 Winter Olympics; they did not win any...
by admin | Jul 30, 2024 | Sports Articles
Mention the phrase ‘hair-dryer treatment’ and most sports followers will think immediately of one name – Sir Alex Ferguson, the widely-acclaimed and highly-successful manager of Manchester United for twenty-seven years. Alongside the phrase...
by admin | Jul 30, 2024 | Sports Articles
Ryan Cotty was capped forty-eight times for the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team as a centre and would no doubt have played many more times had he not played at the same time as a formidable selection of centres, including Sonny Bill Williams, Ma’a...
by admin | Jul 30, 2024 | Sports Articles
In addition to the optimist and pessimist giving their views as to whether the figurative glass is half full or half-empty, we may have come across other perspectives, such as that the scientist says the glass is completely full (of air and water), the engineer...
by admin | Jul 30, 2024 | Sports Articles
There was a tradition at a Hall of Residence of a historic university overseas that at dinners, if a student wished to have seconds of any one of the three courses, he would hold his plate high in the air and assistance would be forthcoming. The challenge...
