Blog
Our Executive Director, Tim Middleton has been writing articles on Education and School Sport each week in the Standard for the past 10 years. These 4-minute reads cover timely topics that may be of interest to the ATS Community and the Education body as a whole.
There is the old joke that an Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman were stranded on a desert...
Football fans love to air their voices loudly during matches and many clubs have their own...
In a previous article we considered whether a player is good at a sport because he enjoys it or if...
In 1967, Aretha Franklin was transformed from a domestic star into an international one through...
Over the years there have been some extraordinary as well as trademark celebrations of...
There is an old saying that the first sign of madness is having hairs on the palms of your hands...
What do Ashleigh Barty and Alyssa Healy have in common? Well, they are both ladies – true!...
A few years ago, a senior representative of a pensions company in South Africa made an...
Mark Twain is known for many things, principally as the creator of the fictional stories about...
In the middle of the last century the cartoon antics of ‘Tom and Jerry’ (the cat and mouse duo)...
We have all read them, all those sayings about winning and losing. Vince Lombardi famously (or...
For years, mainly courtesy of the Stella Awards, there has been circulating a popular story of a...
The ‘10,000 Hour Rule’, popularised by Malcom Gladwell, has been discussed at length in many ...
William Congreve probably never imagined the interest he would initiate when he wrote in his...
Alun Wyn Jones is a legend in the world of rugby. He is the world’s most-capped player in that...
Many people have commented on the difference between cats and dogs. One saying goes, “Dogs ...
‘Fawlty Towers’ was a hugely successful sitcom programme in the UK in the 1970s centred on...
There have been many occasions when individuals and teams have snatched victory from the jaws...
