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.
SOME say that a goldfish has a memory of three seconds. We are told that we must drink eight...
There are good sports commentators and there are bad sports commentators. By “bad”, we mean ...
“I swear you will never see anything like this again!” Those words, spoken with deep passion...
Everyone loves to talk about and see the Big Five of elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo and...
Cecil the lion became an international celebrity in 2015, bringing the world’s attention firmly...
Who would be a sports coach? Who would wish to be a sportsman? Who indeed would be a sports ...
Oscar Wilde is often attributed with the statement that “Rugby is a good occasion for keeping...
Bob Knight is one of the US college basketball’s most successful coaches – he has, after all,...
In March 1966 the British rock band The Who recorded a single entitled, ‘Substitute’, reaching...
When it comes to naming the top international soccer players, the name of Chris Birchall is not...
Golf and tennis are very much individual sports. It is each man or woman for himself or...
At first glance, it may not be obvious how Shakespeare and ‘Star Wars’ are connected, nor...
The ten Most Extreme Sports are listed on one website as being Ice Climbing, Volcano...
We have always argued that sport is meant to be fun. If we are not enjoying the experience,...
We have all seen it – the super-enthusiastic young boys on the pitch playing their hearts out in...
Not being selected for the team that we have longed to play for (or indeed which we have longed...
“Jarvo 69” this week hit the headlines when he strode out onto the famous Lord’s cricket ground...
Barack Obama rose to the position of President of the United States of America on the back of...
