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

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

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

So, what do the following have in common? Freddie Mercury, Magnus Magnusson, John Stephen  Akhwari, Winston Churchill, JRR Tolkien, Winnie the Pooh and a hockey umpire?   Freddie Mercury was the

Sir Ken Robinson was not by any stretch of the imagination a sportsman. While one of his brothers  did play soccer professionally in England, he himself contracted polio aged four

It is claimed that over sixty-nine countries around the world now host their own version of the ‘Got  Talent’ format, whereby anyone can enter and perform any form of talent

Many readers will be familiar with the mock obituary that was published in The Times newspaper a  number of years ago, which began, “Today we mourn the passing of a

Have you ever wondered what Snoop Dogg, Rabbie Burns and Rudyard Kipling have in common?  Furthermore, have we ever realised what significance they have with regard to sport? None of

Gordon Ramsay is perhaps the one celebrity most well-known for his use of the F word, though it is  probably a consequence of a quick temper and high expectations of

Louis Armstrong is known to many generations as one of the greatest jazz singers and trumpet  players. His hits included ‘What a Wonderful World’ and ‘When the Saints Go Marching