In the recent First Test between South Africa and Australia played in Durban, the Australian Nic...
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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.
Sports Articles Oct 18, 2026
So, tell us: did we choose our parents wisely? Let us consider it another way: have we ever wished...
Sports Articles Oct 11, 2026
Our former President, Robert Mugabe, is quoted widely as saying that, “Cricket civilizes people...
Sports Articles Oct 4, 2026
The Haka has become a familiar sight in recent times, with the increase in the number of All...
Sports Articles Sep 27, 2026
The words of the Teacher (or Preacher, or Philosopher), found in the book of Ecclesiastes 3,...
Sports Articles Sep 20, 2026
What do we hate? [Note, we ask ‘what’, not ‘who’!] For some of us it may be traffic jams, the...
Sports Articles Sep 13, 2026
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, in a US Open second-round qualifier in 1983,...
Sports Articles, Uncategorized Sep 6, 2026
One of the joys of teaching is seeing interesting spellings of words like “tree cuter” and “making...
Sports Articles Aug 30, 2026
For those of a certain age who follow golf, the names Tom Watson and Turnberry Golf Course will be...
Sports Articles Aug 23, 2026
Eric ‘The Eel’ Moussambani, the Equatoguinean swimmer at the 2000 Sydney Olympics who...
Sports Articles Aug 16, 2026
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics featured various iconic moments, including the home favourite...
Sports Articles Aug 9, 2026
Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, Wyatt Earp, Jesse James were all legends (some lawmen, others...
Sports Articles Aug 2, 2026
We will have to admit it – the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge in China is seriously impressive,...
Sports Articles Jul 26, 2026
In recent weeks, we have heard national anthems blaring out at numerous televised sporting events,...
Sports Articles Jul 19, 2026
Certainly, there is one thing that we all have in common and which we all celebrate even though we...
Sports Articles Jul 12, 2026
Depending on our gender (and the extent of our sense of humour), we may have smiled at, maybe even...
Sports Articles Jul 5, 2026
One thing that is not taught at school, especially to boys, and which perhaps would be most...
Sports Articles Jun 28, 2026
Confession time: how many readers have been beaten in their life? How many were beaten when they...
