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The US Open may not be remembered for Dustin Johnson’s first major but for some officiously unhelpful refereeing by the US PGA. The incident in question arose over a putt. Johnson took two practice strokes and as he shaped to take the actual stroke the ball moved. He summoned the referee who [...]

June 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Back to the future

Yesterday was a long one, involving as it did setting off from the south coast at 7.30am to take my aged father to a lunch in central London and then back again. Never mind the driving or the meal, it was the double dose of rush-hour (morning and afternoon) that was the biggest ordeal. Upon [...]

June 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hove Dogs

It  was good to see Bob Tickler back. We met up at Hove to watch his dog. He ran in the first race and it was felt the shorter distance might suit him after a lay off for injury. It did not and he never featured. Bob ruefully observed that he “bought a pup” but he is not yet two and [...]

June 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

There – I did it!

Little in this life is more calculated to forcibly remind a human being of the swiftness at which time slips away than sitting down, fondly recalling something memorable from one’s past and simply working out just how long ago it occurred. In days of yore (at the dawn of the professional era in [...]

June 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Back in the old routine

Early yesterday evening I went up to the gym to blow a few cobwebs away by doing what at my age I would call a session (but maybe those under the age of forty might not because it consists of me doing only whatever exercising I can until immediately I feel either body or spirit becoming unwilling). [...]

June 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Same old, same old

For some reason I thought  of the European Championships in Italy  in 1980: riots in the park and England going out fecklessly. After a few tournaments which went benignly in terms of violence since 1998, when there was again trouble in Marseilles, I saw the same dismal scenes of cafes trashed, [...]

June 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Is seeing really believing?

As regular readers will be aware, the Rust always keeps one eager eye open for media developments or comments on the subject of performance-enhancing drugs and cheating generally in the world of sport. Here’s an article by Catherine Bennett that appears on the website today of – THE [...]

June 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Buddy road chat

Twice this week I have been a passenger on long car journeys largely spent in conversation with a friend who was the  driver. There is  something about a such a journey that is conducive to a deeper conversation. In both cases the journeys were blighted by traffic jams that put at least another [...]

June 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Drug notes

More on sports and performance-enhancing drugs – a topic that prompts Rust interest from time to time. Firstly, we have received the news that tennis star Maria Sharapova has been given a two-year ban for use of a banned substance – see here –  Owen Gibson writing on the website of – THE [...]

June 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Meanwhile, at the back …

With Euro 2016 beginning at the end of the week, here’s a piece on the issues arising from Roy Hodgson’s defensive selections written by Amy Lawrence that appears today on the website of The Guardian and deserves as wide an audience as possible  – see here – THE [...]

June 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

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