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Way to go, Rory!

With the Rio Olympics opening ceremony now only a few weeks away, it would seem that the IOC – and some of the governing bodies of sports admitted to the ‘family’ – could do with more adverse advance publicity like a hole in the head. The IOC is a bit like FIFA is to football and maybe [...]

July 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

A delightful day of tv sport

I took my missus to IKEA early doors to clear the day for The  Murray /Raonic final, The Scottish  Open at Castle Stuart and the Euro final. I don’t follow tennis. For me there  is not enough variety.   In golf every shot is different , every course has its own challenges whereas in [...]

July 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Standing up to be counted

Yesterday afternoon I watched on television as Serena Williams, who is going to be 35 in September, lost 5-7, 4-6 to first-time Major winner Garbine Muguruza (formerly of Venezuela, now of Spain) in the final of the women’s singles at the French Open. Serena therefore remains on a career record [...]

June 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

It depends how you define equality

From our growing ‘stuck record’ department, I fear. On the subjects of tennis, equal pay, political correctness and similar, here comes another report upon research suggesting that elite female tennis players are some of the luckiest sports-people alive in terms of ‘value for [...]

April 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

(All together now): How do you solve a problem like Maria?

This organ’s stance of the use of performing-enhancing drugs in sports is a matter of long-standing record and after Abbie Boraston-Green’s piece yesterday on Maria Sharapova’s failed drugs test at the Australian Open we do not propose to follow the story’s developments on a blow-by-blow [...]

March 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Shocking the world

Being occupied with other things, it was only as I retired to bed last night and turned on the radio that I first heard the news that Maria Sharapova had tested positive for the banned substance meldonium at the Australian Open in January. At a Los Angeles press conference which she had called [...]

March 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Losing it never gets any easier

There once was a time when, as for any sports-loving young man, school lessons for me were just an unnatural interruption between excursions to the games field. Any games field. I’m not saying I was any good at sport, but I was proficient enough to feel that my destiny was surely to be found on [...]

August 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

A revelation on the road to Wimbledon

Today just an observation. Writing as someone who is about as unsporty as it is possible to be, at some point during the Men’s Singles Final at Wimbledon yesterday I decided that, as a sport played by individuals – well, I must immediately qualify that by adding that, even when played in its [...]

July 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Some things always remain

Yesterday my daughter and boyfriend travelled to the coast in order to join me for lunch. They live sufficiently far away that I don’t go to visit them that often, but then that’s a product of my old age. I regard spending a total of seven hours in a car for a four-hour visit somewhere as a [...]

July 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sports and broadcasting (again)

Today I wish to return briefly to an issue that continues to rumbles on this august website, that of whether – these days, and especially when one is beyond the first flush of youth – it is better to go to the trouble of actually attending sporting events or (alternatively) at some [...]

July 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

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