Sport Archive

Winter Olympics In Danger of Being Rained Out

The Winter Olympics have always intrigued me, primarily because I find the vast majority of events terrifying and because the contestants fall over quite often. Unfortunately this years event looks in a little bit of doubt, because the weather is too warm. In Vancouver. In winter. While it is snowing in London.
Togo players told to fly home despite voting to play on at African finals

Togo’s players were reported in Angola to be ready to fly out and quit the African Nations Cup even though they had earlier appeared about to defy a summons home from their own government after Friday’s terrorist attack on the team bus. Three people died – the driver, a coach and a media officer – in [...]
Gibbs Quits and Tiger’s Stds

Lunch Time Sports Bites Trying some new names out, as putting a “Lunch Time Sports Round Up” every day is quite boring, and it probably won’t look that good on the site. Unless I post other sport stories in between, but that sounds like way to much like hard work. Today we have something on Herschelle Gibbs, [...]
The Lunch Time Sports Round Up

It’s about time some regular features starting appearing on this website, so starting today the Lunch Time Sports Round Up will hopefully become a daily feature. This is of course subject to how much time I have at work, and whether or not my boss is behind me, but I will do my best to [...]
2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification Preview

Tonight is a massively important night for 12 soccer teams around the world, as the last six places available at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa will be claimed. Three years worth of qualification games, media hype, disappointing results, determination and hard work all boil down to these six games. For the six teams [...]
What Would Jacques Do?

Jacques Kallis is one hell of a boring guy. He really doesn't have much to offer besides cricket. Which got me to thinking, what would this guy do if he wasn't so damn good at playing with balls?
Toyota to Withdraw from F1

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced it plans to withdraw from the FIA Formula One World Championship (F1) at the end of the 2009 season. TMC, which had viewed its participation in F1 as contributing to the prosperity of automotive culture, remained dedicated to competing at the pinnacle of motor sports, even in [...]
Why do we listen to commentary?

Sports commentators are infallible. They are at the top of the journalistic profession and are the envy of their peers and… ah never mind, we all know the vast majority of them are total crap and only got their jobs because they are ex-pros, or people who have taken a dose of Verb-Lax and have [...]
Olympic Sports that don’t exist, but should

I’m not a jock. And I don’t purport to be one (I’m quite happy being an anti-jock). But I’ve been thinking and I realised there are certain sports in which I would flourish, and I am hugely disappointed in this entity we call “society” that my true talents cannot be recognised and seen for what [...]
Cristiano and Me

Cristiano Ronaldo, me, and the most expensive property in Britain: Just a few things you can buy with £80 Million.