U-S-uh, how does it go again?
Watching the highlights of the Olympics women’s football final this evening (a fitting end to the great Mia Hamm’s career) it struck me that one of the reasons a lot of people find the US’ sporting succ[…]

Not sure how this’ll translate, but I’m going to root for two NBA teams this year. I realize that this means that I will be being disloyal to the Portland Trail Blazers, the team I’ve followed my entire life, but they deserve it. I&[…]

Enough of this velodrome nonsense, check out some proper cycling.[…]

Womens Pole Vault Final
It had everything; intense competition between two Russians who can’t stand each other, a world record and a contestant knocking off the bar with her boob. It’s a strange looking, unnatural event and I think a clea[…]

Olympic Avoidance LogI did remarkably well at the weekend, only managing to see bits and bobs via the news. Apparently winning a couple of medals because other people were disqualified is more important than any other world event. Not watching any ev[…]

Hi, how are you. Let’s get right down to it: I am American by birth and citizenship, I have never left North America, I have played baseball while eating a hot dog, I stopped playing (our)soccer to play (our) football in 8th grade mostly so I c[…]

Nine Unarguable Reasons why Synchronised Swimming is the Only True Olympic Sport
(as told to mark s by his top pal dr risk*) (and glossed a bit but NOT MUCH!!)
1. Dr Risk – who is three-quarters sea otter btw – wz captain of her college[…]

Trouble in the Lowe country
The season is nine days old and already we have the first managerial casualty as Paul Sturrock leaves Southampton by mutual consent.
His crime appears to have been losing the first game of the season and not being Glenn Ho[…]

Football Against the Enemy
It’s ten years since Simon Kuper’s book was first published. Football books often probed no further than player’s memoirs or tournament histories (Fever Pitch excepted). Football Against the Enemy created […]

My Apologies In Advance To The People’s Republic Of China
Amusing though it all is, I’m not a big one for call-that-a-sport!! responses to the Olympics. This is probably a legacy of my not thinking any sport was worthwhile until relativel[…]