Surf entrepreneurs take note: I can’t get too worked up over a degree in surfing being available – hey, if you want one it’s your student loan repayments – but the reasons for offering one seem disingenuous. Surf graduates wil[…]

“These people need to get out more for the sake of their health and sanity”
(No, this isn’t D&D-related.)[…]

bcz the Julia Lennon Theory also applies to sport
(= there is no such thing as “backstage”)
(=not the same thing yet as “commentators now know how to integrate this bedroom dimension into their analysis”)[…]

I was 9 when I first heard of Dungeons And Dragons. I was 22 when I played my last role-playing game. When I think about or talk about being a teenager I tend to put the heaviest stress on music and how important it was to me. Then books and comics, […]

Brazil win Copa America
A strange final, full of fluctuating tempos. Perhaps tiredness caught up with the players, but at times it resembled training, Argentina keeping possession and Brazil just keeping their eye on them.
The final few minutes were […]

Poker bids to become Olympic sport. Despite not actually being a sport. The article mentions that they want to get recognition like chess or bridge, neither of which are Olympic sports. Because they are not sports.
I don’t want to drift into s[…]

I have zero interest in cricket as a rule. But this Robert Key bloke has captured my attention a little while I procrastinate over editing a particularly fatuous press release. I have to applaud when someone who is frankly a bit tubby excels in sport[…]

You know those things? Toys, right, and you have a horse on a pedestal or sometimes a man, and you can push the bottom of the pedestal and it relaxes the wires in the horses legs? And so the horse can dance about? And if you push it right in the hors[…]

Chelsea
Of all the stupid money being thrown around by Chelsea, the two Argentines are the ones I really can’t get to grips with. Now, neither Crespo or Veron took the Premiership by storm. At a cost of over ’30m, that’s a big waste[…]

Chuck Klosterman vs The Olympics: I’m guessing the coverage of the Olympics in America is very different to its coverage here. In Britain, where the only thing medal hopes usually end up beating is medal experiences, the very joy of the Olympic[…]