* ALEXANDRA WILLIS is a multimedia tennis journalist who flits between Wimbledon, SportingIntelligence, the TennisSpace and a few other outlets, while tweeting copiously and trying to improve her (terrible) backhand in her spare time.    “If I were to go to a tennis tournament, it would be Indian Wells. No question.” That statement was not uttered by an […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 May 2012 As Blackburn’s manager Steve Kean prepares to leave for India on Tuesday evening for talks with the club’s owners on Wednesday, a critical difference of opinion over his fate persists; on one side are senior club officials at Ewood Park and at […]

By Alexandra Willis in Indian Wells 20 March 2011 Novak Djokovic out-fought the game’s prize fighter to win the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, coming from behind to defeat Rafael Nadal 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 and extend his figures for the 2011 season to 21-0. Despite coming out of the blocks marginally slower than his […]

By Alexandra Willis 7 October 2010 India is leading the charge at the inaugural tennis event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi after Sania Mirza and Somdev Devvarman both progressed to the semi-finals of the women’s and men’s singles respectively. National pin-up Mirza, the world No.137, appeared to relish the home support at the […]

. Norwegian sports writer Andreas Selliaas grew up in a village south of Oslo in the 1970s, watching English football from afar and playing make believe in the street. His friends would quarrel over who would be Kevin Keegan and who would be Kenny Dalglish. Selliaas wanted to be neither. He wanted to be Bob […]

Part of Sportingintelligence’s guide to the 2016 FIFA presidential election: HOME PAGE here . Analysis and debate Between now and the FIFA presidential election, this section will be a platform for analysis and debate from a variety of contributors. The latest article will sit at the top. Contributions welcome; for details see the main page. […]

By Roger Pielke Jr 20 October 2014  Since 1928 international athletics has included separate categories for men and women. This separation makes sense to most people on a lot of levels. In terms of social equity, it is appropriate that women have the same chance as men to compete at the highest levels of athletic […]

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By Nick Harris 9 September 2013 THE Premier League will earn $1.47 billion (£941m) from broadcasters in Asia alone for live rights to matches between now and 2016, Sportingintelligence can reveal, with the figure underlining the importance of that continent to English football’s elite. The biggest clubs are increasingly turning to the Far East markets […]

. The days when the world heavyweight title was routinely feted as the ‘richest prize in sport’ may be long gone, drifted east in its increasingly fragmented forms before coagulating as the sole preserve of a pair of precipitous Ukrainian brothers who swat all-comers with nonchalant ease. But the chance to fight for the same […]