By Nick Harris 11 May 2015 Sporting Intelligence is pleased to announce a new partnership with sports compression wear company SKINS that will help to maintain this website’s independence – and help to enable the provision of some project funding for young and upcoming sports writers. The new alliance comes on the heels of www.sportingintelligence.com […]

. “Our vision is to continue to play a leadership role in charting a better future for this great sport of ours and changing the culture that so damaged it. That means continued leadership on anti-doping.”  Sir Dave Brailsford, 2014  . By Teddy Cutler                       […]

By Roger Pielke Jr 12 March 2015 Sport, it is often said, is a mirror to society. That is no more true than in the revelations found in the report of the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (downloadable as a PDF on this website), which earlier this week released its report on doping in professional cycling. […]

. When Lance Armstrong was banned for life in August 2012 for doping to win his seven Tours de France between 1999 and 2005, most casual observers would have assumed cycling’s well-documented doping problems were, if not solved, then at least cleared up somewhat. But that sordid story did not start with Armstrong nor did it […]

By Brian Sears 24 December 2015 Christmas is a time for reflection and a time to look forward and neither offers any merriment for Aston Villa. Ten points away from safety as things stand, they can look to no precedent in the Premier League era (the ‘monied’ era, since 1992) for a club with single-digit points at Christmas […]