By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 August 2012 There were 23 openly gay athletes across all sports at the London 2012 Olympic Games according to observers who monitor such trends closely, notably Outsports.com. Ten of them won medals (43 per cent) and seven of them won gold medals (30.4 per […]
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Premier League diversity at heart of global appeal
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 20 August 2012 . The 2012-13 Premier League kicked off at the weekend and this is what it looked like: Each flag on the graphic represents one player involved in one of the nine Premier League games played on Saturday and Sunday, from Arsenal’s Polish […]
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‘In 1999, I met a 16-year-old kid called Mo who said it would mean a great deal to run for Britain. Dreams do come true.’
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 August 2012 In 1999, I met a 16-year-old kid called Mo who said it would mean a great deal to run for Britain. He was one of 110 promising British youngsters at an ‘Olympic futures’ training camp in Florida. I was reporting on it […]
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London 2012: Beware billions bollocks. Ceremony to be huge TV hit, but not that huge
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 July 2012 Over the next day or so it is almost certain that you will see or hear somebody claim that the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics will be watched by a global audience of billions. That’s bollocks. It won’t be. Even […]
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Golden balls-up: the folly of binning Beckham for the Olympics
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 July 2012 BRITAIN cares so much about the GB Olympic football team that after London 2012 it will be disbanded and will never play again. There has been no GB involvement in Olympic football since Britain failed to qualify for the 1972 Games in […]
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Manchester United: 659 million people can’t be wrong. Can they?
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 7 June 2012 WHEN Manchester United announced last week that they had 659 million followers and are thus “the most popular club in the most popular sport in the world”, the figures were met with widespread scepticism, even derision. But I can only speak for […]
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It’s the economy, stupid! How money fuels glory in the Premier League
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 May 2012 Money has helped to fuel success as long as the English football league has existed – so that’s about 124 years. So while saying that Manchester City bought the 2011-12 Premier League title is true (they would not have done it without […]
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In memory of Khalil Dale: my gentle, compassionate, tolerant friend. RIP.
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 29 April 2012 I have been trying for much of the day, and failing, to write a proper tribute to Khalil Dale, my friend of 23 years, murdered in Pakistan. We were at university together, shared a flat, played football (I persuaded him just the […]
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Thirty years on from the Falklands: Sport, war and playing in the Cup for Tott-ing-ham
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 April 2012 Today marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the Falklands War. As Sportingintelligence contributor Matthew Barrett, a specialist on the subject of sport and war, details on his own blog today, tensions between Britain and Argentina continue to simmer, with sporting repercussions. […]
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Sportsmen of the Titanic: tales of loss, love and a 21st century bust-up over long-dead players’ image rights
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 25 March 2012 THERE were five sportsmen on board the Titanic when it sank on 15 April 1912, although their stories are unlikely to be given much if any attention during the eponymous ITV drama series which starts this weekend and will air in 80 […]
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