Guardian: Home runs and home truths in Marcus Trescothick’s benefit bash
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 20:12
Andy Bull: "It's a pub-table conversation brought to life. An animated hypothetical. Would Trescothick's hand-eye co-ordination make him a natural slugger? Could Giles' ability to spin a cricket ball translate into a mean curve? Might Jones make a sharp shortstop? And would the superior athleticism and ball skills of the professionals outweigh the knowledge and understanding of the amateurs? The answer was an emphatic 'no'." Despite the provocative article, this has the most sensible comments section I have ever seen on baseball vs. cricket.
Times: Test players step up to plate but get taken out at whole new ball game
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 20:10
Josh Chetwynd on playing baseball against Marcus Trescothick's team of cricketers: "The cricketers showed the skill sets necessary to succeed at baseball, but the nuances of the sport were elusive. …"
The Sun: He’s h-air Lehmann
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 15:04
The Sun has picked up the story of Jens Lehmann's helicopter flights. That'll be the story that Bildblog reported had been nicked from a local blogger by Bild….
Property Week Forums: Football forums
Sunday, 31 August 2008, 10:58
Eh? Why is a B2B magazine running a football forum? Building a user community around something other than the thing they all have in common is a strange strategy.
BaseballGB: GB National [Baseball] Team versus [Marcus] Trescothick’s Bangers
Saturday, 30 August 2008, 09:44
"[4 October is the] date of the game between the Great Britain National Baseball Team and a squad of top cricketers, which is part of Marcus Trescothick’s benefit year and will take place at the County Ground in Taunton"
The Canadian Press: Major leaguers could play in Olympics come 2016 if baseball makes comeback
Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 12:00
"The International Olympic Committee will vote in October 2009 in Copenhagen about what sports, if any, it will bring back for 2016. These Games were baseball's 12th in the Olympics, but it has only been a medal sport since 1992 in Barcelona."
Gawker: Is Olympic Coverage Worth $412,000?
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 07:20
"The New York Times has 32 reporters covering the Olympics in Beijing. Thirty-two! That's quite an investment from a company in the newspaper industry. … Is this Olympics coverage worth the cost?"
Shane Richmond: Ignoring the Olympics
Saturday, 9 August 2008, 12:40
"If you like the sport, watch the sport. Why be a tennis fan for two weeks of every year? Likewise, why become an athletics fan once every four years?"
Dave Lee: Russia goes to war. Important? Not if you ask the BBC
Friday, 8 August 2008, 15:55
BBC News website, but only the UK edition, seems to be the only major UK news website not leading on Russia-Georgia this afternoon.
Monday, 30 June 2008, 22:56
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"Beijing’s Gehua New Century Hotel, site of the official non-accredited media center for the Beijing Olympics in August, has rescinded its offer to pay journalists as much as 1000 yuan ($145) for positive stories."
Monday, 19 May 2008, 09:00
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"The thing the unites all the ’sports’ that you read in the papers? Two things - they have a schedule: they’re regular, so newspapers can plan themselves around them; and they have spectators. … If a ’sport’ doesn’t have a diary, then it can’t be
Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 08:36
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"Here on the west coast of America, where millions upon millions of dollars have been spent promoting Beckham as the superstar saviour of soccer, the decision to omit him from the England squad was recorded by a single paragraph in USA Today."
Friday, 25 January 2008, 13:26
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because of we really, really needed league tables from every national football league plotted on a Google Map of Europe… BATE Borisov top the table in Belarus!
Sunday, 20 January 2008, 18:02
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… like BBC coverage of the African Cup of Nations on Channel 302.
