The Greatest Sho(hei) On Earth
By Scott MacLean In the Land of the Free, the Major League Baseball season has passed it’s halfway point and is about to enter the leadup to the trading deadline[…]
Category: Baseball
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The Tokyo Diaries Preview – Part 1 of 6
By Keith Miller The countdown is on. The Olympic Games that almost didn’t happen may be a year later than expected, but the Greatest Show on Earth is set to[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 13 June
The Euros have started strongly. The French Open, and Maria Sakkari serving. Yes that’s Rafa, and once again cast a shadow over the French Open. Max Verstappen doing an outstanding[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :- 17 April
Take that racism. Arsenal players taking a knee in Prague before going on to thrash their opponents. The 2021 Masters. Hideki Matsuyama’s caddie Shota Hayafuji removing his hat and bowing[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 28 March
This is one really confusing photo. It’s not just the Ranfurly Shield where players sleep alongside trophies. A mural has popped up in Manchester showing Marcus Rashford kicking down the[…]
Breaking that glass ceiling
By Scott MacLean Professional sport in the US has existed since not long after the Civil War, with baseball’s National League – one half of the Major Leagues – the[…]
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Dodging It
By Scott MacLean 2020 might be many things, and few of them good, but there was a baseball season and with it a champion as the Los Angeles Dodgers this[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :- 25 October
La Vuelta gets underway in Spain. The Slovenia giro is pretty good too. Winx was the greatest horse of the 21st century, so it was appropriate she was honoured with[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 1 August
COVID Corner; again. The Chicago cubs doing the CGI thing, including good attention to detail with the manspreading. But what the hell is going on here? This, at the Washington[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :- 12 July
What’s going on here? Southland hardman Corey Flynn turns up for his commentary stint at Scaffolding Stadium with … an electric blanket. The Inspiration Games has been a behind closed[…]
