It’s a Long Way to Tipperary
By Aiden McLaughlin In the UK & Ireland, two horse racing festivals stand head and shoulders above the rest. Every March, Cheltenham, a town in Gloucestershire, South West England, is home[…]
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The Swinehound of a Sports Quiz
By The Spotter Test your knowledge against the following- the ‘swinehound’ sports quiz. Why swinehound? And it’s fair enough that you ask. It’s derived from German, it was the first thought I had to describe[…]
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The Horse That Stops A Nation
By Aiden McLaughlin When the third Bledisloe Cup test kicks off this Saturday evening, tv viewers across the ditch are likely to have their eyes elsewhere. That’s because at exactly the[…]
Preferred Lies
Golf is a sport with quirky traditions and customs like no other. In Preferred Lies by Charles Happel and Mike Clayton the history of the sport is covered thoroughly. It[…]
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And the time has come, to shoot you down
By Aiden McLaughlin 21st July 2019. When Noeline Taurua became Silver Ferns coach, that would have been the date she would have written down in bold, underlined and committed to memory.[…]
Get out; see the light
By The Spotter Last Sunday morning I did my first running event in ten years. Once upon a time I managed to run marathons. But the last one was so long ago, sportsfreak was still several years[…]
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After the Ryder Cup
By Aiden McLaughlin It was hope rather than expectation at the start. At the end of day two it was expectation rather than hope. About halfway through the Sunday matches there[…]
The Ryder Cup
By Aiden McLaughlin I was 9 years old and already a huge sports addict. I lived in Tooting Broadway, an unremarkable part of South West London, opposite a primary school –[…]
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About Time They Cared For Their Most Vulnerable
By The Spotter ‘And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things’ (Terry Pratchett; Carpe Jugulum). In a really significant article in the latest Weekend Herald, Joel Kulasingham reported on[…]
Álvarez vs. Golovkin
By Aiden McLaughlin If you think about it, it’s actually quite rare for a high profile boxing match to live up to the hype and expectation that precedes it. For[…]
