DAVID BECKHAM: THE VICTIM OF ANOTHER FOLLY
Being famous has a lot of advantages. You get a lot of free stuff. You make good money. In addition to an above average salary, the modeling stuff on the side provides additional income too.
Of course it has its disadvantages as well. Obsessive fans, hardly to no privacy, never get to go anywhere without a [...]
BEING A REF IS A TOUGH JOB!
Being a referee can be a tough job sometimes. You can be called names by both parties’ fans. One ‘wrong’ decision and you can be sure to have angry fans call you up and threaten you and your family.
Sometimes the job of the referee is tough because the game is so far away from them [...]
TE-VEZ, OR NOT TE-VEZ
By Leigh Sanders
This week sees the red and blue halves of Manchester duel once more in their semifinal second leg Carling Cup encounter.
All the talk over the past few days has been about Manchester City’s in-form Argentine hit man Carlos Tevez.
Having spent two fruitful seasons on loan at rivals United, Tevez’s reading of the fact [...]
BOBSLED RUNNER GILLIAN COOKE REVEALS BACKDOOR
Whoever said that bobsled isn’t sexy enough was wrong. In fact, everything about bobsled is hot & sexy. I never saw any female bobsled runner who wasn’t sexy or unrevealing. Yah them suits are so tight that you can actually view anything and everything. I love watching bobsled and I hope to see many women [...]
AN OLYMPIC ATHLETE….WITH AN ASTERISK
For the first time ever, the U.S. Olympic Volleyball Team a berth in the Olympic Games. The year was 1980 and Debbie Landreth, now Debbie Landreth Brown, and her teammates were more than excited to be a trailblazing team in women’s sports and American volleyball. However, the dreams of her and her teammates of Olympic [...]
TENNIS, LIKE OTHER SPORTS, LOOKS TO CONTINUE A CASH COW
By Leigh Sanders
“Money makes the world go around,” or so the old saying tells us.
As 2010 opens across a planet stuck in recession as Third World debt is joined by those supposedly developed countries whose industries compete to see who can lose the most money in a day.
Standing outside the normal boundaries of daily life [...]
KYLE SWEENEY, “WEEKEND WARRIOR” LACROSSE STAR IN ACTION AS NLL SEASON STARTS
The 2010 season of the National Lacrosse League, the professional indoor lacrosse league, kicks off Friday as the Philadelphia Wings, one of the most successful storied teams in the 24-year-old league, takes on the Orlando Titans, playing in it’s Florida home after three seasons in New York City.
One of the most notable players of the [...]
Football’s Silly Season
Hello there!
My name is Leigh Sanders and I’m a Welshman with a passion for football as large as my increasing beer belly. I have followed the (mis)fortunes of my local side Cardiff City FC for as long as I can remember and take a keen interest in all levels of the sport.
This blog will look [...]
30 Years After 1980 US Olympic Boycott - The Wounds Are Still Healing
NEW YORK - It’s been nearly thirty years after the 1980 U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games, but the wounds of some of the American athletes who lost their one and only chance to compete in the Olympics still have not healed.
“After 30 years, it is not surprising that a lot of the athletes [...]
