Category: Sport

In 2000 I wrote an Excel spreadsheet which I called the Euro 2000 Wallchart. I called it this because come every major tournament, everyone I knew would get their poster, or newspaper pullout and chart England’s (and other teams) performance throughout the competition. There was nothing spectacularly original with this idea – I saw one…

According to this press release detailing BBC1’s summer season, the BBC will be streaming the Olympics via broadband as well as on television. They’ve obviously pulled quite a coup off to do this, but I fear that as a Demon customer, I’ll be missing out, since it’s bound to be a very limited service for…

Weeks after the death of Marco Pantani, former Cofidis rider Philippe Gaumont has been talking in Le Monde about how easy it is for riders to get away with drug cheating. This really is a big issue in sport at the moment, and it’s worrying how relaxed many of our authorities still are about it.…

This is pretty shocking news for any lovers of cycling.

Nuff said.

Congratulations to David Millar for becoming Men’s Time Trial World Champion tonight, winning in Canada. Since it only happened ten minutes ago, I can’t find any online reports yet (not that it’d be a problem with football). Wait a moment – here’s one. He absolutely crucified the rest of the field taking three minutes out…

It’s been a shocking few weeks in football. There’s been the rape case which is ongoing, a second alleged sexual offense involving another player, Man Utd about to change hands, and goodness knows what else. The smallest suggestion that England players were not going to Portugal is simply the most outrageous thing I’ve heard all…

So BSkyB now has all the football rights that are going! They’ve now got delayed rights to all the premiership matches on a Saturday, being able to replay one match in full at 8.30pm and the rest either as 45 minute highlight packages or in full. I’d guess that Sky will put one on at…

Mediaguardian reports that Mario Monti is not happy with BSkyB’s premiership football deal. It’s not really surprising, particularly given their almost certain imminent win of the last remaining rights to show replays of all the games on a delayed basis. This could shake the system up quite considerably.

Well as expected the FA have got the match report from yesterday’s little friendly, and are “urgently” considering it and video tapes. As usual, the FA’s website goes into overdrive; they just love a juicy story like this. “Stay logged on to TheFA.com for all the latest news on this story” they report! The problem…

Well it didn’t exactly go stormingly well tonight did it?

Well Mediaguardian has caught on to Sky’s usual domineering fun and games with this year’s UEFA Champions’ League. The format of the competition means that half the teams play on a Tuesday and half on a Wednesday. The following week, the all the play on the other night. So last night Man Utd, Chelsea and…