Category: Sports

The Over 50s Running Revolution in Asia by Murray Hunter & Maggie Kim Hong 2014-11-01

October 21, 2021

The running revolution came to the ‘Western World’ during the 1980s when the great mass marathons like London, New York, Boston, Chicago, Melbourne, and the like, exponentially increased in participant numbers during that decade. Many had in excess of Ten Thousand participants, which have grown to over Forty Thousand in some cases today. However according … More The Over 50s Running Revolution in Asia by Murray Hunter & Maggie Kim Hong 2014-11-01

Let’s talk football by Thanos Kalamidas 2014-10-18

October 21, 2021

Football – soccer for the Americans – is the most popular sport in the world with an unbelievable number of side aspects. To name the biggest one, money. There are football teams this minute that the cost of their players could cover the foreign debt of a few African countries and perhaps feed the poor … More Let’s talk football by Thanos Kalamidas 2014-10-18

Getting Yourself Ready for the Marathon by Murray Hunter 2014-02-16

October 13, 2021

The marathon is the challenge that many people 30s upwards are taking up with great seriousness and discipline. The marathon is one of the last frontiers of personal challenge we can give ourselves. It’s not about becoming a world champion, or winning a race. Rather it’s about pursuing an aspiration we have within ourselves to … More Getting Yourself Ready for the Marathon by Murray Hunter 2014-02-16

Platini and the Race Card by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2012-06-11

September 20, 2021

Michel Platini, the UEFA President ever lurking in the shadows of global football, was seeking to pull his weight just prior to the opening fixture of Euro 2012, which is now underway in Poland and the Ukraine.  The way he is doing so, notably on race, has produced a split.The thorny subject of racial abuse … More Platini and the Race Card by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2012-06-11

In the Roman arena between sports and doping by Thanos Kalamidas 2012-04-17

September 18, 2021

The summer that is coming is an all sports summer with the London Olympics to hold the top sport event of the year and the European nation’s championship to follow. But the sports summer is coming after a very dark winter where the event that won all the sports was heart attacks with a 25 … More In the Roman arena between sports and doping by Thanos Kalamidas 2012-04-17

World Cup and the spoiled brat by Thanos Kalamidas 2010-12-07

July 19, 2021

So after decades of political and financial games we all came to the conclusion that there is a lot of dirt in the sports world. I have often said that the spirit of the Olympic Games is buried somewhere under television rights and doping and football is far more dirty case since it includes professional … More World Cup and the spoiled brat by Thanos Kalamidas 2010-12-07

Bernie Ecclestone and Formula One by Dr. Gerry Coulter 2010-10-27

July 17, 2021

Bernie Ecclestone, who turns 80 this week, sits atop Formula One racing – one of the few remaining spectacles in the world where drivers with amazing reflexes and an incredible instinct for speed pilot land-based vehicles which run on jet fuel at incredible speeds. A former motor-bike racer of some skill, failed race car driver, … More Bernie Ecclestone and Formula One by Dr. Gerry Coulter 2010-10-27

The Spanish South African one-eye by Thanos Kalamidas 2010-07-13

July 15, 2021

Tears from both sides and Spain is the new holder of the world cup. Holland for the third time returns home with tears while Carlos, the king of Spain prepares shines his uniform to welcome the heroes. In the meantime South Africa ignoring the financial truth is getting ready for another challenge, after the world … More The Spanish South African one-eye by Thanos Kalamidas 2010-07-13