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Beyond Cow Corner: BCC Redux: Marginal Olympics
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Because why should those who actually play sport have all the fun of talking about it? BCC Redux: Marginal Olympics. So, 'Beyond Cow Corner' is back, in time for the Olympics. But every man, woman, and canine will be writing about sport over the next few weeks - how was I going to be different? First up, I go for the important issues: who should be carrying the Olympic torch? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Gender Trouble; or, Why Some Areas of Internationa.
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Beyond Cow Corner: Girls and Boys
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Because why should those who actually play sport have all the fun of talking about it? In what will probably be my last post of the Olympics (will be spending this weekend at family celebrations, rather than fuming over the marginalisation of some group or other), I want to look at the most marginal of marginal figures. If you haven't read it, STOP READING THIS BLOGGING RUBBISH RIGHT NOW and go and get hold of a copy. Seriously.). Rooted in her race. As one final example, take a look at this. Article on ...
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Beyond Cow Corner: February 2011
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Because why should those who actually play sport have all the fun of talking about it? Putting Mr Creosote on a Diet. This weekend sees the start of that period in the cricketing year when the ICC seem to think that taking a tired and disillusioned format that has been superseded in the entertainment stakes by the upstart younger brother (Twenty20) and that has never had the prestige of the grandaddy of the game (Test) and producing a staggeringly bloated. Maybe England should be classed as minnows, too&...
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Beyond Cow Corner: July 2010
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Because why should those who actually play sport have all the fun of talking about it? Four Months to Go. Strange though it may seem, given that we're still a few days shy of August, tomorrow sees the start of England's final Test series before this winter's Ashes. Though Alec Stewart was right to call for a focus on the opponents in hand when he surveyed England's prospects against Pakistan. F'rinstance - be turned at least partially Brisbane-wards. The selectors have taken a commendable gamble on Morga...
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Beyond Cow Corner: And Now, The End Is Near
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Because why should those who actually play sport have all the fun of talking about it? And Now, The End Is Near. Over the past few days, I've been musing on age, the passing of the years, Time's wingèd chariot, and all that. But enough about missing deadlines and depressing conversations about years of birth; I'm talking about athletes on their (literal and metaphorical) last legs. In amongst the stellar performances from teenage wunderkinds. And the sharing of gold and silver men's 400m medals. I said t...
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Beyond Cow Corner: November 2010
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Because why should those who actually play sport have all the fun of talking about it? Things We Have Learnt from the Ashes So Far. Cook's place is probably not under threat:. An average of 310 in the 2010 Ashes to date will do wonders for a batsman's self-confidence. Trott is yet to play an Ashes test without making a hundred:. Ok, so it's a fairly small sample, but it's the sort of thing to get up the collective nose of an Ozzie attack. Speaking of which. Doherty and Johnson are no Warne and McGrath:.
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Beyond Cow Corner: July 2012
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Because why should those who actually play sport have all the fun of talking about it? Gender Trouble; or, Why Some Areas of International Sport Appear to Be a Bit Edwardian, Still. Marginality: 7/10 (I thought this topic was either incredibly marginal [up near 10], because the sidelining aspects of gender in sport are such troubling issues, or not at all, because these questions are so very mainstream. In the end, I wussed out and split the difference.). I know there's been criticism of Tom Daley since ...
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Beyond Cow Corner: 'Everybody hates us -- we don't care'
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Because why should those who actually play sport have all the fun of talking about it? Everybody hates us - we don't care'. Marginality score: 6/10 (This scoring will be a regular thing, as I give my highly objective tariff for the relative marginal status of each of the sports/competitors I blog about. Because everyone likes ratings, right? Or maybe it's just stats geeks like me.). In a one-off race, however (the Olympic road race, for instance), there are two major differences. First of all, overal...
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Beyond Cow Corner: January 2012
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Because why should those who actually play sport have all the fun of talking about it? It should have been an amazing weekend of sport. Final stages of the Aussie open tennis; Liverpool- ManU and QPR- Chelsea in the FA Cup, among many other football ties; latter part of an evenly balanced Pakistan- England Test in Abu Dhabi; David Gourlay on the brink of his second World Indoor Bowls title, after a gap of 16 years.(Ok, not the last one. I'm not that. Much of a sports fan.). 145 to knock off, then: easy.
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Beyond Cow Corner: Torch, Torch, Run with Torch
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Because why should those who actually play sport have all the fun of talking about it? Torch, Torch, Run with Torch. My first post of a marginal nature concerns the sideshow of lighting the Olympic flame. This can be the most beautiful of moments (think of Mohammed Ali in 1996. But it's usually a bit of a pointless exercise (the 22-year-old virtual unknown John Mark in 1948. Springs to mind). So when Daley Thompson and Steve Redgrave (sorry, Sir SR) have a slightly undignified spat. Pinsent once held the...
