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Animal worship: horse reverence in Australia
26 Apr 2013What a spectacle it can be – people shedding tears over a mare raised for profit and people wishing that the horse had run in a race. When Black Caviar retired last week, there were tears over an animal who has been retired after a perfect record of 25 wins from 25 starts. “It all [...]
Mike Denness: elegance amidst turmoil
23 Apr 2013The remarks by Mike Selvey in The Observer about the passing of Mike Denness are fitting. He was a deft, elegant player of spin with tantalizing offside driving; the first Scot to captain England, and compiler of almost 26,000 first-class runs at a healthy average of 33.48. Between 1969 and 1975, he played 28 Test [...]
The culture of almanacks: Wisden turns 150
15 Apr 2013Almanacks are the jewels of culture. They tend to exude eccentric promise – trivia, bits of information that would not reason to have a home other than a person’s curiosity. When Benjamin Franklin compiled his collection of wise sayings in Poor Richard’s Alamack, he was performing an act of mighty fine synthesis. “Light purse, heavy [...]
When it is more than a game: football violence in Egypt and Spain
13 Mar 2013It is frenzied and continuing, but the riots in Egypt have become so regular as to suggest that the Arab Spring never stopped. The country, even post-Mubarak, is seething with insurrection. And the outlets of dissatisfaction, expressed via social media and sport, are everywhere. The violence during the week in Egypt might be termed football [...]
Montevideo and the story of Serbian football
22 Jan 2013To be on the margins of existence, to constantly hug its outlines and live in its silhouette, is taxing. Some of this burden is an undertaking. In other senses, it’s inflicted. This is very much a Serbian narrative, though it might easily be seen as a story of Baltic or Polish survival. The glory days [...]
The logic of the bully: Smith’s captaincy
4 Dec 2012In cricket, as in any field of endeavour, there are victories that in time undermine the premise of the battle. Why bother wielding bat and bowling ball when the odds are obscenely insuperable? Does it make sense for mounted cavalry to take to the field against tanks? When waged in conditions of total war, cricket [...]
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