Category: BASKETBALL
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Refuges of a desperate insomniac
Commercialisation of sports, either by individuals or conglomerates, bugs me. Look no further than what Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan has done to the club. Welsh people are fiercely – and rightly – proud sports people. How must the Cardiff fans feel to have seen the identity of their club more or less discarded? The…
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Appealing to the widest audience possible
One of the foibles of this job is – partly at least – having the contradict yourself. Being in the position, it instead tends to be seen as adapting a viewpoint as circumstances change and dictate. Now read on… Some months ago, I did a column outlining how the broadening of horizons – in the…
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Sometimes clichés are unavoidable!
Think of any provincial GAA ground in the country. They are all usually located in the centre of big times. These places are generally notoriously difficult to get in or out of. Everybody will have their own theories – or more to the point alternative routes – for dealing with such matters. More often than…
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Sunday salvation for chasers of the hoop dream
Around this time last year, this machine produced a column bemoaning the paltry nature of the coverage afforded to Basketball in this country. At the risk of being labelled boring for harrowing up old ground, here’s a very brief rundown. From a point where, when your columnist was younger, both men’s semi finals and the…