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May 11, 2025
Does Wrexham's Hollywood Script go all the way to the Premiership?
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Buying a soccer team in Europe is an extremely high risk investment. It is not like investing in an American franchise where positive return...
Apr 24, 2025
Can the Gunners break the curse?
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Arsenal Football Club just beat Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals. They won 2-1 in the second leg at the Bernabéu Stad...
Apr 11, 2025
The British are coming!
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A small brigade of British golfers is leading the charge at Augusta this week. As the Masters Tournament unfolds at the iconic Augusta Natio...
Mar 31, 2025
A Humble Southern Hemisphere Hero #5: Kirsty Coventry
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Kirsty Leigh Coventry, a name synonymous with swimming excellence, etched her place in history as Africa's most decorated Olympian and o...
Mar 23, 2025
McLaren's best team in a quarter century
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Formula One officially began as a world championship competition less than 5 years after the end of World War 2, with the first race held in...
Feb 28, 2025
Six Nations Rugby Points Permutations
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The Six Nations Championship is an annual international rugby union tournament contested by the national teams of England, France, Ireland, ...
Feb 10, 2025
Philly Eagles win the Super Bowl in New Orleans
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"Show. Me. The. Money!" was a popular line from the 1996 film Jerry McGuire starring Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr. In that movi...
Dec 1, 2024
A Humble Southern Hemisphere Hero #4: Ernie Els
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Ernie Els, affectionately known as the "Big Easy," is a South African golfing legend whose career is marked by his big powerful go...
Nov 26, 2024
Solo sailing race supervised from space
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The Vendée Globe is a single-handed, non-stop, and unassisted round-the-world yacht race. It's considered the ultimate test of human end...
Nov 25, 2024
F1 heats up as Verstappen joins the immortals
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Max Verstappen secured his fourth consecutive Formula 1 World Championship title at the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix this Saturday night. The 2...
Nov 24, 2024
SailGP 2025: A New Era of High-Stakes Racing
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The new SailGP sailing series is a go. The season just started yesterday, November 23rd 2024, in Abu Dhabi with the first of 14 events gett...
Oct 31, 2024
Now professional athletes can invest in their own leagues
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Ever dreamed of owning stake in the sports team or league that you play for or work for? That is beyond the means of most of us. But what ...
Oct 21, 2024
A Humble Southern Hemisphere Hero #3: Diego Elias
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27-year-old Peruvian Diego Elias is the current squash world champion. In Cairo, Egypt, in May 2024, this young athlete won the CIB PSA Wor...
Oct 20, 2024
New Zealand take America's Cup for the 3rd time in a row
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The America's Cup, at 173 years old, is the oldest international sporting trophy and stands as one of the hardest trophies for anyone to...
Sep 23, 2024
The Rippers of Oz win the LIV Team Championship title for 2024
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The LIV Golf season concluded with a thrilling team victory for Cameron Smith's all-Aussie Ripper Golf Club. In the final round of the T...
Sep 9, 2024
A Symphony of Sound at the Paris Paralympics
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The Paralympic Games, a global sporting event for athletes with disabilities, have a rich history dating back to the mid-20th century. The G...
Aug 31, 2024
Looking back at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
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The Paris 2024 Olympic Games were a spectacle of athletic prowess and international camaraderie. While every event offered its own unique th...
Aug 9, 2024
OLYMPICS SUMMARY (AFTER PARIS)
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Here is a summary of some of the biggest medal winning countries at the Paris Olympics: Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 United State...
Aug 1, 2024
OLYMPICS SUMMARY (BEFORE PARIS)
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Here is a summary of statistics and results from the Summer Olympics over the course of history (last 128 years). The first table is the hi...
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