It's been more than a decade since the Philadelphia 76ers began their so-called "process" to tank-the-team, earn high draft picks, and set themselves up for a bright future. This strategy has now become the norm across sports, and for the Sixers' sake, it did yield them Joel Embiid...
This one is more of an ending line, but if there’s chemistry, don’t be afraid to ask your crush what their Instagram handle is. DM them a day or two later saying it was great to meet them. Resist the urge to move too fast; just let the romance evolve in the gym and bloom on...
no winner is selected. This is called a draw and occurs, among other things, in bad playing weather, something for which no time is added. To avoid a draw, the team captain often declares an innings for the finish before
Once you begin to have a clear vision for what you want in each of these categories, then you can truly start thinking about how to achieve everything you want in life. In the words of cricket umpire Bill Copeland “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life ...
This is not cricket but baseball, which was more akin to our sport in 1920 than today, in at least one respect: one ball was used throughout a game. It was common practice to scuff that ball, spit on it, and discolour it, helping it move in the air and become hard to spot at ...
You’re highly likely to spend the evening whining about the same with a friend or social media. Instead of introspection and self-improvisation, lack of acceptability kills the improvement instinct in us. In a sport, one has to accept the final decision of the referee or umpire. One has ...
I tell the story of when I was verbally abused as an umpire on the field of play and how it affected me. That was in a friendly match. England are in no position to lob bricks at anyone over this issue, but also I’m not some old fuddy-duddy who doesn’t know real world attitu...
The numbers of migrants trying to cross from the Libya on the coast of north Africa to one of the EU's southern nations is increasing. Europe's impoverished southern nations can't cope. And in the better off nations of northern Europe immigration is a toxic issue which is fuelling the ri...
It's been more than a decade since the Philadelphia 76ers began their so-called "process" to tank-the-team, earn high draft picks, and set themselves up for a bright future. This strategy has now become the norm across sports, and for the Sixers' sake, it did yield them Joel Embiid...