QUESTIONNAIRE: Steve James Former England Cricketer Turned Sports JournalistHow difficult has the transition been from professional sportsman to sports journalist?The Independent (London, England)
Bliss.Alan Rickman, it turns out, was my friend. I was such a fan from the moment I saw him in Die Hard. I assumed we were just associates, but he stayed in touch the rest of his life. Whenever I was in England, he would call out of the blue and say – I can’t do the v...
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The thing about being good at cricket was that it gave me a free pass to not be bullied: ‘Leave him alone, he’s the cricketer.’ I was terrible at football, I hated rugby, so I studied in the winter and played cricket in the summer. I fell out of love with it when it ...
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