Category Archive: Sports

Sponsored by Nike and Nikon, where the power lies

Sponsored by Nike and Nikon, where the power lies

The 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics (or Track and Field as I would call it) are going on in Osaka this week, and because …

 

Creep: by any other name

Creep: by any other name

The usually decent SoccerBlog.com has a slightly misguided post about how the language of soccer is suffering from “insidious word creep” because there has been an upsurge in Americans taking to talking about “assists”.

 

Cheering on the Americans, for chrissakes

Cheering on the Americans, for chrissakes

It’s almost 6 a.m. here and I really should be in bed — especially given I only had 3 hours of sleep last night — …

 

Pulling for English (but not England)

Pulling for English (but not England)

Let me vent for a little bit. It seems increasingly clear — albeit only 4 games into the World Cup (I just finished watching Trinidad …

 

World Cup Blogging

World Cup Blogging

Not surprisingly, as in 2002, there are plenty of blogs that are dedicated to following World Cup 2006 in Germany. My RSS reader is reaching …

 

My father looks back

My father looks back

I came across this tonight, quite by random: an article written by my father, James “Pancho” Easterwood, a couple of years ago, for the paper …