Showing posts with label Highlights of the Decade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Highlights of the Decade. Show all posts
Friday, 22 January 2010
Highlights of the Decade: Cricinfo's list
Cricinfo has published a list of the best cricketing performances of the 2000s (parts one and two). The performances they have chosen are certainly classics, but have they missed anything? Feel free to add your thoughts.
Monday, 11 January 2010
Press round up
Courtesy of The Observer: Ten technical innovations that changed sport.
An interesting list which harks back to a different era, one of independent, and often amateur, innovators. It is hard to imagine many of the sports mentioned without the equipment in this list.
Photographer Tom Jenkins chooses his pictures of the decade.
Eddie Butler rounds up England's selection options for the Six Nations, with the squad due to be announced on Wednesday. He proposes some interesting ideas, including the suggestion that Delon Armitage might play at centre, although the obsession he shares with other pundits about playing Jonny Wilkinson at inside centre I think overlooks Wilkinson's lack of dynamism. Even if the inside centre is picked as a second fly-half, he still needs to be able to offer traditional inside centre traits, such as crash ball options, which Wilkinson does not. Similarly, Courtney Lawes has become the darling of several leading journalists, but he cannot get into the Northampton team at lock, and is not an obvious pick at blindside flanker. One excellent performance against Munster and Paul O'Connell brought him to national attention, but he needs more performances of that standard before he plays for England.
Meanwhile The Times looks at the risks of eye-gouging, and the importance of Julien Dupuy's disciplinary hearing to the future of the game.
Simon Barnes looks at the ball-tampering row engulfing England's tour of South Africa, and points out the hypocrisy of blaming bowlers for all the game's ills (I'm not sure about the taking of a wicket as the "ultimate point of arousal" mind you).
Mike Selvey suggests that South Africa should be careful what they wish for before they instruct the groundsman to prepare a result pitch for the final test match which starts in Johannesburg on Thursday.
An interesting list which harks back to a different era, one of independent, and often amateur, innovators. It is hard to imagine many of the sports mentioned without the equipment in this list.
Photographer Tom Jenkins chooses his pictures of the decade.
Eddie Butler rounds up England's selection options for the Six Nations, with the squad due to be announced on Wednesday. He proposes some interesting ideas, including the suggestion that Delon Armitage might play at centre, although the obsession he shares with other pundits about playing Jonny Wilkinson at inside centre I think overlooks Wilkinson's lack of dynamism. Even if the inside centre is picked as a second fly-half, he still needs to be able to offer traditional inside centre traits, such as crash ball options, which Wilkinson does not. Similarly, Courtney Lawes has become the darling of several leading journalists, but he cannot get into the Northampton team at lock, and is not an obvious pick at blindside flanker. One excellent performance against Munster and Paul O'Connell brought him to national attention, but he needs more performances of that standard before he plays for England.
Meanwhile The Times looks at the risks of eye-gouging, and the importance of Julien Dupuy's disciplinary hearing to the future of the game.
Simon Barnes looks at the ball-tampering row engulfing England's tour of South Africa, and points out the hypocrisy of blaming bowlers for all the game's ills (I'm not sure about the taking of a wicket as the "ultimate point of arousal" mind you).
Mike Selvey suggests that South Africa should be careful what they wish for before they instruct the groundsman to prepare a result pitch for the final test match which starts in Johannesburg on Thursday.
Thursday, 31 December 2009
Highlights of the Decade: Round-up 2
The Guardian has published its complete list of the decade's highlights, sport by sport.
Monday, 28 December 2009
Highlights of the Decade: Best of the Press
A round up of various end of the decade lists:
Deadspin's best pieces of American sports writing of the decade.
The Guardian picks its six best moments, six best footballers, six best goals and top ten rugby matches. The paper also takes a fascinating and damning look at the state of English football's finances over the last ten years.
Comedian and Cricinfo blogger, Andy Zaltzman gives part one of his cricketing highlights.
NFL Network runs down the top ten performances of the decade.
Deadspin's best pieces of American sports writing of the decade.
The Guardian picks its six best moments, six best footballers, six best goals and top ten rugby matches. The paper also takes a fascinating and damning look at the state of English football's finances over the last ten years.
Comedian and Cricinfo blogger, Andy Zaltzman gives part one of his cricketing highlights.
NFL Network runs down the top ten performances of the decade.
Saturday, 26 December 2009
NFL: Highlights of the Decade
NFL Total Access have been unveiling some end of the decade lists. Here are their best games and moments.
The list of games seems reasonable, but there are some oddities on the moments list, notably the Matt Stafford touchdown and the Patriots fourth down failure, but both happened this year, so benefitted from the usual prejudice towards more recent events. No question that the Favre moment at number two deserves to be there though. See what you think.
The list of games seems reasonable, but there are some oddities on the moments list, notably the Matt Stafford touchdown and the Patriots fourth down failure, but both happened this year, so benefitted from the usual prejudice towards more recent events. No question that the Favre moment at number two deserves to be there though. See what you think.
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