THEY'RE part of the world's fastest growing women's sport, boast a membership that's grown five-fold in just two years and their games attract thousands of spectators but their inability to find a permanent home could spell the end of the Byron Bay-based roller derby league team, the Bay Rollers.
Football, with good reason, is often described as a chess match. A lot more time is spent thinking and strategizing than actually running plays, and one crafty move can set off a series of countermoves that changes the course of the game. But you don't have to be some kind of Grand Master to understand -- or at least pretend to understand -- the sport.
Manchester City made the best of difficult conditions to keep the pressure on Manchester United when they visit Chelsea on Sunday afternoon, brushing off a negligible Fulham challenge to win by three goals and put the same number of points between themselves and their neighbours. It was not a vintage display but it was never going to be, given the wintry weather. City simply needed a convincing ...
DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: I often think we're living in the Malaise Era of transmission programming.
M-Sport Crews Continue Monte Carlo Charge Evgeney Novikov and Denis Giraudet, Ford Fiesta RS WRC Photo by: Ford Motor Company On day 3 of the 80th Rallye Monte-Carlo, the M-Sport Ford World Rally Team crews showed further progression over three competitive stages totalling 77.3 kilometres. On target for his best ever WRC finish, Russia’s Evgeny Novikov lies fifth. Monte Carlo specialist ...
Flat out around Phillip Island gives a new appreciation for the ability - and speed - of BMW's most powerful car, the four-door M5.
Brad Wing and Jesse Williams have walked very different paths, writes Dave Skretta in New Orleans.
Peter Drew knew when he took the helm of Wales’ national tennis operation that the road to producing a superstar was a mammoth one. Graham Henry went to meet him.
Megan Jendrick took the world by surprise at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. After a frustrating near miss at the 2004 Olympic Trials, the Washington native came back and made the team in 2008, finaling in Beijing.
Mark Spitz reckons that - just as he had by the time he hit the comeback trail in the early 1990s aged 41 - Ian Thorpe, Janet Evans et al have lost their edge and won't be able to find it; but tell that to Torres and Boomer - and Quick up in pool heaven
Peter Drew knew when he took the helm of Wales’ national tennis operation that the road to producing a superstar was a mammoth one. And as Andy Murray edged agonisingly close to another major final in a memorable clash with Novak Djokovic in front of a global audience of millions, the contrast with what happens day-to-day in Cardiff Bay couldn’t be more stark. Graham Henry went to meet him.
Peter Drew knew when he took the helm of Wales’ national tennis operation that the road to producing a superstar was a mammoth one. And as Andy Murray edged agonisingly close to another major final in a memorable clash with Novak Djokovic in front of a global audience of millions, the contrast with what happens day-to-day in Cardiff Bay couldn’t be more stark. Graham Henry went to meet him.
Sensation of 1968 Winter Olympics remains an enthusiastic proponent of the sport.
Bob Sansevere of the Pioneer Press: Even though Kevin Love would have been a restricted free agent and not likely to leave next season, the Wolves had to send a message to Love, his teammates and fans that they were committed to keeping him as a core member of the team. The message would have been even stronger if the Wolves had given Love the fifth year he wanted instead of an opt-out after ...
Floyd Mayweather is coming up with the same old reasons why the Manny Pacquiao fight has yet to happen.
The Allianz Football League got underway with a mouth-watering double-header at Croke Park. Read back on proceedings here.
It's 4:45 a.m. and thousands of people are waiting in sub-freezing temperatures to enter a 20,000-seat arena for a competitive-eating contest that's been sold out for weeks.
Jack Hansen loves the Special Olympics – summer games, winter ones: He’s participated.
Self-made businessman believes key to breaking ordinary life chain is the ability to communicate in different languages other than your mother tongue.
The next wave of merchandise planning has arrived: SAS® Retail Planning, which provides the ability to “speak the language” of individual stores, overcomes computing limitations and drives profits.
