For many people, sports are things that involve being physically active and moving about a lot. Football, tennis and rugby sit at the top of the list, whilst the likes of darts remain debatable in some quarters. Yet there is a new breed of competitions that technically fit into the bracket of ‘sport’, despite what […]
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Inside the Crazy World of Professional eSports Players 6j5c40
Think of the sort of stereotypes associated with playing computer games and you’d likely conjure up an image of an overweight, spotty teenager with poor personal hygiene. TV shows like The Simpsons have helped to cultivate that kind of picture, to say nothing of the millions of teenagers who lock themselves in a way to […]
Anyone who has ever been to an airport will have seen a competition to win a car. It’s not just a car, either. We’re not talking about clapped out old Volkswagens or an original Mini. It’s normally a supercar or the kind of vehicle that you could only afford to drive if you won the […]
What Ever Happened to Stan James? 2tw33
There was a time at which Stan James was a significant presence on the British high street, with the company opening its first shop in Oxfordshire in 1973. The company grew in the years that followed, up to the point that it was able to start buying smaller companies and operate in more than a […]
How to Avoid the Sharks in Online Poker 343ic
Online poker’s popularity has enjoyed peaks and troughs over the years since it first became a going concern. There are numerous reasons for this, not the least of which is the fact that poker itself has seen its popularity explode and wane at different times. Another reason for a dip in online poker’s popularity, especially […]
There’s an English phrase, ‘that’s not cricket’. The general notion of it is that something isn’t fair or right. The idea, of course, is that cricket itself is gentleman’s game and therefore the players are honest and true. Even within the sport itself there’s a generally accepted notion that a batter should walk off if […]
The horse racing industry has long been rife with families that it down from generation to generation. The modern version of the sport is just as guilty, with some of the best names in the business being the offspring of others. Elsewhere we’ve written about the likes of Ruby Walsh, his dad, Ted, and […]
You may well have found your way to this page from the overview one about the various family dynasties in the world of horse racing. If not, it’s worth having a look at to get a sense of the manner in which so much of the horse racing industry is about successful families keeping things […]
Elsewhere on the site there’s an overview piece looking at the various horse racing families, so here we’re going to look a closer look at one of them: the Mullins family. Willie Mullins is one of the most successful trainers in the business, but he comes from a horse racing family and isn’t the only […]
It would be unfair to describe the world of horse racing as a closed shop, yet it’s also true that there are certain families that seem to have been involved in the industry for decades. Like father like son, as the old saying goes; although when it comes to horse racing that applies just as […]