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A collection of 402 issues

Box Your Chimp

I cheered on Ronnie O’Sullivan all the way for his fourth Snooker World Title over the weekend. As with many sprinkled with genius, he’s a fruitloop. The most naturally gifted person ever to bridge upon the green baize has shown remarkable focus (for him) since deploying the services

Newton's Kicking Force

Very into this year’s Super Rugby. Especially as my team, Cape Town’s Stormers, have a cracking chance of glory. The Bloem franchise are notable this season for their new young kicking sensation [http://www.sportlive.co.za/rugby/superrugby/article4808223.ece]. He’s not a big lad by

Where History Begins

[/content/images/wordpress/2012/05/where-history-begins-loughborough-wallslogans.jpg] Here’s world-leading sentiments from Team GB’s main training camp [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9222204/London-2012-Olympics-Inside-the-medal-factory-of-Team-GB-at-Loughborough-University.html] ahead of the Olympics. (Remember, the country came a record beating fourth in Beijing through this thinking). > What we have tried to

Associator vs Dissociator

Another bank holiday weekend post. It’s a five day break here in Cape Town. I’ve been going for the odd run along the prom and like I always have done, I listen to music all the way. I find it helps get over those difficult first few minutes.

Process Equipment Results

I did something Sunday I do rarely these days. I planned to watch a grand prix. For over a decade the paint drying on a nearby ceiling has been more interesting. Yet all of a sudden, the pants can wet. There were flashes of it last year. Jenson Button’s

Constant Video Reminders

English rugby club Saracens clearly want to break the mould. They appear to deliberately seek out innovation [http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/apr/06/saracens-ipads-statistics-heineken-cup] . There’s a couple of things about this that interests the salesman in me. Overall, how is any salesforce trying to introduce innovation

Suggestopedia

I was gripped by the climax of golf’s US Masters. What a blight that the host club themselves are such disgraceful dinosaurs. Still, although the winner was an American, rather than my favourite tractor boy from near Cape Town, Louis Oosthuizen, it was an American of which we can

Pyramid Of Success

England can rejoice. Stuart Lancaster gets the top rugby job. He is now our managerial hope to bring world cup glory, back on home turf in 2015. All along S African Nick Mallett was expected to waltz into Twickenham. Yet the product of the national coaching system grew into the

McEnroe's Desire

John McEnroe. Awesome 80s tennis champion. Bit of a temper, though. In the rush to dampen expectations following an English junior US open victory, one journo in The Times looks at the real qualities needed to be a courtside superstar. He quoted ‘Mac’. On his most important quality of a

Visualisation

I meandered around paper sites the other day for a quick sport fix and stayed on this lengthy article [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/sep/16/fernando-torres-goal-drought] , notable for it’s welcome, different approach. Perhaps it’s because it’s written by a woman. An overall decent