sport & selling

One of sport’s most well-known quotes is surely from 9-time golf major champion, Gary Player; “the more I practice, the luckier I get“. So I was intrigued to catch a CNN chat with him alongside 20-year old Northern Ireland prodigy, Rory McIlroy. Player was asked to pass on wisdom.

Premiership managers are often heard talking about how they must first reach 40 points. It is at such a mark that they feel they preserve their prized status for another year. Gain 40 points, so the theory goes, and after all 38 games are done and dusted, you won’t

Serena Williams is still on top of her game, yet looked down and out in her Aussie Open Quarter when four-love adrift to Victoria Azarenka in the second set, having also lost the opener. But somehow she turned it around to triumph  4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2. As she walked

A BBC News  Hard Talk interview with Graham Poll turned up an interesting gem. He’s a former football ref who officiated at two World Cups. The questioner asked whether he shared the lay-man’s commonly held belief that a good referee is an invisible one. Poll replied that this

Graham Swann’s recent jibe that  England continue to single-handedly keep Test cricket alive became a nail-bitingly brilliant mantra for the final day’s play in Cape Town’s drawn Third Test. With the final rubber about to start, I spent some downtime flicking on the cricketing web through recent

Talk of the huge sums of money on offer at the men’s tennis ATP World Tour finals ($1.6m to an undefeated victor for a week’s work) reminded me of a reflective anecdote recounted by ubiquitous 80s snooker champ, Steve Davis. He was asked if he ever thought

Watching the enthralling end-of-season tennis Masters, in London for the next five years, it was interesting to hear Boris Becker’s uncomplicated take on life. When asked how Andy Murray could raise his game to win a match, he replied that in such circumstances people can often try too many

There’s a Global Sport Summit that this year is in London. Sport Coaches from around the world gather to swap ideas, and three major England coaches were caught by the BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/8322759.stm] discussing how to get the best out of