Sports

Warrior

Unfulfilling sports drama starring Nick Nolte, Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton

14 Sep 2011

(12A) 139min The underdog fighter with family issues is back in a big way this year. First came David O. Russell’s Oscar-winner The Fighter, and now writer/director Gavin O’Connor (Pride and Glory) delivers his challenger, a two-hour-plus…

Sports round-up

1 Mar 2009

SIX NATIONS The hype surrounding these matches is at bursting point, as they enter into the final stages. And while Scotland may not be the hottest at rugby (in terms of skill or dashing good looks), you can’t deny that we still continue to throw…

Martin Greig - The Zen of Naka

11 Dec 2008

SPORTS BIOGRAPHY Timing is everything when it comes to sport biogs. As Celtic tumble out of Europe in a flurry of missed opportunities, and with rumours rife that Shunsuke Nakamura may part company with the club in January, it seems Martin Greig’s…

Also Published - 5 Sports Paperbacks

24 Apr 2008

Barry Davies - Interesting, Very Interesting Over 40 years of broadcast commentating are recalled here by a man who reached the peaks when he went on Big Train to cover the World Stare Out Championships. Headline. Eddie Jordan – An Independent Man…

Trampolining

27 Mar 2008

My training for this Olympic sport began at a tender age. I was three years old, and a friend had hired a bouncy castle for her birthday party. Back then I wasn’t really thinking about the cardiovascular favours I was doing my body, or the muscular…