Author: Ashley Morrison

Hockey India League Heading in The Right Direction.

The second Hero Hockey India League has reached the semi-final stage with the same four teams from 2013 facing off to challenge for the title today in Ranchi. Uttar Pradesh Wizards will play Delhi Waveriders and Jaypee Punjab Warriors will

True Olympic Spirit

Every Olympic Games there are moments that make you realise that sport is not always about winning. Moments that would make Baron Pierre de Coubertin proud, as he envisaged the games as being far more than a stage for the

Cold War Revisited?

In these days of neutral officials at sporting events one has to sympathise with the Russians at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. In the host nation’s Ice Hockey match with the USA, the referee, Brad Meier, an American, disallowed a

Ladies First – At Last.

One of the reasons it took women so long to be accepted as competitors in the Olympic Games was the view that they should only engage ‘in restrained and non-violent’ exercises to protect their ‘peculiar function of multiplying the species.’

FIFA Turns Up the Heat

FIFA have announced that they will conduct surprise doping tests of all World Cup Players starting in March allowing them to set up a biological passport to determine and irregularities in blood or urine samples. They have also stated that