This day in sport: 14 April 1910

President kickstarts baseball tradition United States President William Howard Taft inaugurated the baseball season by throwing out the first ball to Walter Johnson, before the Washington Senators’ home game against Philadelphia. The act began a baseball tradition that Taft’s successors

Fanpower

No longer will the technical study group from FIFA decide the player of the match at the FIFA World Cup, but for the first time ever it will be the fans who decide in South Africa. This is all about

Double For Luke

At the weekend we reported that Luke Bunting had won the Chris Dittmar Challenge in Adelaide. We are pleased to report that he also won the follow up tournament the Vicki Cardwell National Junior Classic on Sunday. It has been

Gold for Ghabrial

Western Australia’s Claire Ghabrial won gold at the Turkish Prime Ministry boxing tournament held in Ankara Turkey at the weekend. Unfortunately for Claire after winning all three bouts in the first three days her opponent in the final, Katie Taylor

When News is Not News

Now we are obviously big sports fans and that is how the show and the blog came into being, but sometimes sport has to be put in context. Last night some television stations headline news story in their six o’clock