Archive for July, 2007


Beckhams in LA

Beckhams invade LA

Saturday, 28th July 2007 at 2:01 pm

Reality TV appearance (Victoria), glossy magazine shoot, celebrity welcome party… it’s been an understated entrance for Brand Beckham in LA. An ankle injury - which may or may not have been sustained after accidentally standing on Tom Cruise at last …

Johnny Borrell

Johnny Borrell on cricket

Saturday, 28th July 2007 at 1:43 pm

Mick Jagger is probably cricket’s biggest rock star fan, but he isn’t the only one, as evidenced by this particular quote from Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell, picked up earlier in the week by Cricinfo. Explaining how he picked up his interest …

Rugby World Cup heading same way as the Tour de France

Friday, 27th July 2007 at 10:49 am

Cheating and scandal will linger on in France after the Tour de France and into the start of the Rugby World Cup. It seems Heineken’s ad promoting the tournament may not been a clean creative attempt at originality.
Seems that cheating …

Alexandre Vinokourov

Vinokourov goes as Tour crumbles

Tuesday, 24th July 2007 at 10:37 pm

South Africans at least have the exploits of Robert Hunter and Team Barloworld to follow; even that’s of limited solace, however, in the context of a sport in a downward spiral that shows no sign of ending. Last year’s race …

Eddie Jones

Eddie Jones inflicted on Boks

Tuesday, 24th July 2007 at 3:00 pm

You’d think they’d suffered enough this year. A long, demanding Super 14. Regular interference from idiot politicians and administrators. A barrage of abuse from Australia and New Zealand over the squad for the away leg of the Tri-Nations. The threat …

Jerzy Dudek

Do the Dudek? Not any more

Tuesday, 24th July 2007 at 2:50 pm

Liverpool fans still get a dreamy look whenever they remember that magical night in Istanbul in 2005 (a memory that makes an appearance several times a day). The comeback, the penalty shoot-out, lifting the trophy - all now firmly engraved …