Links tagged with “sport”
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Behind F1’s Velvet Curtain
“… in America … To be a have-not and be talked to by the haves has an air of the farcical to it. Everything is just manners with nothing inside.”
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The Online Photographer: The Worst Player in the NBA
The post and the featured comments on the gap between good amateurs and pros in various sports and professions.
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NFL’s British accent - SBNation.com
On British fans of NFL football (as opposed to fans of British American football), and why they’re not bothered about getting a London NFL franchise.
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Success by Benjamin Markovits (London Review of Books)
I’m not into sport but love articles like this, which ponders why England/GB has been successful in recent years at some sports. Business, statistics, culture, etc.
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The Dan Plan
Spending 10,000 hours (a la Gladwell) over six years to learn to golf from scratch, hoping to become a top professional. I often wonder how late in life you could still become expert at something new. (via Kottke)
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NFLUK.com - News List - Football’s coming home to Channel 4
Channel 4 gets Sunday Night Football. I’m very glad there’s some free-to-air NFL again, but am amazed deals like this are only finalised a week before the season starts. I hope the presenters are as good as Five’s were.
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Word Spy - parahawking
“A sport where paragliders follow birds of prey that have been trained to look for and follow thermal updrafts that enable the pilots to stay aloft.”
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Cool Running :: The Couch-to-5K Running Plan
Just in case running becomes more appealing one day, now I’ve cancelled my gym membership. (via Yoz)