Entries Tagged as 'Sports and Leisure'
If the Big Three Don’t Get Their Bailout, Maybe Renault Will Move In For the Kill
Telegraph Motoring - Heating up the horizon As manufacturers scramble to give us more for less, the future looks hot – for those cool enough to pull it off, by James May
I’ve already driven my first small car with a hot engine — the Renault Twingo 133 – and I absolutely love it. It’s [...]
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Etiquette for Standing Alongside a School Sports Pitch
Clarkson is very entertaining today:
The Sunday Times - The daddy of all idiots at your child’s school sports day, by Jeremy Clarkson
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Why Not Meeeeeeee!
This one’s for Half, too:
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Only Footballers in Only Italy
Super creepy:
The Sunday Times - Footballers fall prey to fatal disease A spate of deaths from motor neurone disease has rocked the game in Italy
In a case that could have come straight from the pages of a medical thriller, Italy is investigating a mysterious epidemic among former professional footballers, dozens of whom have been [...]
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CXCVI
I’m in an unbelievably foul mood. I’m surrounded by charlatans, spies and assassins all! So, here, have a little Abbot and Costello in Typography:
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CXCV
Peter Recommends XCIII
Auto Blog - Paris Preview: Fiat Abarth 500 esse esse revealed
WHY NOT MEEEEEEEEEEEE
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THIS is Why I Love Wiki
Peter was just showing me pictures of the new Chevy Volt (which he likes, but really, it’s no 500), and I was musing on the cuteness of the name: “‘Volt’ is one of those stupid American car names that totally blends in with the background noise of stupid American car names, but then you think [...]
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CLXXXIX
F1 driver Riccardo Patrese takes his slightly Italian wife on a tour around a track in a Civic Type-R while secretly filming it:
Peter just sent this to me, but it’s too funny to just give to him.
If you know how “Oh god”, “Mother of God”, “Oh please” and “No no no no!” all loosely translate [...]
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Send In the Clowns
The Sunday Times - Final word Now for the dance of the H&S inspectors
China set the tone for this year’s Olympics with its breathtaking opening ceremony on Friday and, in the process, created a problem for the London 2012 team. Barely had the final firework spluttered before British officials were studying their wallets gloomily [...]
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Stuff I’d Like to Have Read This Week - Last Weekend in Seattle Edition
Hey, guess what! I have a whole bunch of stuff to do! So here, mea culpa, me and my blog: love did tear us apart.
The Times - How Chairman Mao led China to humiliation The Great Helmsman’s mishandling of the nuclear crisis with the Soviet Union was a turning point in world history, by George Walden
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Polo Like Ralph Lauren (Oh No She Didn’t!)
The Times - Katie Price: why was I snubbed by the polo snobs? I know far more about horses than the toffs who were made welcome, by Katie Price
I didn’t want to go to Windsor to meet royalty. I’ve met the Prince of Wales and the Queen before. I don’t need to be photographed [...]
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Friday Night Star Lights
Telegraph Blogs - Joe Montana’s and Wayne Gretzky’s juniors
The sons of former American sports stars’ Joe Montana and Wayne Gretzky are competing for the same quarterback position at the same high school. Nicholas Montana, at 6ft 2in, is the son of NFL Hall of Fame quarterback and 49er [...]
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Ooh, How Novel
Today That Would Barely Cover the Childishly Absurd Logo
The Times - Just the Sports, Please The Olympic movement must slim down if it is to thrive
They are the greatest show on Earth. But they are played out on such a scale that it is pointless to pretend, as the Beijing Organising Committee continues to do, that they are not political. If the [...]
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