In some ways, horse racing is one of the sports industries in which representation isn’t so much of an issue. Compare and contrast it with, say, football or darts, and you’re far more likely to see a lack of equality in those sports. Yet horse racing isn’t without problems of its own. We’ve written about […]
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Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Spot the Ball Competitions
It’s a simply enough concept to understand: a football has been removed from a photograph of a match and all you need to do is identify whereabouts it was before it was airbrushed out. Do so and you can win all sorts of interesting stuff, from cash prizes through to supercars. As with most things […]
The Gender Gap in Football: The Stark Pay Divide Between Men & Women
Football is the most popular sport in the world. Look at virtually any country’s history with the sport and you will notice that it is considered to be the sport that people want to watch more than any other. The only major exception to this rule is in the United States of America, where more […]
Youngest Trainers in Horse Racing
When you think of horse racing and the people involved in it, the most immediate names that will pop into your head are almost certainly going to be those of the jockeys. After all, they are the most public of the people involved and the most likely to be interviewed in the event that the […]
The Biggest eSports Tournaments
For many people, sports are things that involve being physically active and moving about a lot. Football, tennis and rugby sit at the top of the list, whilst the likes of darts remain debatable in some quarters. Yet there is a new breed of competitions that technically fit into the bracket of ‘sport’, despite what […]
Inside the Crazy World of Professional eSports Players
Think of the sort of stereotypes associated with playing computer games and you’d likely conjure up an image of an overweight, spotty teenager with poor personal hygiene. TV shows like The Simpsons have helped to cultivate that kind of picture, to say nothing of the millions of teenagers who lock themselves in a way to […]
Win a Car Competitions: How It Works & Does Anyone Ever Win?
Anyone who has ever been to an airport will have seen a competition to win a car. It’s not just a car, either. We’re not talking about clapped out old Volkswagens or an original Mini. It’s normally a supercar or the kind of vehicle that you could only afford to drive if you won the […]
What Ever Happened to Stan James?
There was a time at which Stan James was a significant presence on the British high street, with the company opening its first shop in Oxfordshire in 1973. The company grew in the years that followed, up to the point that it was able to start buying smaller companies and operate in more than a […]
How to Avoid the Sharks in Online Poker
Online poker’s popularity has enjoyed peaks and troughs over the years since it first became a going concern. There are numerous reasons for this, not the least of which is the fact that poker itself has seen its popularity explode and wane at different times. Another reason for a dip in online poker’s popularity, especially […]
Match Fixing in Cricket: The Scandals & the Players Who Got Caught
There’s an English phrase, ‘that’s not cricket’. The general notion of it is that something isn’t fair or right. The idea, of course, is that cricket itself is gentleman’s game and therefore the players are honest and true. Even within the sport itself there’s a generally accepted notion that a batter should walk off if […]