Sport
March Madness is coming…
America loves sport. From the NFL Super Bowl to the NHL Winter Classic, there are multiple annual events that entice huge crowds from across the country. However, there’s one tournament that you might not have heard about. It’s called March Madness, and it features 68 college basketball teams battling it out for one of the most prestigious and desired prizes in US sport. College kids these participants may be, but March Madness is as much adored across the nation as...
Super Bowl LI – If there is a God
It’s Super Bowl XLIX and Marshawn 'Beast Mode' Lynch has driven the ball to the half yard line for the Seattle Seahawks to set up second and goal with 27 seconds left on the clock in the fourth quarter. With the score tensely poised at 28 points to 24 a touchdown would have surely won it for the NFC champions, but Russell Wilson's pass was intercepted by undrafted free agent Malcolm Butler and the Patriots held on to win Super...
Dele Alli and Chelsea lead the way in 2017 London Football Awards
Sport News 24/7 By Dan Betts from The Hot Stepanvos Tottenham starlet Dele Alli and Chelsea are well placed to clean up at the 2017 London Football Awards. After his spectacular breakthrough last season, the 20 year old has continued to fire his team into Premier League contention, bagging 11 goals in just 21 games. Alli’s marvellous form has seen him not only nominated in the Young Player of the Year award, which he won last year, but also for...
Six Nations, Billy Vunipola’s big heart and poor man management
Sport News 24/7 Episode 21: Bit serious, bit trucky TheLondonEconomic.com Sport brings you Flats and Shanks latest Rugby podcast. If you love rugby, sport or just changing room japes, you'll love this... This week the lads talk about Billy Vunipola's big heart, poor man management, and the Six Nations. http://rss.acast.com/flatsandshanks/episode21-bitserious-bittrucky/media.mp3 David Flatman and Tom Shanklin are two former professional rugby players. Having been flatmates while playing at Saracens, their friendship endured, and now they’d like to share with you bunches of...
FA Cup consumed by its own magic
Sport News 24/7 Was the Fourth Round a classic in the annals of FA Cup history? Two non-league sides made it into the Fifth Round hat for the first time this century and lower league sides were toppling their supposed superiors across the board. Magic of the Cup, innit? Not is all as it seems. Mostly owing to the fixture layout, the Fourth Round was also witness to sides making sweeping changes to their usual starting XIs. There are bigger...
“Rejects FC” – Football team set up for children with disabilities turned away by other clubs
Sport News 24/7 A couple have set up a football team for children with special needs and disabilities who have been turned away from other clubs – called REJECTS FC. Jay Dooley, 43, and wife Tracy, 34, set up the side after getting sick of seeing their 10-year-old son Harrison never being picked for his school squad. The footy-mad youngster was born with a hole in his heart and a blood disorder which means he is increasingly tired as his...
Claudio Ranieri receives honorary degree from De Montfort University
Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has bagged himself another title - this time as Doctor of Arts after receiving an honorary university degree. The 65-year-old accepted the accolade from De Montfort University in Leicester for his Premier League winning achievement with the Foxes. In front of an audience of hundreds of fellow graduates The Tinkerman - wearing a cap and orange gown - collected his degree yesterday afternoon (Wed). After receiving a standing ovation, he told the ceremony: "I thank...
Britain’s next F1 superstar?
Hear the term ‘teenage driver’ and the first things that pop into your head are quite possibly a ‘Nissan Micra’ and ‘sky high insurance premiums’, but one 18 year old from Bishops Stortford is demonstrating that a lack of years is no barrier to driving talent. Not only is Callum Ilott’s tender age belying his success as a multiple karting champion but, unlike so many other drivers in motorsport whose fathers also competed, Ilott’s unorthodox journey didn’t start with watching...
BT hikes its prices as its Premier League gamble bites
Given the amount of money BT invested in securing live sports rights it all seemed a little too good to be true that it could offer the privilege of viewing it effectively for free. Signing up for BT's competitively priced broadband package would give you access to Premier League games, the Champions League and a plethora of other live sports coverage. But as many of us suspected, the offer was too good to be true. BT has today announced sweeping...