Doing Business in Beijing

By its very nature, the Olympics is a political event. It begins with a celebration of social inclusion, as was intended by Pierre de Coubertin, the man who founded the Olympic Committee in an attempt to bring peace to the world, with athletes from countries that many of us wouldn't have...

Thursday May 01, 2008

published 5 months ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 5

Beaten to the Punch

Nothing to Ibrag' About One suspects that the only reason referee Don Ackerman didn't penalise Wladimir Klitschko for continuously pawing away Sultan Ibragimov's woefully inept attempts to bring down the "Russian Goliath" was because his experience told him that that was...

Saturday Mar 01, 2008

published 7 months ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 3

We Are the Champions

An Inter-esting Choice The way the tabloids keep churning out quotes from sources and friends around Anfield, it's hard to imagine Rafael Benitez will still be in charge of Liverpool when this article is finished, let alone when it's published. Ignoring the gossip mongering, and assuming...

Tuesday Jan 01, 2008

published 9 months ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 1

New Year Cheer

UFC: Will He Chuck it All Away? There's just no escaping the Ultimate Fighting Championship, perhaps because certain hacks keep bringing the damn thing up, but also because its popularity and media coverage in general continues to increase. Coming up on Dec. 29 from Nevada are two very...

Saturday Dec 01, 2007

published 10 months ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 4, Number 12

Boxing Clever

The question raised in a previous piece on the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) was whether or not boxing is in trouble. Is it truly under threat from the growing force of mixed martial arts? Was the Floyd Mayweather Jr. versus Oscar De La Hoya fight really that important for the future of...

Thursday Nov 01, 2007

published 11 months ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 4, Number 11

Double Top or Nothing

Reigning British Darts Organisation (BDO) World Champion Martin "Wolfie" Adams is taking an admirable stand by refusing his invitation to the upcoming inter-organisational Grand Slam of Darts. "Loyalty is not a dirty word in my vocabulary, and I will not be playing in the Grand...

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