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As good as any feeling I had in football': Nigel Martyn on swapping goalkeeping for a red England cricket cap

A goalkeeper’s career spans elite football, but a decisive cricket six in near-darkness remains the most vivid personal thrill.

fromWashingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.

2 months ago

John Thompson III on a Basketball Season's Memorable Ending

It was my first year as a head coach, the 2000-2001 season. I'm the coach at Princeton University. Preseason, we were picked to finish seventh in an eight-team league-so next to last in the Ivy League. We'd lost our coach, we'd lost our top players to transfer, one player [Chris Young, now president of the Texas Rangers] was no longer eligible to play because he was drafted in baseball. We weren't expected to be good.

Boston Celtics

Toronto Raptors

fromBluebird Banter

10 months ago

Happy Birthday Dave Stieb

Dave Stiebs holds all-time Blue Jays records for wins, innings pitched, and strikeouts, with unmatched complete games.

Toronto Raptors

fromBluebird Banter

10 months ago

Favourite Blue Jays All-Star Memories: Dave Stieb, Damaso Garcia and Afredo Griffin?

Three players from the team were named to the All-Star team in 1984, marking a milestone in franchise history.

fromIndependent

11 months ago

Karl Henry: 'I remember hallucinating coming down the mountains in Waterford at about 4am. Seeing ghosts and animals and things that weren't there!'

My earliest memories of playing sports are from school. When I was eight years old, I had just joined a new school, St Michael's College in Ballsbridge... I remember getting picked for one of the teams.

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