Highlighting the humanity of punching people
“In a matter-of-fact manner, boxer Kevin Mitchell recalled stories of leading the police (them in meat-wagons and helicopters, him in a smart car) on a high-speed chase across East London and lamented missing out on millions through bad contracts, ending up in a flat with multiple dependents.”
2020: The digisport 'list of lists'
Welcome to my traditional ‘List of Lists’. This is the one where I aggregate and comment upon all those articles looking forward or looking back on the state of sports digital, social media, broadcasting, journalism and other related areas.
Is this the best sports video ever?
Hibs won the Scottish Cup in 2016 for the first time in 114 years with an injury-time header. After the initial madness had subsided, the fans sang, in my opinion, one of the best songs ever heard at a football game. But the song was too slow and the most popular video of the event on YouTube is terrible quality. So why does it work so well and is the video so popular?
While we wait for VAR to come good, let's decide what we REALLY want from our football
VAR makes perfect sense for those who work and play in the game.
It just turns out that those who pay the wages through their television eyeballs, replica shirt purchases and ticket buying, consider it a dampener on their emotional entertainment.
KSIvPaul2: Revenge, redemption and revealing a new boxing market
KSI and Logan Paul are fighting again… and this time it is tactical. Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom may be promoting the bout and world champion boxers could feature on the undercard. Is this experiment an insult to the sweet science or another reason why boxing is well-suited to changing ways that modern digital media can connect with fans?
My social media secret
I have been running a social media account on my team under a pseudonym for a decade. But the morals of online anonymity of have changed. So should I delete, reveal or continue?
I'm a loser baby, but why do you 'kill' me?
Anthony Joshua lost for the first time on Saturday. Johnny Greaves won only four of the 100 fights in his entire career. But we should salute the nobility and humility of the way they handled defeat.
Someone told sports content's biggest lie... again
They did it again, in front of everyone. This time I told them. Told them right to their face. Everything I thought... almost
Sounds like a mistake. Why the BBC's new app is all wrong
We all love the BBC, but the launch of the BBC Sounds App has been ill-conceived and its launch reveals an array of issues surrounding the corporation as the modern media environment rapidly evolves.
A sporting paradise lost? My favourite interview defined his success his own way
Only 12 men achieved his feat and, in all probability, he will be the last. But his sporting motivations were entirely elsewhere. My favourite sporting interviewee is not anyone you would expect. In fact, you have probably no idea who he is
Sunderland Till I Die: Wear and Tears as a struggling club goes OTT
Sunderland opened their doors last season for another of those fly-on-the-wall sports documentary on Netflix. It was compelling viewing but, unfortunately for them, a horror movie on the pitch. Still, with OTTs platforms continuing to invest in sporting narratives, what did we learn from the tears on Wearside?