Archives for December 2011

The title “Video of the Year” is often a euphemism for one of two things: 1) extreme sportsmen or -women doing outrageous stunts that defy belief (and sanity), or 2) people doing ordinary things, like mountain-biking, before some extra-ordinary event turns them into YouTube sensations. Both the above categories are catered for in the collection […]

The best sports comeback of 2011 The third of our 2011 Awards is for the best comeback of the year.  We’ll do this one in reverse order – winner first, and then a list of “honorable mentions”. South Africa vs Australia, IRB Sevens World Series, Edinburgh I admit, I am unashamedly biased on this one, […]

Let’s jump right to it – sport tends to create heroes and villains, hence its appeal (or part of it).  But we’re less interested in the parochial rivalries and specific players who fans love to hate simply because of rivalries (though we are not immune to these, of course), and more in the management of […]

Thank you all for your suggestions/nominations for the Science of Sport awards. I’m really glad I asked, because I’d completely overlooked some of the suggestions you made. I’d have felt foolish leaving them out! There was, as expected, quite a lot of overlap, but some “fringe” nominations as well, which is great because it is […]

2011 is winding its way down, or, as the case may be, plummeting to its death, which leaves us just enough time to wrap up 2011 with a look back on the year to hand out our now annual Science of Sport awards for 2011. So I’m inviting your nominations for the following categories, in no particular […]