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South Africa's wily ways are more of a let-down than a wind-up | Emma John

Attempts by the South African coach, Mickey Arthur, to wind up his England counterpart Andy Flower have failed. Photograph: Gallo Images/Getty Images It must be frustrating for Graeme Smith and Mickey Arthur. Their normal whipping boy, Kevin Pietersen, ...

From EMMA JOHN, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Andy Flower,  Graeme Smith,  Kevin Pietersen,  Ethel Rosenberg,  Andrew Strauss

Most stylish man: Phillips Idowu

Phillips Idowu photographed at Peter and Tony?s, London N1, in October 2009. Photograph: Suki Dhanda What time did you get in last night, then?" Tony the barber asks the 6ft 5in triple-jump world champion sitting in his chair. Phillips Idowu smiles. ...

From EMMA JOHN, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jonathan Edwards,  BBC

Rugby catches on to celebrity union | Emma John

Danny Cipriani's relationship with Kelly Brook would have seemed implausible when rugby union was an amateur sport. Photograph: Rex Features For those of us who were following the Chris Evert-Greg Norman relationship, there has been a suspicion for ...

From EMMA JOHN, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Kelly Brook,  Greg Norman,  Gavin Henson,  Martin Johnson,  Kevin Pietersen

Get Her off the Pitch by Lynne Truss

I was only a few months into sports journalism when I discovered how ruthless it could be. Another greenhorn, who was possibly too terrified to ask for help, had kept his stories up to date by sneaking looks at his colleagues' laptops. Incensed, ...

From EMMA JOHN, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Sep 2009
Related Topics: David Beckham,  Lennox Lewis,  Andre Agassi,  Chesterfield FC,  Evander Holyfield

Emma John on the Dallas Cowboys' 'Jerrytron'

John Terry on a big screen at Wembley during the national anthem at England v Slovakia. Photograph: Tom Jenkins If you want to know where sport is headed, tune in to the NFL late on Sunday night when the Dallas Cowboys play their first home game of the ...

From EMMA JOHN, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Dallas Cowboys,  NFL,  John Terry,  Jerry Jones,  Mitsubishi

Classic car tour of France

The picturesque roads of rural France are even more enticing when experienced from behind the wheel of a car as cute as the MGB Roadster Photograph: PR Marisa and I knew what we wanted from a French road trip – old-fashioned style. Sadly, both being on ...

From EMMA JOHN, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Alfred Hitchcock,  Grace Kelly,  Cary Grant,  Audrey Hepburn,  In Style

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg | Book review

If you think that the best response to religious extremism is to laugh at it, then James Hogg's most famous work, published in 1824, demands your full attention. A tale of demonic possession, it is also a caustic comedy, skewering the religious bigotry ...

From EMMA JOHN, Guardian Unlimited,  29 Aug 2009
Related Topics: James Hogg

New Bedford man held in double killing

NEW BEDFORD - A broken relationship ended with a double killing in plain view of residents at a housing project on the South Coast on Friday night, authorities said. Police have charged 60-year-old Elvin E. Valentin with murder in the shooting deaths ...

From JOHN M. GUILFOIL AND EMMA ROSE JOHNSON, Boston Globe,  15 Aug 2009

20th Century Fashion edited by Jim Heimann and Alison A Nieder | Book review

Some things only really make sense in their time and fashion is one of them. That is possibly the only explanation for why the bunch of guys in this 1960s advert for a Bobbie Brooks sports outfit are wielding baseball bats and what look like rolled-up ...

From EMMA JOHN, Guardian Unlimited,  15 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Calvin Klein

What happened next

Twelve months ago, we were a nation transfixed. We knew that the Beijing Olympics would be the greatest show on earth: we had never guessed that Britain would play such a starring role. From the moment that Nicole Cooke crossed the line in the women's ...

From EMMA JOHN, Guardian Unlimited,  25 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Chris Hoy,  Boris Johnson,  Nicole Cooke,  Wilma Rudolph,  Bradley Wiggins

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