What the Premiership learnt from Formula One
Andrew Curry writes: I hope I’m not too late to note a fine article [not currently available on the Guardian's own site] by the Guardian’s Richard Williams on how England’s footballing Premiership...
View ArticleBuying viewers’ attention
Andrew Curry writes: The combination of the FA Cup Final – the last for a while on the BBC – and the epically overhyped Champions’ League final on ITV sent me to some recent interesting data (above)...
View ArticleLearning to be a city
London Freewheel rolls down the Mall Andrew Curry writes: It was European Mobility Week last week, and London marked it with its second ‘Freewheel‘ event on Sunday. Quite a large area of the city...
View ArticleWinning at cycling
Tom Ding writes: At risk of sounding like a Christmas quiz, what do the pictures have in common? Answer: they all relate to the summer success of the British Olympic Cycling Team, marked so...
View ArticleConnecting with cricket
A guest post by Robert Stanier The start of a new cricket season (at least in Britain) seems a good moment to mention one of my surprises of the close season – that Bob Woolmer’s huge book on the “Art...
View ArticleSporting tw**ts
Oliver Wright writes: Humans have always been predisposed to gossip. French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville once said “If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own...
View ArticleThe future of golf
Andrew Curry writes: As The Open Championship hits its stride in Lytham St Annes, I thought I should mention that we’ve just written for HSBC a report on the future of golf. HSBC’s a patron of The...
View ArticleLearning to win
Andrew Curry and Andy Stubbings write: When British Cycling’s Performance Director Dave Brailsford launched the Sky road racing team in 2009 and announced that it would produce a British winner of the...
View ArticleThe world of esports
This is a guest post by Peter Curry. London’s Wembley Arena is best-known as one of the city’s biggest venues for sports and entertainment – it hosted events during the 2012 Olympics, and Bryan Adams...
View ArticleThe Olympics and the future of rugby
Fans among the record crowds at the Canada leg of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series in Vancouver in March. Photo by Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images for HSBC, and used here by courtesy of HSBC. Our report...
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