A thought-provoking experience on Wednesday when, for work purposes, I am required to attend a motorsports event. Without going into too much detail, it’s not a race, but a sponsors’ event, even though it does involve taking cars out on track. However, even though there’s no racing happening, everyone present has so much invested in the occasion that it’s almost painful.

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What I’m reading online today – if you like what you see, add me to your Delicious network…

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It is a truism that every political career must necessarily end in failure. But is the same true of sport, or are its practitioners better-equipped to bow out gracefully, to know when the end has come and when refusal to accept that means nothing but humiliation and defeat?

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Botheration’s Quote of the Week cuts through smug anti-intellectualism to a stark nugget of truth about the condition of English cricket…

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