When Dawdon pit pond was Olympic training pool

11:46am Friday 11th July 2008

JUST over three weeks now until Britain's Olympic water babies take the plunge in Beijing - every last ripple broadcast to the world, every stroke splendidly sponsored.

Gray earns his county colours

9:10am Tuesday 8th July 2008

NORMAN Gray is the complete county cricketer, though the closest he's come to the colours may have been representing Huntingdonshire Over 50s.

The vicar of Wimbledon

9:05am Friday 4th July 2008

Oh enter then his gates with praise; Approach with joy his courts unto. TO begin at the conclusion, the answer to Tuesday's question was that John Hartley, Wimbledon winner in 1879 and 1880, was a Church of England priest - for 45 years vicar of Burneston, near Bedale.

Backtrack

6:04am Tuesday 1st July 2008

ECB follow NYSD's yellow cric code

When Bede ruled the bawd game

9:31am Friday 27th June 2008

EXACTLY fifty years after the Bede College rugby team carried all before it (except, of course, when passing) we have been talking to team captain Tony Coia about oval office and much else.

Cockerton’s Cowan joins 1000 club

9:04am Tuesday 24th June 2008

RICHARD COWAN, 1,000 not out, is celebrating a remarkable milestone with the only cricket team he's ever represented - or ever wanted to.

An annual dose of high Fever

10:03am Friday 13th June 2008

THE annual outing to the Feversham Cricket League has become a sort of journalistic Sunday School treat - keenly anticipated, vividly and indelibly remembered and, almost always, damp.

It’s time to shake on it . . .

7:36am Tuesday 10th June 2008

PRESIDENTS of the United States presumably having rather less with which to get to grips in those days, Theodore Roosevelt completed 8,513 handshakes in an eight-hour White House session in 1907.

No fairytale ending in the Gretna story

10:09am Friday 6th June 2008

A BITTER end to the Rob Roy of the Rovers story, Gretna FC folded this week after its Raydale Park ground was put up for sale by the administrator.

Pearson sending Yanks potty

9:20am Tuesday 3rd June 2008

BACK from holiday at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Ian Wilkinson in Darlington recounts a chance encounter pot luck, it might be said, with Dave Pearson, the world pool trick shot champ. He'd actually gone to see a band called Hootie and the Blowfish, but that's a different note entirely.

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