Author: Emma Horrell Handball. A word that makes most people think of a foul in football. Until recently, few people in the UK had seen or played a game of handball. […]
SPOTY – The Contenders
The shortlist for this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year was unveiled on Monday, with Olympic and Paralympic medallists dominating the line-up. Of the 12 athletes, Rory McIlroy is the only one not to […]
The return of the 'wheeler dealer'
Harry Redknapp often gives the impression that things just happen to him. In 2010, the story goes, the then Tottenham Hotspur manager took a deadline day call from the chairman. Daniel Levy had bought him […]
Gatland’s lame lions
An autumn that beckoned so much hope for the British Isles’ rugby playing nations, one that was meant to dispel the doubters about the gulf in class between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, […]
Big Debate: Protest Without Progress
The recent NUS demo in London failed to attract a crowd anything like that of the 2010 march against the rise in tuition fees. Big Debate asks, was Demo 2012 a waste of time? […]
Gary Speed: One Year On
This time last year I found myself hurting at the loss of someone I never had the pleasure of meeting. This may seem extreme, but I’ll try explain it to the best of my ability. […]
Arsenal await Bantamweight clash
LS Sport’s Joseph Begaj previews the upcoming Bradford City vs Arsenal game in the League Cup. The Fifth Round of the League Cup kicks off on Tuesday December 11 and two local […]
Three is the magic number for Vettel
LS Sport’s Sam Heath takes a close look at the F1 Season and Sebastian Vettel third World Title. The 2012 Formula 1 World Championship went down to the wire in Brazil at the […]
Books: New Review: The Twitter Diaries by Georgie Thompson and Imogen Lloyd Webber
I really, really like twitter. Haters, celebrity obsessives and angsty teenagers aside, there are some absolute geniuses pumping out little nuggets of comedy gold almost 24 hours a day. Some of the greatest examples […]
Theatre | Interview with Ole Brekke, Co-Founder of Copenhagen's Commedia School
“Watching students discover their own ecstatic joy of playing is the key ingredient of my life” With a flux of Nordic noir drama, Ben Meagher, a third-year art-history student spending the year in Copenhagen, […]
Books: Literary Fantasy: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
With the anticipated arrival of The Hobbit to cinema screens, Leeds Student delves into the modern world of literary fantasy and A Game Of Thrones. A Game Of Thrones, the first epic novel in […]
The Cookbook Review: Exploring China by Ken Hom and Ching-He Huang
I am not a proficient cook. It is with this thought that I discover that Ken Hom is not just some young upstart attempting to break into the British cookery scene with his Chinese […]