By Paul Radford For a number of years in the 1990s, I covered the activities of FIFA for Reuters and interviewed the then general secretary Sepp Blatter on a number of occasions. From a journalist’s point of view, he was an excellent interviewee, always affable and...
I can vividly remember the day, more than a quarter of a century ago now, when I felt my job as sports reporter had transformed into fiction writer. U.S. agents carry boxes of evidence from the headquarters of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean...
By John Mehaffey Just when professional boxing is slipping into what many feel would be well-deserved oblivion, a prize fight combining elements that make the sport both compelling and repellent will be staged this week in Las Vegas. The gambling center of the world...
By John Mehaffey Guessing the identify of the athlete selected to light the stadium flame at the Olympic opening ceremony is an absorbing but mostly futile exercise serving mainly as a pleasant diversion in the buildup to the Games for those privileged to cover the...