Monthly Archives: October 2016

In the big money business of lies

Sports doesn’t care about it and Wada doesn’t want to fix but as TUEs continue on as the latest scourge and the latest deceipt, we are expected to keep buying the bullshit, writes Ewan MacKenna Across the leaks, there have now been 127 athletes caught up in having their Thereputic Use Exemptions made public. Almost none […]

Team Sky’s the latest limit

  The treatment of their own sport by key players is bad, but not nearly as appalling as how cycling views the rest of us, expecting them to buy whatever crap they are selling, writes Ewan MacKenna ‘Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know, I was blind but […]

Knocked clean out by their own

Irish boxing was the envy of the world not so long ago; now however it’s in complete freefall thanks to the ego, actions and ability of those that continue to run it, writes Ewan MacKenna With a fortnight to go before they headed for Brazil, an old friend of theirs decided he’d pay the boxing […]