Tag Archives: Sunday Business Post

Bitter pills to swallow

When it comes to doping, soccer has somehow been Teflon despite a history intertwined with drug use and a present of much greater rewards and much greater secrecy, writes Ewan MacKenna Do you believe? In terms of all sports, it’s the alpha and omega of questions right now. Except for one that is, for soccer has become literally […]

The sound and the Fury

  We’ve been made well aware of the heavyweight champion’s abhorrent views but no one questions why he holds them and why we should expect or demand any different, writes Ewan MacKenna. When Sonny Liston was a child his father would pummel him so badly that, decades later, the marks on his skin and bones were […]