NFL: Total Access on Sky Sports 3 is a program produced by the NFL Network in collaboration with NFL Films to offer a subscribing public a level of access to NFL teams that rugby fans could only dream about. Training sessions, draft selections, salary cap debate and exclusive video of an in-house draft meeting [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 21, 2009
2009 British and Irish Lions Tour Squad Announced…
A few tight calls in the outside backs and back-row, but overall it is a squad that was selected predominantly on form, although Delon Armitage and Mike Blair might dispute that. Spare a thought for Ryan Jones who plummeted from much-touted captain to Sky analyst in the space of a Six Nations cycle and rejoice [...]
April 18, 2009
Something different…John O’Shea and GOAL.
Fascinating Saturday interview with John O’Shea in the Irish Times. O’Shea is humanitarian, founder and CEO of Goal, an Irish Non-Governmental Aid Agency. A former sports journalist and self-confessed sports fanatic, O’Shea’s pragmatic approach to the political minefield of foreign aid to developing countries is refreshing. GOAL have dispensed over half a billion in disaster [...]
April 16, 2009
2009 Lions Tour: Its coming…
Ian McGeechan picks his 2009 Lions squad on Tuesday. It will probably be a pared down 36 player group, a throwback to the South Africa tour of 1997. The media has generated a huge amount of hype around the captaincy, with the selection being narrowed to Ireland’s Brian O’Driscoll and Paul O’Connell. The Irish Times [...]
