All blog entries
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Aug
2015Take me out to the ball game
tagged under: baseball, mlb, minor league baseball, experiences, travel, trips
With an upcoming significant birthday, I decided that how I wanted to celebrate was to travel around the US watching minor league baseball.
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23
Sep
2011Chris Stephens: The Pitcher with a Cigar
tagged under: softball, team, chris stephens, obituary, mojo, spam
About a week ago I got an email to tell me that Chris Stephens had died. I have known Chris for almost 20 years, for the majority of which he was the pitcher for SPAM, the softball team I run. First and foremost though, he was a friend.
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20
Sep
2011BSUK Playing Moneyball
tagged under: development, moneyball, value
All governing bodies and development agencies for sport need to demonstrate significant value for money for their participants. For BSUK that means doing what the bigger sports do, only much more efficiently.
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26
Aug
2011BSUK flying the flag
tagged under: bsuk staff, gb baseball, gb softball, national teams
I have often heard the comment that summer must be our busy season. For a long time I have felt it was the opposite—that when the playing season came to a close, the hard work truly began.
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Jun
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May
2011Places People Play
tagged under: development, softball, team, london, regents park
May 11, crack of dawn, I was one of a small gathering of people at Regents Park to mark the launch of ‘Protecting Playing Fields’ a ‘strand’ of Sport England’s Active Places’ strategy.
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Apr
2011New Independent Directors on the BSUK Board
tagged under: bsuk board, anne ibrahim, andy anstey, simon kirkland, independent director
At our Board Meeting in April we were finally in a position to formally add three new Independent Directors to the Board: Anne Ibrahim, Andy Anstey and Simon Kirkland.
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Apr
2011Spring Training provides some clues to MLB season
tagged under: baseball, mlb, spring training, season, mets, yankees
In early March I made a trip to Florida to catch some spring training games, and now, three weeks into the MLB season I thought I’d look at whether the trip gave me any clues to the season ahead.
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Apr
2011BSUK indoor tournament
tagged under: astroseries, home run derby, tournament, indoor softball
After a five year hiatus, BSUK got back in the business of hosting an indoor softball tournament over the weekend of 26-27 March in London.
