As I reviewed parts 1 and 2, it became clear to me that while I was zeroing in on the envelope for USA Team Handball recruiting, that I had neglected to define what recruiting means in the first place. So stepping back a bit here’s the Merriam-Webster Definition: Link to find suitable people and get […]...
1) Laser pointers target Korean penalty shot takers. During yesterday’s match between Serbia and South Korea, laser pointers were used to distract Korean shooters. No word yet as to repercussions and actions planned to prevent it from happening in Wednesday’s quarterfinal match. VG Sporten: Link 2) Brazil secures extra slot for Pan American Federation for […]...
There are many famous football teams in Argentina, for instance River Plate, Racing, Velez Sarsfield and, of course, Boca Juniors. The latter is obviously ‘my’ team, considering that they play in blue and yellow, moreover having once picked those colors from the flag of a Swedish ship entering the harbor of Buenos Aires. But in […]...
The dust has now settled after the complex and somewhat controversial election process which led to Thomas Bach of Germany taking over as new President of the International Olympic Committee three months ago. Observers of the Olympic movement are now instead paying attention to every word and every action by Bach, trying to interpret what […]...
Before the start of the event, I admitted to John Ryan that I was not inspired by the task of offering a prediction of the outcome of the preliminary round. I felt sure that I knew which teams would advance to the ’round of 16′, which teams would be playing for positions 17-20 and which […]...
The New York City Team Handball Club is hosting its fifth annual Big Apple Tournament in New York City from 28-29 December at the Riverbank State Park. New York City Team Handball Club Bini Mustafa and I discuss the upcoming tournament, its evolution from modest beginnings and its potential future. We also talk about the […]...
In celebration of GD playing Ruislip in the Copper Box one year on from the Olympics, this post shows a very brief report of the first game played by the GLSE Select team on Saturday 30 May 1981. The team took on a visiting Swiss police team and went down by 34-17. The team line up shows four players from Ruislip Eagles and three from Great Dane. The report appeared in the first edition of the GLSE...
Today is the school national finals for handball and one team taking part with a long tradition is the Cardinal Griffin School in Cannock. This photograph shows a press photograph from the under 15 final in 1982 when Cardinal Griffin defeated Woughton Campus 18-11. The school, which has had a long association with the local club Olympia, were so strong back in the early 1980s that they finished...
This photo by Arthur Kinloch appeared in the Glasgow Herald on 11 December 1979. It shows Billy Hayburn (centre with the ball), who then played for Allander and Scotland U21, and two unnamed defenders. Billy Hayburn ...
This photograph appeared in the Hull Daily Mail along with a short interview with Ron Lister. It shows the presentations at the Hull Handball Association Dance in the early '60s which was held at the Beverley Baths. In the interview Mr Lister explained that football referees had been recruited to learn the rules of handball and officiate in the league which took place over the summer. It was felt...
Sarah Crompton: Handball was a highlight of the Games, but while its grass roots are nurtured its elite has been cut adrift. ...
This is a short report from the Glasgow Herald of Monday 6 May 1985 about the Scotland versus England Handball internationals which had taken place on the weekend before. ...
This post is a short report from a match played 30 years ago between the Salford Ladies Handball Team and the Ruislip Ladies Handball Team who were known at the time by the sponsor name of Robert Jenkins Systems Handball. The report is from a London Association newsletter hence the lack of mention of the Salford players. The game was a National League fixture which threw off at 4.30pm. The teams were...
Graphite (Ruislip) Eagles Club badge from the 70s The club website states the following: Ruislip Eagles Handball Club was formed in 1970 when they were based in the old South Ruislip Leisure centre. The Club have previously been known as Graphite Eagles (when sponsored by Graphite Equipment Ltd) and Robert Jenkins (Graphite were acquired by Robert Jenkins Systems and the name changed as a result...
Influential figures from GB Basketball, handball, wrestling and table tennis speak out in anger at UK Sport over Games funding. ...
Four Olympic sports have their funding cut after their failure to challenge for medals in London 2012. ...
As previously reported in Part 2 Crawford Sports were the Hull handball league champions in 1961. This photograph taken from the Hull Daily Mail shows the Crawford team lined up as follows: back row Roy Marshall, George Gardiner, Ray Riley, George Nesfield, Ray Sissons and Barry Fuller ; f ront row Syd Cowan, Col Raper, George Pougher, Ronnie Bray and Terry O'Neill. The team took the name of...
Legacies of the Olympics' and Thursday is going to be the first occasion on which the club meets to train. It was reported on the BBC earlier today that this was Coventry's first ever club but records show that a club going by the name of Coventry made a brief appearance in organised leagues around 30 years ago. The main source of information comes from the Midland Handball Association's handbook published...
Hull was not only the location of the first handball league in Britain; it was also where the first ever Great Britain representative team played. The status of this representation is not clear; on the one hand there was no official Handball Association but on the other hand the Hull league was recognized by the IHF. It is reported by the Hull Daily Mail that Great Britain played Holland...
Sir Clive Woodward recently tweeted that handball is the ideal second sport for football and rugby teams. Well the truth is that for a few years around 50 years ago it was ... in Hull. In an article published in the Hull Daily Mail on 31 March 2003 a former player, Syd Cowan reflected on the years that Hull had had its own handball league, made a point of the variety of sports represented. Syd himself...