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Across the Pondcast: Episode 4 — Super Bowl LIII Preview with Darren Barnard & Jack Nevill

by Darren Barnard - 31 January 201931 January 2019 0388

Jack and Darren preview Super Bowl LII with the help of some of their Sports Gazette colleagues — Rob Clayden, Rob Sutton and Thomas Kaiser. They also breakdown the NFL end of season awards ahead of the announcement of each award on Saturday night. Listen to the podcast here: https://soundcloud.com/user-564791869/across-the-pondcast-superbowl-preview Darren’s Bio: Darren

Across the Pondcast: Episode 3 — Championship Weekend Preview with Darren Barnard & Jack Nevill

by Darren Barnard - 18 January 201918 January 2019 0259

This week, Jack and Darren play fair or unfair with all the coaching hires across the eight available openings in the NFL. We also recap our beer pressures from divisional weekend and see how our playoff picks are holding up. Then, of course preview the two championship games on

Across the Pondcast: Episode 2 — Divisional Weekend Preview with Darren Barnard & Jack Nevill

by Darren Barnard - 12 January 201912 January 2019 0231

This week, Jack and Darren play another round of fair or unfair - debating the picks for the All-Pro team. We recap our wagers from wildcard weekend and introduce an innovative new name for our wagers! Following that, we preview the divisional weekend match-ups and mourn the inevitable death of

Across the Pondcast: Episode 1 – Wildcard Weekend Preview with Darren Barnard & Jack Nevill

by Darren Barnard - 4 January 20194 January 2019 0370

The first of a weekly podcast covering all the latest news in American Football, based across the pond in the UK. This week, Jack and Darren explore the recent coach departures in the NFL with Black Monday passing us after Week 17. We attempt to rank the eight coaching positions

The year in sport 2018: NBA

by Thomas Kaiser - 30 December 201830 December 2018 0284

The Golden State Warriors won their third title in four years in 2018, but if the Houston Rockets had not missed 27 straight three pointers in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals, or if JR Smith knew the score in the final seconds of Game 1 of the NBA

The year in sport 2018: Major League Baseball

by Rachael Mathewson - 27 December 201826 December 2018 0189

It has been a year of emotions and milestones for Major League Baseball, so let's take a look at what happened between Spring Training and the 2018 World Series. Retired Jerseys In August, Barry Bonds' number 25 jersey was retired in AT&T Park. The left-fielder for the San Francisco Giants is

The year in sport 2018: NFL

by Jack Nevill - 26 December 201826 December 2018 0245

The NFL in 2018 came out swinging with a thrilling set of playoff games, culminating with the Nick Foles-led Philadelphia Eagles delivering the first Super Bowl to the City of Brotherly Love in a 41-33 win over the New England Patriots. The stage was set. New super teams formed, like the

Top 5 NFL Snow Games

by Jack Nevill - 23 December 201824 December 2018 0366

It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, a snow game in the NFL is a joy to watch. Game plans go out of the window and finesse is replaced by brute force and, often, calamity. As people around the world wish for a white Christmas, lets take a look at the

Knicks vs Pistons 2006 — A Christmas Miracle?

by Thomas Kaiser - 21 December 201827 February 2019 01127

Ties are uncommon in American Sports. Now, of course they happen in the NHL, or at times in the NFL — such as the exhilarating Cleveland Browns vs Pittsburgh Steelers earlier this season — but most tied games will have a winner by the end of overtime. Though it can

What to expect from sport in 2019

by Peter White - 20 December 201819 December 2018 0372

As the dust settles on 2018, it would be easy to sit back and reflect on another amazing year of sport. With the FIFA World Cup, the Commonwealth Games, the Ryder Cup and all of the annual events too, there was certainly plenty to celebrate. Even if it didn’t quite