Melting Alps: How Climate Change Discourages Skiing
Icy patches, muddy slopes and reduced snow coverage – the tolls climate change has taken on the Alps worsen skiing experience. The white mountains still await the sun’s radiant touch…
Formula 1: Anything But Boring
In a season of 22 races, you’d expect Formula 1 to have multiple Grand Prix victors – well, not in 2023. Max Verstappen, this season’s drivers’ champion, has won 17…
Emma Wilson Talks Going for Gold
To the untrained eye, windsurfing is a rather peculiar watch. Athletes wrestle with their eight-metre sail, harnessing the wind to reach speeds upwards of 40 miles per hour. Races are…
Rizin through the ranks: A Look at two of the UFC’s most exciting signings
With Ultimate Fighting Championship being the first major sport to come back since the outbreak of Coronavirus, I think now’s the best time to look at some new rising stars…
Geordies and Sheikhs, the new footballing powerhouse?
By Charlie Batten It seems that very soon Newcastle United will complete a very controversial £300 million takeover headed by Amanda Staveley and heavily backed by the Public Investment Fund…
Coronavirus in Sports
By Georgia Keetch Dozens of international sport events have been cancelled or postponed around the world amid an outbreak of a new type of coronavirus. The pathogen’s effect has been…
Why you should get involved in darts
By Ben Kofi Darts. A game that is almost ubiquitous in this country. In most towns you’re usually never too far from a pub which has a board and some…
From ‘Flow Kingz’ to Superstar: A New Kid on the Block?
By Jonny Garwood Despite a storied career at Nottingham Forest, Leeds United and Manchester City, and having once been held as an up and coming prospect, in English football, the…
Have Golden State Lost their Warrior Status
By Charlie Batten The Golden State Warriors have been a dominant force in the NBA since the 2014-15 season, but now they find themselves with the worst record in the…
France in Fine Fettle
Prior to the start of the quadrennial tournament this summer, football fans across the world grew sceptical over Russia’s credentials and ability to host the most prestigious tournament in world…
EXCLUSIVE: Sussex head of sport ‘would love to offer’ free access to sports facilities
Sussex University’s head of sport, Karen Creffield, has told The Badger that she would “love to be able to provide” free access to sports facilities to all students. Creffield, who…
Study yourself, not just your subject
A typical student is perceived by the wider world as someone who lives in squalor, eats exclusively 17p instant noodles, and has no discernable interests outside of their academic subject,…
The Sporting Underworld: Initiations
Initiation as a word has been dragged down into the doldrums of the English Language with the bad connotations it has recently acquired. Is their reputation deserved or has media…
The Fun of the Fair
Freshers’ Fair is a different thing to different people. To returning students running the popular sports clubs it seems to be a bit of a chore. To the more obscure…