BritishSports.com are pleased to announce the launch of the Heroes of Sport website: www.heroesofsport.com.
The aim of BritishSports.com is to bring you the best value sports books you’ll find on the web. The website offers free delivery within the U.K. and are confident they will not be beaten on price!
The focus of the website is on a core range of the latest books, be they football, rugby, London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics together with other popular sports titles.
To receive details of the latest publications, special offers etc you can:
To celebrate the launch of the Heroes of Sport website Buzzin Media & SportMatters Group are offering 3 Olympic books to one lucky winner.
Olympic & World Records 2012
The Greatest British Olympians & Paralympians
A Team GB children’s colouring book
To enter our Free 2012 Olympic Games BooksCompetition simply answer the following question:
Where was the 2008 Summer Olympic Games held?
PLEASE NOTE: THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED
Send your entries to comps@buzzinmedia.co.uk with ‘2012 Olympic Games Books’ in the subject line (any other subject title will be not be entered) with your answer and your full address and contact telephone number.
This Buzzin Sports competition ends on 6th December, 2011. The editor will randomly choose one lucky winner.
In the second of a series of interactive videos from Oakley, one of the leading sports brands in the world, the current US Open golf champion, budding golfers can go head-to-head over 18 holes at the prestigious British golf course, Wentworth Golf Club with the current US Open champion, Rory McIlroy.
The video is the second in Oakley’s You Vs. series – the first gave cyclists the opportunity to ride against the UK’s Tour de France sprint king, Mark Cavendish.
Through a series of questions, you can test your golf course management and decision-making skills against one of the most exciting young talents in the world of golf right now. The questions are to seek out the level of your knowledge on what clubs to use, where best to place your shots and amazingly, your answers will affect the outcome of the video. The video itself is shot in a realistic point-of-view style.
Taking part in the game is fun enough, but by doing so you can enter Oakley’s exclusive competition too, simply by ‘liking’ the Oakley Facebook page. And if you are so good that you manage to beat Rory McIlroy over 18 holes, then you have the chance to be selected as the lucky winner who gets to meet Rory and have the honour of caddying for him, walking around the Wentworth golf course.
Firstly, Like the page, select some Oakley sunglasses to wear, and then start exercising your golf expertise for a chance to win a prize any golf-fan would go crazy for!
With the opening of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games less than a year away, Routledge is pleased to announce the launch of a website showcasing scholarly research on Olympic and Paralympic Studies.
Routledge Online Studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games (ROSO) has launched in beta today, and is a unique learning resource aimed at academics, students, lecturers, researchers, athletes, coaches, journalists, policy-makers and anyone interested in the Games.
Containing over 1,000 published book chapters and articles, blogs, reading lists, case studies and interviews with Olympic and Paralympic experts and athletes including Dame Kelly Holmes, ROSO will release over 40 new journal special issues and several new books devoted to the Games. The site will be regularly updated with new content as it publishes and a selection of material will be made free to access.
ROSO’s Managing Editor, Dr Vassil Girginov of Brunel University, UK, has assigned a theme to every book chapter and article, allowing the user to search their area of interest. ROSO themes include: the media, education, gender, politics, history, governance, management, law, business, ethics, legacies, the environment, athletic performance, security and disability sport.
Dr Vassil Girginov, Managing Editor of ROSO, comments:
“This new interactive research and teaching platform represents a new phase in the global development of Olympic studies and naturally builds on a century-long tradition and the contributions of a myriad of scholars from all over the world. For the first time in history, a leading academic publisher that is Routledge has committed to specifically promote studies in Olympism in a truly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary way. We invite you to browse, explore, comment, share and contribute to the Platform. Enjoy your Olympic explorations with Routledge Online Studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games.”
Routledge publishes hundreds of journals and thousands of new books each year, from offices all over the world. Our current publishing programme encompasses the liveliest texts, and the best in research, with over 35,000 books in print.
Routledge has the largest and most comprehensive publishing programme in Sport and Leisure Studies. Our journals and books cover the full breadth of the discipline, including: sport science, sport medicine, physical education, sport coaching, sport management, sport development, sport technology and engineering, research methods in sport, and the history, politics, sociology and philosophy of sport.
Routledge has been publishing research on Olympic and Paralympic Studies for over 40 years. For more information visit www.routledgeonlinestudies.com.
Yesterday Andy Murray beat David Ferrer 7-5 6-4 to retain the Shanghai Masters. Murray finished 2011 in fine form winning three consecutive tournaments; and in doing so replaced Roger Federer as #3 in the men’s tennis world rankings today.
The Shanghai Masters was Murray’s fifth title of 2011.
This is the first time since 2003 that Roger Federer has not been ranked in the top 3. Following his victory Andy Murray said,
“For a lot of years everything went very right for Federer. He’s had a few tournaments this year where maybe things could have gone his way and they didn’t but I’m sure next year he’ll be competing. He’s still playing great tennis.”
10 years ago, just days before planes crashed into New York’s twin towers, Lleyton Hewitt won the Men’s US Open Tennis Championship. Yesterday, amidst 10th anniversary remembrance services across the United States, fellow Australian Sam Stosur won the Women’s US Open against Serena Williams in front of a very patriotic crowd to win her first Grand Slam title.
The final was marred when Serena Williams was given a warning by umpire Eva Asderaki when she shouted “come on!” immediately after hitting what would have been a saved break point and before Sam Stosur had chance to play her shot. What followed was a verbal assault by Williams in which she said to the umpire “You’re out of control. You’re a hater, and you’re just unattractive inside.”
The crowd booed the decision and in a further show of bad sportsmanship, a majority of the crowd began to leave before Stosur had chance to complete a lap of honour.
Serena Williams will find out today if she is to receive a fine. This latest outburst follows a two-year probation following a similar outburst at the 2009 US Open.
All the pundits had unanimously thought Serena Williams would win her 14th Grand Slam but Australian Sam Stosur completely outplayed the American favourite and won the match comfortably, 6-2 6-3.
Tonight sees Novak Djokovic take on Rafa Nadal in the Men’s US Open final.
