Sports Poets Society

Mai stati così vicini in tutta la loro lunga carriera italiana, Ranieri e Guidolin. La Italian Connection ha funzionato a distanza, e come er Sor Claudio capolista mai nemmeno avrebbe sognato. Dopo il mezzo passo falso del suo Leicester City col West Brom nell'anticipo, sarà sobbalzato più volte: per i tre legni dell'Arsenal e i due gol non proprio regolarissimi dello Swansea, che Guidolin ha dovuto seguire da una clinica londinese per una infezione polmonare. Al suo posto, in panchina è andato una leggenda degli Swansea, Alan Curtis, uno che sa bene che cosa significhi star fuori per infortunio. Come non bastasse, il Tottenham - la squadra più in forma della Premier come ben sa la Fiorentina - è inciampata all'Upton Park contro il West Ham. E così il North London Derby di sabato sarà - comunque vada - una mezza festa per il Leicester. Che anziché due punti persi, in questa pazza 28esima di Premier ne ha guadagnato uno su Gunners e Spurs e pure Man City,irriconoscivile a...

On March 19, 1966, Texas Western College defeats the University of Kentucky in the NCAA men’s college basketball final at Cole Field House in College Park, Maryland. This marked the first time an all-black starting five had won the NCAA championship. The top-ranked University of Kentucky men’s basketball team was favored in the final over the third-ranked Miners. Adolph Rupp, Kentucky’s coach from 1930 to 1972, recruited almost exclusively inside Kentucky, earning the nickname “The Baron of Bluegrass.” Like many other coaches of the time, Rupp neither recruited nor played African-American players. Using exclusively white players, Rupp eventually established the most successful coaching career in college history: He had four national championships to his credit, one NIT title and was on his way to 876 wins, a record number upon his retirement in 1972. Texas Western, now the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), had been led by Coach Don Haskins since 1961. Haskins, who inherited an in...

http://www.rondevanvlaanderen.be/en/elite-men/history/heroes Tom Boonen In the spring of 2005, a lot of people wondered whether the young Tom Boonen would be able to stay the distance. 260 kilometres. That’s not quite the same as the semi-classics that he won in 2004 such as the E3-Prijs, the Scheldeprijs and Gent-Wevelgem. "Tornado Tom" gave all the critics a run for their money by securing a place in the lead group of six racers in the finish alongside big names such as Klier, Van Petegem and Zabel. Nine kilometres from the finish Boonen even caught up with Van Petegem, who was giving everything for his third victory in the race. Boonen didn’t wait for the final moment, but made an audacious solo attack. The others hesitated for a fraction of a second, but the bird had flown. At the age of just 24, Boonen won his first Tour of Flanders; it was the start of a dream year. One week later he turned it into a double win with his Paris –Roubaix victory, later that year he also ...