As part of our post Derby-Day special our writers have taken a look at some of the defining sports from the fixture. [su_tabs vertical=”yes”][su_tab title=”Dance – Tom Gordon”] Three wins each as Dance ends in draw At 17:00, as Derby Day began to draw to a close, the Esx dance theatre was begining to fill…
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UEA Hosts national day-long dance competition – Sophie Whiteside
UEA DanceSport hosted their annual day-long dance competition here at UEA in the SportsPark on Saturday 30th January 2016, at 10 o’clock. Competitors from universities including Cambridge, Warwick, Nottingham, Leicester, Southampton, Kent and London arrived on campus to dance in a variety of ballroom and Latin styles. It has been a massive success in previous…
Sport
Drugs & matchfixing: is there something rotten in the state of eSports?
For many of those who can often be found with their faces planted firmly in the back pages of their preferred paper, the term eSports is more likely to elicit snorts of incredulity than intrigue. Although I personally see the term as a misnomer that has done the field more harm than good, whether the…
Sport
Hiddink’s revival at expense of club legend
In typically unpredictable Premier League terms, when a mere matter of weeks can see the table upend itself, it seems an age since Chelsea’s erstwhile Iberian gaffer proclaimed that were the West London contingent to fire him they would “sack the best manager this club had”. Yet after two months and all the flux it…
Sport
Chelsea labour to narrow 1-0 win over Norwich
Perhaps for the Chelsea of last year, this would have been one of those games. The type of “gritty” and “determined” game that has the Graeme Souness’s and Glenn Hoddle’s of the world declaiming this is the sort of game potential champions have to grind out if they wish to earn a title. However, this…
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Global review of the year 2015
As it’s our last issue of the year, Global is taking a look back at 2015. Reporting by Caitlin Doherty, Grace Fothergill, Lillie Coles, Sophie Atherton, Meg Bradbury and Tom Gordon. [su_tabs vertical=”yes”][su_tab title=”January”] 7th January – Charlie Hebdo attacks Saïd and Chérif Kouachi broke into the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, and killed 11…
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Priced out of sport: the cost of participation at UEA
The Union of UEA Students (UUEAS) has released a report condemning the cost of participating in sports societies at UEA. The report highlights, that the cost of Sports Association Membership (Sam), which is set by the union itself, is largely responsible for the high cost. However, UUEAS has blamed the financial barrier on poor funding…
Sport
UEA men’s football seconds XI lose in dying moments
The first home Bucs game of the year for UEA men’s second XI football team was not one any player will look back on with relish. The day got off to an inauspicious start, as seemingly interminable delays pushed kick off back by 40 minutes. The cause of the delay was the fact there was…
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Archery’s Beiter tournament a hit, not a miss
UEA was a part of archery history on 18th October as it hosted the Beiter Hit-Miss tournament, the first of its kind to be held. The usual concept of archery involves the famous white, black, blue, red and yellow colour scheme on a target with increasing point values the closer an arrow lands to the…
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