Cricket With an Outside Edge
Walking through Chicago’s streets late at night guarantees a few assurances. Night owls stopping at corner vendors for a Chicago dog; that all beef frankfurter sprinkled with chopped onions and sweet pickle relish flavored with pickled sport peppers and wrapped in a breathtaking poppy seed bun. Folks are popping into Portillo’s or Lou Malnati’s for…
Donald Bradman is widely regarded as the greatest cricketer of all time, though comparing athletes across eras is always complicated. Just as it’s difficult to fairly compare Babe Ruth to modern baseball players—especially given that Black athletes were excluded from the Major Leagues during his time—it’s hard to measure Bradman against today’s cricketers under vastly…
Indigenous Australians have a deep, complex history with cricket. Their involvement dates back to the 1800s, making cricket one of the first sports in which Aboriginal Australians gained international recognition. In 1868, thirteen Aboriginal men from Victoria became the first Australian team of any kind to tour internationally. They played 47 matches across England, impressing…
The drive from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is fifteen and a half hours long. But it is a perfect trip if you want to stop in Boston and New York City along the way. And, of course, if you’d like to take the trip straight down to Washington, D.C. However, Halifax is in…
In 1896, the Olympic Games made a triumphant return to Athens after an absence of over 1500 years. According to Aristotle, the ancient games officially started in 776 BCE. And they mostly consisted of running events, chariot races, some jumping, tossing a couple of things around, and a little bit of wrestling and boxing. Nero…
The African Nation Shines as Host of T20 Memorial Cricket Tournament In 1994, Rwanda experienced a horrific genocide. Over 800,000 people, mostly Tutsi, were killed in just 100 days. The violence began on April 7, one day after the Rwandan president’s plane was shot down. Hutu extremists blamed the Tutsi and used this event to…
Remembering Jewel | The Forgotten Hero of Bangladesh On August 29, 1971, Abdul Halim Chowdhury Jewel was abducted from his mother’s home in Dhaka. Pakistani soldiers stormed the house late at night. Jewel was a freedom fighter and elite commando in the Crack Platoon. An informant had exposed him after a series of guerrilla attacks…
Jack the Ripper, without question, stands as the most infamous serial killer in history. The grisly tale of the twisted murderer who haunted the fog-choked streets of London in the late 1800s is one we all know. We’ve watched the films and read the books. We are well-versed in the chilling account of the killer…
Postponed a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2022 Asian Games took place from late September to early October 2023 in Hangzhou, China and it excluded the Afghanistan women cricket squad. Recognized as the second largest global athletic competition behind only the Olympics, these games feed into the Olympiads. Occurring every four years like…
The story of 18-year-old professional dominatrix Renee Chignell is a fascinating one. Because let’s cut to the chase, 51-year-old cricket umpire by the name of Peter Plumley-Walker died chained and collared to a wall in her townhouse during a BDSM session. And then, instead of notifying the police, Renee Chignell and her boyfriend at the…
