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Student Publication of the Year 2012

Wheel Of Sportune

The Wheel of Sportune is back to run the rule over a weekend jam-packed with sporting achievement and humiliating failure. Who will the hand of fate land on today? Good Weekend Warren Gatland – In a sense, onefeels that the Lions coach would rather Saracens had produced a…

Friday 26th April 2013

University Open Outdoor Nationals Division 2 Report.

The pinnacle of university competition in the UK Ultimate are the Outdoor Nationals, where the qualifying rounds take place at regional tournaments, and where the top three teams qualify for Division 1 and the second 3 for Division 2. By fighting out an eventful draw with eventual regional…

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Thursday 25th April 2013

Samba Style Hits Nottingham at UoN Futsal Tournament

It’s the game that Messi, Robinho and Ronaldinho grew up playing. Fat Ronaldo calls it his “first love”. In Brazil it is played by more people than football. But if you ask most Nottingham students, they wouldn’t recognise futsal. This is something that the UoN Futsal club are…

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Friday 12th April 2013

On the Ropes – Four Cricketers to Watch this Summer.

Start delayed due to snow is what the description should have read. As the County Season got off and running on Friday morning, rain turned to snow down at Hove! Meanwhile, hoodies were worn under whites at Trent Bridge, as the good old British weather made a mockery…

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Wednesday 10th April 2013

Wheel Of Sportune

The Wheel of Sportune is back to look over another weekend packed with sporting incident. Where will the fickle arrow of fate land today? Good Weekend Peter Stringer – Not for getting spat at, obviously. But for a dignified reaction to the most heinous of sporting crimes. Stringer…

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Tuesday 2nd April 2013

Wheel Of Sportune

The Wheel of Sportune is back to look over an Easter weekend packed with sporting incident. Where will the fickle arrow of fate land today? Good Weekend Sunderland AFC – A lacklustre weekend performance, characteristic of the inertia that has come to define recent exploits, was enough for…

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Tuesday 2nd April 2013

The Incomprehensible Sportsman

Sebastian Vettel’s decision to overtake his team-mate Mark Webber last weekend was a demonstration of the relentless, unyielding need to win which drives elite sportsmen to the top of their field and out of the realms of public understanding. When Vettel made the decision to ignore team orders…

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Tuesday 26th March 2013

Wheel Of Sportune

The Wheel of Sportune is angry. It was made to sit through two and a half hours of Sunday Brunch only to be rewarded with the World Cross Country Championships on BBC2. Luckily for us though, the Wheel was able to forget Tim Lovejoy’s ‘banter’, regain its composure,…

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Friday 22nd March 2013

UoN lacrosse take the Varsity crown

It was a physical encounter in freezing conditions, but barring a short spell of Trent dominance in the third quarter, Uni kept their heads up and went on to win 16-11 and to take this year’s Varsity crown.  Displaying their physical style from the off, Trent won the…

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Friday 22nd March 2013

UoN take 6-2 Varsity lead with netball domination

Total dominance in centre court brought about a crushing 54-34 victory over the Old Enemy to stretch Nottingham’s overall lead in the Series to 6-2. Centre court domination from Nottingham trio Sophie Freemantle, Harriet Johnston and Frankie Jaffa suffocated Trent from the second quarter onwards in what ended…

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