NewsBiscuit

The news before it happens…

Posts Tagged ‘Ashes’

Women still buying the existence of ‘cricket’

men all over the world 'in on it'As the Ashes series gets underway in Cardiff, men from the world’s cricket-playing nations are congratulating themselves on another summer in which women seem prepared to continue believing that cricket is a genuine sport. Despite the rules being understood by no one and matches taking ages to complete, having breaks for meals and being halted should the sun go in, women appear happy to let their men-folk disappear for days on end to participate in or watch absolutely nothing happening at all.

Read more >

Posted: Jul 8th, 2009
More from Sport



A&E departments put on red alert for two days without sport

Accident & Emergency departments were put on the highest alert yesterday morning at the start of two whole days without sport, amid reports of cack-handed men emerging from the sofa to tackle the backlog of DIY, often with devastating results.

Read more >

Posted: Jul 7th, 2009
More from News In Brief