Thursday, August 5, 2010

Punting, Anyone?

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The 125th National Punting Championships is coming up this weekend of 7-8 August, Tim Koch, HTBS’s special correspondent, writes from London...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

New Book: Men Of Kent

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Next month, on 14 September to be more exact, a new rowing book will come out here in the States. The book, Men of Kent , by Rick Rinehart i...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Rowing In The Sun

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I never thought that I was going to quote or link something about rowing from the British paper The Sun (you know the tabloid, which is mo...
Sunday, August 1, 2010

Max Sculling

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The other day, Christopher Knight, who is an art critic for the Los Angeles Times , wrote a review on his blog for the mentioned newspaper: ...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Dress Code For A Steward

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The National Rowing Foundation's Executive Director, Hart Perry, (on the left) has for many years been the only American Steward of the ...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Agreeing With 'Gully'...

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In an e-mail from London, Tim Koch writes about the latest book he has read: I have just finished A Rainbow in the Sky, Reminiscences by G.O...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Greetings From Toronto!

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Rowing historian Bill Lanouette, expert on professional rowing, sent me an e-mail with greetings from Toronto, where he is on business. “I c...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Rowing Among Bomb Blasts

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How would it be to train for the 2012 Olympic rowing event in London with gunshots and bombs blasting close by? This is what the Iraqi rower...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

French Victory In Malmö

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Last weekend, on 17-18 July, the Swedish Rowing Sprint Championships were held in my old hometown of Malmö. The 600-metre course was a strai...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

Filming For The Facebook Movie

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HTBS special correspondent in London, Tim Koch, writes in an e-mail: With reference to today's post on the forthcoming feature film abou...

Facebook and Rowing

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Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, announced the other day that Facebook now has an incredible 500,000,000 members. On 1 October this yea...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Mysterious Sculler

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It is inevitable that when we talk about sport personalities, it is the great stars we mostly bring up, or those who maybe did not make it t...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Working From Home

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Today, the latest issue of The New Yorker (26 July, 2010) arrived in the mail. I was happily surprised to see that a cartoon on page 75 was...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

In The Spirit Of The Pococks

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Earlier today, I received a very nice e-mail from Jim Buckley, who is working in Washington, on the American west coast. Among other things,...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

The History Of Wellington RC

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Wellington Rowing Club is one of the famous rowing club’s in New Zealand. It was founded 125 years ago and earlier this spring the club publ...