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Advertorial: POSB Everyday Champions 2009

The inau­gural POSB Every­day Cham­pi­ons awards was held on 26th Feb­ru­ary 2009 at St Regis. Out of over 3,000 nom­i­nees (no, I didn’t nom­i­nate Coach Frank because of res­i­dency issues), 57 were win­ners on the night, and among them was Super Soc­cer Mum Carol Lim, 52, who 10 years ago set up the Elias Park Foot­ball Club.

Advertorial: SSC POSB Everyday Champions

I’ve been asked to write about either a per­son or an orga­ni­za­tion that inspires or sup­ports or encour­ages par­tic­i­pa­tion in sports. I can think of a hand­ful of peo­ple I know who have been influ­en­tial, although not in the way we’re accus­tomed to see­ing, in pro­mot­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion, and to a cer­tain extent, excel­lence in their

Team Hoyt

If you don’t have enough of a tear-jerker among your Korean drama down­loads, or you are sim­ply inured to so many oth­er­wise mov­ing things in life, then you have to be told the story of Team Hoyt. Rick Hoyt was born severely dis­abled and his par­ents were told he would live in a per­ma­nently veg­e­ta­tive state.

Local hero: Fandi Ahmad

16 July 1982: Ajax Ams­ter­dam offers Fandi a three year con­tract Sin­ga­pore foot­ball has been in the last cou­ple of years, you either need a new hero, or at least, look back to when there were heroes. Fandi is still the only Sin­ga­porean player that I know to have been pur­sued by Euro­pean and South

Why golf is as good as tennis