When We Were Kings.

by roger mitchell | Nov 17, 2024

This was written and submitted before the result but, by the time it is published, we shall all know the victor in the “prize fight” between former champion (Iron) Mike Tyson and YouTube influencer Jake Paul. Regardless of the monies earned by all involved, this event...

I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed). 

by roger mitchell | Nov 3, 2024

Sport, and life, seems to work hard to bring things together exactly as they were maybe always meant to be. Destiny appears to enjoy mapping out long and winding roads, to simply bring us to where we were inevitably going to end up. Some will say that this is just a...

Il Milan… a Cardinal(e) sin?

by roger mitchell | Oct 27, 2024

It’s not every day you get to meet the major protagonists in anything. I write this on a train to Turin, to lunch with Andrea Agnelli, a member of the family that has utterly defined the country in which I have chosen to live almost all of my adult life. He had read...

Eyes Wide Shut?

by roger mitchell | Oct 20, 2024

Charlie Simpson of Scottish Rugby put this previous Sunday Column into AI software to show how the technology can now automatically create an original two-way avatar conversation on any piece. It produced this.   As someone who has worked in disruptive tech for...

Don’t be Evil!

by roger mitchell | Oct 13, 2024

Zaz (David Zaslav), boss of Warner Bros Discovery, can’t catch a break. We have often covered in these Columns how he is now really struggling. For a sport strategy post NBA, with tense carriage deals negotiations, VENU uncertainty, the debt, and basically trying to...