Benjamin Markovits

Articles by Benjamin Markovits

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Heroic unhappiness

  • 02 January 2012

Touched by time

  • 23 April 2009

Brooklyn Colm Tóibín Viking, 256pp, £17.99

A new global game?

  • 15 January 2009

Obama and Sport

The boys of summer

  • 21 August 2006

My friend and I dressed and ran out on to the glittering court

Do the decent thing

  • 07 August 2006

Why back an underdog, asks Benjamin Markovits, if you know it's hopeless?

Injuring time

  • 24 July 2006

The first thing a sportsman learns is how to hurt others

Sport - Benjamin Markovits learns to lose

  • 05 June 2006

There is an art to being a good loser, but master it too well and you're lost

Sport - Benjamin Markovits wants a record to stand

  • 29 May 2006

At 41, Barry Bonds is stretching towards a last great record. Most people want him to fail

Sport - Benjamin Markovits misses a hoop

  • 22 May 2006

A missed hoop, a scuffed shot . . . It's all too painful, the moment that can never be rerun

Sport - Benjamin Markovits wants sports on Newsnight Review

  • 06 February 2006

As with artists, the success of most athletes comes from their skill in ringing the changes

Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

A witch-hunt?

A witch-hunt against the Sun?

Osborne's woes

Osborne hoisted with his own petard

Marr's monarchism

Enough of this royal deference

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012
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