Could a PUP list be an assortment of baby doggies selected for a canine beauty pageant? Of course not. If the meaning of the word PUP was even remotely related to our furry friends, then it wouldn’t make it onto the Sportsocratic “What is it… ?” page. It's an acronym, of course As you might have guessed, PUP is an acronym. As we know, Americans love acronyms. American sports … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2018
What is a kisser?
I doubt if even the most dedicated sports trivia freak would know what a kisser is. Yeah. I know. We could make jokes about Pepe Le Pew and his shenanigans. We could also make cracks about Errol Flynn and his favourite pastime though kissing might not be one hundred percent accurate in Errol’s case. There is a tenuous link between a kisser in the sporting sense and Errol … [Read more...]
How Socrates (nearly) openned the batting for Australia! A true cricket tale.
I was in the second year of an overseas posting working for a multi-national publishing company in Maidenhead, England. One day the Managing Director of the U.K. Publishing house I worked for stopped me in the foyer as I was leaving the building. I was about to start a three-day road trip visiting university towns in the North of England to jag some new authors for the … [Read more...]
Encountering tribalism… head on! Ebbsy discovers the meaning of ouch.
Sport purports to be the formal representation of a fundamental human urge. Somewhere between the ritual thumping of the neighbouring village in a colourful mock battle and Skrilla there exists the globally important and much-loved world of professional sport. Skrilla was launched in December 2017. It is a digital currency that operates as a gambling chip in the virtual … [Read more...]