Open any edition of Wisden and alongside the Laws of the Game, you will find several pages devoted to ‘The Spirit Of Cricket’. But in a modern professional game, isn’t this just an anachronism? Andrew Hughes thinks not

Open any edition of Wisden and alongside the Laws of the Game, you will find several pages devoted to ‘The Spirit Of Cricket’. But in a modern professional game, isn’t this just an anachronism? Andrew Hughes thinks not.

Home at last. After seven-and-a-half weeks away watching other people play poker, I have finally returned to my home on the east coast of the United States.

Having started to cover tourneys in a variety of places, I can say that we are especially well provided for in terms of our working conditions in the Atlantic City Casino, where I am this week helping cover LAPT Lima. And I’m not just talking about those helpful signs above our work stations. First off, the LAPT, PokerStars, and Atlantic City Casino folks are all extremely supportive and looking out for us at every step.

Because after winning the first race of the season in Bahrain, the Spaniard hasn’t really won shit in Asia. And now that the European leg of the 2010 F1 season is about to kick off in his home country of Spain, Fernando Alonso is looking forward to having a series of strong finishes in the next few races, claiming that this leg is where the race for the title truly begins.