Jessy Parker Humphreys

1 week ago | observer.co.uk | Jessica Hayden |Jessy Parker Humphreys

Fearing legal jeopardy following the Supreme Court ruling, sport governing bodies have taken action In 1921, the Football Association announced a ban on women playing football on professional grounds and pitches. 104 years later, they have once again enforced a ban, announcing on Thursday that transgender women will be banned from playing in FA-affiliated women’s leagues from 1 June. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

1 week ago | observer.co.uk | Jessy Parker Humphreys

British No 1’s first final on his least favourite surface backs up his ambition of mixing it at the top of the men’s game When Jack Draper walks out on to the court at Caja Magica in Madrid on Sunday afternoon, he will already know that he has become the first British man since Andy Murray to crack the top five of the ATP rankings.

2 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Jessy Parker Humphreys

Introduced to it at primary school through the charity Cricket for Change, she went on to become the first black woman to play for England. Since retiring in 2012, she has gone on to be a celebrated broadcaster as well as Surrey’s first Director of Women’s Cricket. But her passion is improving participation, and that involves changing the perception of prospective players. “I once went to this school in Myatt’s Fields, down the road from where I grew up near Brixton.

2 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Jessy Parker Humphreys

It’s not just elite athletes who are using super shoes In 1978, Frank Rudy walked into Nike with an idea. The former NASA aeronautical engineer believed using air pockets in the soles of running shoes would improve performance. He had failed to convince 23 previous shoe companies, but Nike felt differently. Almost 50 years later, Rudy’s idea has led to an arms race of “super” shoes.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jessy Parker Humphreys

It has been a bruising couple of weeks for Manchester City. Only twenty days ago, they sacked long-term head coach Gareth Taylor ahead of a monumental run of four successive fixtures against Chelsea across three competitions. There was plenty of focus on what that decision would mean for those games in particular but in City's accompanying statement, the real rationale was clear.