Mike Henson

England

Broadcast Journalist at BBC Sport

@bbcsport journalist, also @thesetpieces @VICE @FourFourTwo @guardian_sport @AthleticsWeekly @F365. Previously @sportcal & @skynews

Articles

Things You Use All The Time Once You Have Them

1 week ago | primermagazine.com | Mike Henson

This post may contain affiliate links, read about our editorial promiseYou wouldn’t know it if you looked in my closet, but I really am trying to embrace minimalism these days. I look around the house and I think My goodness, whose stuff is all of this? Truth be told, most of it is mine.
My Personal Style Now that I'm Basically Middle-Aged

3 weeks ago | primermagazine.com | Mike Henson

This post may contain affiliate links, read about our editorial promiseWhen I was seventeen, I got my first pair of Cole Haans: the tucker venetian. Not only were they amazingly comfortable, but they marked the incipience of my personal style journey. During my college years I vacillated between preppy and something I’m going to call elite grunge. It didn’t go well. Once I started teaching, I’d found my stride, and I was a full-blown prep: khakis, loafers, tie, jacket.
Rugby Football Union: Beaumont warns against rebel vote

4 weeks ago | bbc.com | Mike Henson

The Rugby Football Union would slide into months of "rancour and disruption" should a rebel motion to oust chief executive Bill Sweeney pass on Thursday, interim chair Bill Beaumont has warned. A collective of clubs, led by those in the second-tier Championship, have forced a referendum on Sweeney's leadership.
British and Irish Lions: Andy Farrell may strike deal for Top 14 stars

4 weeks ago | bbc.com | Mike Henson

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Kinghorn (left) and Willis started Toulouse's Champions Cup final win over Leinster last yearBBC Sport rugby union news reporterThe British and Irish Lions may negotiate with top French clubs for early release of players for this summer's tour of Australia. Blair Kinghorn, Jack Willis, Ben White and Kyle Sinckler are among the potential tourists in contention to play in the Top 14 play-offs that clash with the start of the Lions' itinerary.
Anning relishes view from the top after world gold

1 month ago | sports.yahoo.com | Mike Henson

Staring out from the 61st floor, overlooking Nanjing's glass-and-steel skyline, Amber Anning could finally get the highs and lows into perspective. Two weeks before, she had been reduced to tears after disqualification for a lane infringement at the European Indoor Championships in the Netherlands. Three hours before, she had redeemed herself on the global stage in China, becoming the first British woman to win the 400m world indoor title. And, a few minutes earlier, she had lost once more.
Amber Anning: GB's 400m world indoor champion on racing, redemption & rivals

1 month ago | bbc.com | Mike Henson

Her ascent to the upper reaches of the sport has been stylish. Last summer, she surged to a championship record when she won the British title, leaving Laviai Nielsen and Jodie Williams in her slipstream. In Nanjing, on the tight bends of an indoor track, she was bumped by American Alexis Holmes with 175m to go. Anning went wide, back and, potentially, out of contention. But she regathered herself, nibbled into Holmes' lead, powered off the last bend and beat her rival on the dip.
Premiership Rugby: Henry Pollock, George Ford and other talking points

1 month ago | bbc.com | Mike Henson

Image source, Getty Images Image caption, There are six regular-season rounds of the Premiership remaining with Jamie Benson (centre) and Will Muir (right) eyeing the play-offs with Harlequins and Bath, while Henry Pollock's Northampton look to be out of the running BBC Sport rugby union news reporter After an eight-week hiatus for the Six Nations, the Premiership returned with a roar this weekend, as a slate of derby matches delivered big names, big scores and big shifts in the race for the...
Bloodgate: How scandal rocked rugby

1 month ago | bbc.com | Mike Henson

Williams, having supposedly brought disgrace on Harlequins by independently concocting the blood capsule plan, sought advice from the Rugby Players' Association. They urged him to appeal, to blow the whistle on the whole plot. But the club had other ideas. Williams was offered a new two-year deal, three years of guaranteed employment at the club once he had retired and a promise to help him build a career outside of rugby. He just had to hold back on the real story.
Blood brothers - bonds and betrayal on a rugby pitch

1 month ago | sports.yahoo.com | Mike Henson

Tom Williams, kneeling on one knee, runs his hand over the blades of grass. His eyes are desperately scanning as his heartbeat rises further. It is deep in the second half of the 2009 Heineken Cup quarter-final at the Stoop. Williams' team - Harlequins - are a point down. It is the biggest match the 25-year-old has ever played in. Harlequins are aiming to make the last four for the first time.
Lions 2025 tour: Ian Foster to coach Australia/New Zealand combined XV against tourists

1 month ago | bbc.com | Mike Henson

Former New Zealand boss Ian Foster says "unfinished business" from the All Blacks' drawn series with the British and Irish Lions in 2017 motivated him to take the coaching reins of a combined Australia/New Zealand team which will face the tourists this summer. The Lions will play the invitational side on 12 July in Adelaide in their final match before the opening Test against Australia in Brisbane a week later.