Source: www.irishexaminer.com - Thursday, January 31, 2019
Ernest Hemingway’s take on sports was pretty simplistic. And brutal. “There are only three sports,” he is reputed to have said, “bullfighting, motor racing and mountaineering. All the rest are merely games.” Italy head coach Conor O'Shea and captain Sergio Paresse with the Six Nations trophy during the 2019 Guinness Six Nations Rugby Championship Launch at the Hurlingham Club in London, England. Photo by Ian Walton/Sportsfile. Such anoutlook was perfectly in keeping with a man whose life was a necklace of one adventure after another. It’s unlikely then he would have much truck with today’s sporting pastimes and their adherence to such crazy whimsies as health and safety but it was also Hemingway who apparently coined the phrase ‘grace under pressure’ in 1926 when asked to define ‘guts’ by Dorothy Parker in an interview for the New Yorker. All of which brings us, in a roundabout sort, to Conor O’Shea. Italian head coach since March of 2016, O’Shea is still waiting on a first Six Nations win after 10 attempts. Italy has won just six of the 28 games under his command and there is speculation the federation have sounded out the Racing coaching ticket of Laurent Travers and Laurent Labit. And how does he deal with it? With grace. And modesty. By mentioning that he’s delighted with the input of Wayne Smith who he has persuaded to lend a hand. And by adding that the Kiwi’s breadth of knowledge has made him feel as though he himself kno
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Ernest Hemingway’s take on sports was pretty simplistic. And brutal. “There are only three sports,” he is reputed to have said, “bullfighting, motor racing and mountaineering. All the rest are merely games.” Italy head coach Conor O'Shea and captain Sergio Paresse with the Six Nations trophy during the 2019 Guinness Six Nations Rugby Championship Launch at the Hurlingham Club in London, England. Photo by Ian Walton/Sportsfile. Such anoutlook was perfectly in keeping with a man whose life was a necklace of one adventure after another. It’s unlikely then he would have much truck with today’s sporting pastimes and their adherence to such crazy whimsies as health and safety but it was also Hemingway who apparently coined the phrase ‘grace under pressure’ in 1926 when asked to define ‘guts’ by Dorothy Parker in an interview for the New Yorker. All of which brings us, in a roundabout sort, to Conor O’Shea. Italian head coach since March of 2016, O’Shea is still waiting on a first Six Nations win after 10 attempts. Italy has won just six of the 28 games under his command and there is speculation the federation have sounded out the Racing coaching ticket of Laurent Travers and Laurent Labit. And how does he deal with it? With grace. And modesty. By mentioning that he’s delighted with the input of Wayne Smith who he has persuaded to lend a hand. And by adding that the Kiwi’s breadth of knowledge has made him feel as though he himself kno
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