Barry Davies
Barry George Davies MBE (born 24 October 1937 in London, England) is a British sports commentator and television presenter. He has covered a wide range of sports in a long career, primarily for the BBC.
Although best known for his football commentary, Davies has commentated on numerous other sports, including tennis, badminton, ice hockey, ice skating, gymnastics, hockey, cycling, beach volleyball and athletics, and primarily in the BBC's Olympics coverage, where he thrice (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and London 2012) commentated on the opening and closing ceremonies of the Summer Games. He was also the 'Voice of the Boat Race' between 1993 and 2004, until the BBC lost the rights to cover the event, and the presenter of Maestro in the 1980s, a series of interviews with retired sporting legends. He currently serves as the commentator for the Channel 4 programme, The Jump.
Early life
Davies was educated at Cranbrook School—which also numbers commentators Brian Moore and Peter West amongst its alumni—and King's College London, where he read Dentistry, although contrary to what has often been reported he never qualified or practised as a dentist. He says in his autobiography that his original aim was to become a doctor, but although he did well in his school exams, he didn't quite get the grades required to win a university place to read medicine. Dentistry was therefore a second choice that he "soon came to regret" and eventually he "flunked out" due to spending too much time playing and watching sport.
Barry Davies (disambiguation)
Barry Davies (born 1937) is a British sports commentator.
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Barry Davies (rugby union)
Barry Davies (born 5 March 1981 in Carmarthen, Wales) is a Welsh rugby union footballer. Davies has also been capped by Wales at international level. His usual position is at full back.
Davies joined Llanelli as a 19-year-old from Carmarthen Athletic. He has since made over 100 appearances for Llanelli and the Llanelli Scarlets. During his career at Stradey Park he became the region's top try scorer, racking up 37 tries in his lengthy stay at the region.
Davies was first included in the Welsh squad in 2004, for a series of mid-year tests, after scoring a memorable try for the Scarlets against Northampton Saints in the Heineken Cup pool stages, where the Scarlets needed to win the game to qualify for the quarter-finals, which they accomplished. This try provoked reaction all over the Welsh Rugby world and earned Davies a Wales call up. Unfortunately, he was an unused bench replacement in a match against Argentina on June 19.
He made his debut for Wales in early 2006, during the Six Nations that year. He came off the bench in a match against Ireland at Lansdowne Road, which Wales lost 31–5.
Barry Davies (Cardiff RFC rugby player)
W. "Barry" Davies was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Cardiff and international rugby for Wales, playing in one match, against Scotland in 1896.
Rugby career
Little is recorded of Davies, though it is known that he began his rugby career with Barry RFC, his hometown club and the origin of his nickname. Davies then switched to Cardiff Star, a small club team in Cardiff, notable for producing talent such as Gwyn Nicholls. Like Nicholls, Davies was noticed by major Welsh club Cardiff RFC joining them before the turn of the century.
In 1896 Davies was selected to represent the Wales national rugby team for the Home Nations Championship. Played at the Cardiff Arms Park against Scotland, the team, and the pack in particular saw a massive overhaul after a humiliating loss to England three weeks earlier. Davies was one of five new players brought into the eight man pack, and was joined by two Cardiff team mates in the backs, Nicholls and Selwyn Biggs. Despite being part of the winning team, Wales beating Scotland 6-0, Davies was replaced for the last game of the tournament by Fred Miller.
'Barry Davies' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Special Forces: Untold Stories (2002)
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Dando Cara
Rap rebelde... Pa' que respeten... ARB está en el Panzer...
Rap combativo... No estamos jugando, niño...
Vinimos a ponerle ritmo a la rebeldía... Popular poesía...
Es puro rap crudo, pa' bajarte los humos...
Portavoz está en el AK47...
Antes de empezar, quisiera al pueblo pedir disculpas
Por crear un tema de leseras que poco preocupan
Pero hay demasia'os gueones alucina'os que dan caldo
Y, de vez en cuando, no es malo aterrizarlo y bajarlo
El rap político no es algo que recién se inventa
Es lo que hizo Last Poets y Public Enemy en los ochenta
Es la senda que se reinventa en cada zona
Es cosa de usar el coco y la memoria y leer un poco de historia
Me dicen despectivamente "resentido"
Y de frente son amigos y quieren hacer temas conmigo
Aquí esta el activista en la pista
El que pone furioso a todos esos raperos puristas
¡Échensela! ¡Me los desayuno uno por uno!
Tengo demasia'os conoci'os y hoy quiero perder algunos
Les arderá el culo, vine a estropearle el carrete
A mi me inspira el Che, ¡y a Uds. parece que el "Che Copete"!
Que sus pataletas sean más honestas: si en verdad lo que les
Molesta es que mi rap protesta suene hasta en sus fiestas
Que le hayamos puesto flow y estilo al rap social
Y que ahora por moda hasta los "competi" lo quieran crear
Mis letras te acomplejan la existencia, y aunque te apeste
Me expando como la Peste Negra en tu conciencia
Tú no te influencias, tú copias con descaro
Tu mierda no es propia¡es una fotocopia del rap sevillano!
Que la ciencia sepa de estos weones
Varios raperos llegaron primero a "La Era de los Clones"
Señores, no busco fama ni ser una estrellita
Si mi rap lo difundió el pueblo es porque lo identifica
Salgo en varios flyers porque lo pide la calle
Antes que estalle de envidia será mejor que se calle y ensaye
No vaya a ser que cuando me explaye lo ametralle
No hay modo en que falle, cuando yo payo se prende el fire
Sin más detalle, mi rap es de talla XL
Los mayas me profetizaron en sus murallas, nene
Vaya tele la que te pasas cuando batalla quieres
¿Allá vienes? ¡Pasa la raya si es que agallas tienes!
Batalla es la que da el mapuche con newén
Por autodeterminación contra el patrón y su Estado burgués
Para tu ridiculez y ponte en pie de guerra
Contra los explotadores del puto sistema es el lema
(CORO)
Afírmense que mi rap está en guerra
Sigue de pie, pobla, barrio, favela,
Vamo' a vencer, dando cara a cualquiera
Que quiera hacerse perra faldera de este sistema (x2)
Si querís sonar en radios principales, ¡simple!
Hace canciones mamonas lo más banales posible
No pongas crítica en tus letras, política no metas
Hace música pa' fiesta, de esa bonita pero hueca
Aquí hay dos culturas: una pudiente y oficial
Y otra que perdura entre mi gente en lo popular
Una es superficialsólo le importa la estética
La otra brota de la guata de zonas periféricas
Mis líricas se fabrican desde acá abajo
Entre "coletos", talleres, organizaciones y sindicatos
Entre pasajes flacos, "blocks" baratos y canchas de tierra
Y es que el rap nació en el barrio y en el barrio se queda
Comprueba: no me hables de ghetto si no eres digno
Tú le faltaste el respeto al ghetto cantando en "Yingo"
Y es que voy a salir en la tele el día que la construya el pueblo
O cuando el Estado cerdo me encarcele
Que estupendo atuendo llevas puesto en cada evento
Pero tu talento está lento y eso es muy fácil verlo
Les recuerdo: pueden vestir a la moda con mononas telas
Pero aunque la mona vista seda, igual mona queda
No quiero ser millonario, hermano:
Quiero raptar a uno y dejarlo desnudo y sin ni'uno en el barrio
No soy na' un empresario del capital
Un rapero es vocero del pueblo, un guerrero leal
No hago rap por el rap, hago rap pa' pensar
Pa' revelar verdades que la prensa no te va a mostrar
Pa' dar nuestra versión y visión de lo contingente
Por la reconstrucción de nuestra población rebelde
¿Comprenden? Les llegó la hora de su juicio
Y no es que me crea una autoridad o un fiscal hechizo
Tan sólo soy un emisario del rap
Un sicario del barrio que por mandato los vino a fusilar... ¡Praaa!
(CORO)
Afírmense que mi rap está en guerra
Sigue de pie, pobla, barrio, favela,
Vamo' a vencer, dando cara a cualquiera