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You would have to be living a very sheltered life not to have noticed that the Premier League this season is one of the best and the brightest for years. [...]

It was quite a year for some of the worst of sport - America's golfers, already among the richest and greediest men on the planet, wanting a massive extra bung […]

Under a dark sapphire sky, tearing across grass as green as a lick of new paint, Mitchell Starc raced in to launch the first ball of the latest Australia vs […]

When it comes to dishing out God's gifts, you feel the Almighty could be a little more even-handed. Take Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii for example. He is the extraordinary young centre who […]

Your starter for ten: who was the last English manager to win the top flight of English football? Treat yourself to a half-time pie and a mug of Bovril if [...]

Sailing's very own ubermensch Sir Ben Ainslie has every right to be considered the world's most competitive bloke. Those who knew him as a teenager say he always had just [...]

There may still be some poor benighted souls who regard the Springboks as the bane of rugby union. If you meet one, get ready to dispense a proper mauling. South […]

In the exhilarating event of Somerset managing to sneak past Surrey and being on their way to claim their first county cricket championship since the Norman Conquest--or since Vic Marks […]

Readers concerned that the seemingly imperious march of Bazball across the cricket firmament has blotted out the more, er, traditional virtues of the game need fret no more. Matches in [...]

Time to come clean: I really like the Hundred. This is the sort of view that normally makes people look at you as if you had just professed an admiration [...]

You knew it was going to be a superb Olympics from the moment Celine Dion belted out an Edith Piaf classic from the Eiffel Tower. And nothing since has disappointed [...]

The Olympics have been creeping up on us through the forest of top-class sport this summer. But now they're here, the third time the summer Games have been held in [...]

Talk about raging against the dying of the light: Andy Murray and President Biden both. Murray because he is no longer as quick on his feet and Joe Biden because [...]

Say what you like about Gary Lineker, and plenty do, but he's a terrific presenter and when he's not running it, Match of the Day dials down a notch. If [...]

The Pac-Man defence, as all high-flying financiers know, is a tactic borrowed from the enjoyably addictive computer game which means that if you feel you are under attack then you [...]

Plodding up Wembley Way to the FA Cup Final at the weekend surrounded by a phalanx of well-refreshed Manchester United fans was not a savoury experience, but the game was [...]

Spare a thought for Manchester United's Erik ten Hag. He's got a fairly crummy, injuryhit team who appear to have given up running (apart from Alejandro Garnacho who is still [...]

Poor Gareth Southgate. Having three outstanding finishers is giving him a thumping headache ahead of the European Championship. Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden are thrilling football crowds with [...]

Well it was fun while it lasted, the closest three-way race for the Premier League in history, a title challenge as exciting as anything you will see on Netflix. It's [...]

It's freezing cold and everywhere is flooded, so it must be the start of the county cricket season. Surrey, last year's champions, head for Old Trafford on Friday, in what [...]

It's not easy for most right-thinking people to care much about golf and golfers apart from gasping in wonder at the size of their bank balances. Right now the Saudi-backed [...]

After the failure of Bazball ending in England's dismal capitulation on the cricket fields of India - let us give thanks for the emergence of Borthball in front of the [...]

Well, who could have guessed it? So the world of Formula 1 isn't a cleanliving sanctuary of good behaviour that makes a Convocation of Bishops look like the court of [...]

Watching England play Wales in the Six Nations the other day, a lacklustre match between two middling sides and distinguished only by lashings of Welsh hwyl as the visitors outperformed [...]

You couldn't miss the heartbreaking irony of one of the greatest rugby players who ever pulled on his boots passing away just as the latest tournament was getting under way [...]

Did football officials watch Mr Bates vs The Post Office? They should have--and learned from it. Otherwise they could be next in the crosshairs of a TV dramatist. Just as [...]

It is surely the ultimate challenge in international cricket: winning a Test series in India. It's the pinnacle for a Test team, much harder than in Australia. India have lost [...]

Could this be the year when England's men win their first international football trophy for 58 years? After all, they have the best striker in Europe in Harry Kane and [...]

Anyone who thought Gavin Henson, perma-tanned Welsh rugby three-quarter and onetime escort of Charlotte Church, was just an overhyped glamour boy should think again. He has revealed himself as one [...]

Anyone know the Hindi for schadenfreude? Who could have seen that coming: certainly not your correspondent, who had invested some time ago in India to win the Cricket World Cup. [...]

It's a long time since the household telephone occupied a place of honour in the sitting room or hall, to be answered like a shot when the rings pealed out. [...]

It's a tricky old time for cricket. The collapse of England's World Cup white-ballers--and how they have managed to run up the white flag with quite such aplomb--is one of [...]

In the days when Spitting Image was funny it featured a song called 'I've Never Met A Nice South African'. In fairness it was in 1986, long before the end [...]

Has there ever been an athlete, male or female, quite like Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time? She is like something from another planet, so out of this [...]

At last the Ryder Cup is here--well, in Rome--and with it Europe's biennial chance to stick it to the Americans in a sport that matters in a format that we [...]

'What are you still doing here?' joked Daniil Medvedev to Novak Djokovic after their US Open tennis final--a lung-busting baseline slugfest featuring jaw-dropping athleticism and brilliant shot-making--had ended in a [...]

So the end is near... or it certainly will be soon if England's rugby players carry on trying to do it their way. One thing we can be certain about: [...]

England's preparation for the upcoming rugby World Cup is beginning to look like a slowmotion car crash, after two pathetic performances against Wales. Those of a betting disposition might want [...]

And they said Test cricket was in its death throes! This epic, attention-grabbing, emotionwringing Ashes series ended in the last minutes of the last hour of the last session of [...]

Great sport needs great rivalries, and that is why anyone with a pulse must celebrate being in the throes of an unrivalled confluence of extraordinary sporting occasions right now. As [...]

On a recent windswept night in Rome's Circus Maximus--once home of the chariot races--Bruce Springsteen delivered a three-hour epic show that transcended any definition of rock music. Above and beyond, [...]

Who can turn lying on a hospital gurney into a photo op? Emma Raducanu can, of course--beaming as she showed off her bandaged wrist and arm, in a photo of [...]

What's not to love about David de Gea? Manchester United's goalkeeper might appear to have it all: a humongous salary, a lovely family, a sensationally beautiful wife, Edurne Garcia, who [...]

It would take a brave man to pick a fight with Roy Keane, and nobody could quarrel with his view of Liverpool's Scotland fullback Andy Robertson after a skirmish at [...]

It's been quite a while since we celebrated any of Sharron Davies's considerable achievements in the pool--well, a bronze and a silver in 1990 at Auckland was the last time--but [...]

Rejoice, as you don't normally say after a hammering like the peerless French dished out to England at Twickenham. But looking on the bright side, at last English rugby knows [...]

Readers of a certain vintage might be familiar with the work of J.A. (Charles) Cuddon, a teacher at Emanuel School in London and author of the Macmillan Dictionary of Sport [...]

Q. I work part-time with a lovely girl (aged 27) in a tiny office. She is very nice and not too woke. But she wears cheap scent that has a [...]

The first two rounds of the Six Nations have exploded across the sporting landscape in superlative-draining displays of skill and power. But still the England Rugby Union team is as [...]

If you think the Calcutta Cup is just any old rugby match between England and Scotland, then the latest in BT Sport's fine series of documentaries should put you straight. [...]