Comedian John Bishop is set to push his body to the limit for Sport Relief.
Times wires Tuesday, February 7, 2012 cycling contador won't quit, maintains innocence MADRID — Alberto Contador vowed Tuesday to return to the pinnacle of cycling, maintaining his innocence in the face of a two-year doping ban that stripped the Spanish star of his 2010 Tour de France title. He said his lawyers are considering whether to appeal the ban handed down by sport's highest court and ...
National signing day for college football is an occasion for pontificating. But the preening? That just seems misguided.
Myanmar is poised to adopt a new media law that could sweep away half a century of heavy-handed censorship, as an increasingly impatient press cautiously test the boundaries of newly-won freedoms.
If Super Bowl Sunday is a day you look forward to with great anticipation each year, if it is a day that you equate with excitement and good times, there's something you should know:
Anthony Calvillo says he's getting better with age even though he will be without one of his favourite targets, Kerry Watkins, in 2012.
It's 4:45 a.m. and thousands of people are waiting in sub-freezing temperatures to enter a 20,000-seat arena for a competitive-eating contest that's been sold out for weeks.
Mohab Magdy, a senior sport editor for Yahoo! in Egypt, tries to make sense of Wednesday's tragedy that left 74 of his countrymen dead.
SHIPPENSBURG -- Shippensburg University field hockey coach Bertie Landes will be officially inducted Saturday into the Zag Field Hockey Tours/National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Hall of Fame Class of 2011.
Riis pledges to stand by his rider and says there’s no indications of doping
Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton has completed her gruelling 500 mile expedition across Antarctica for Sport Relief.
A few days after saying he didn't intend to defend his slam-dunk contest title during NBA All-Star weekend, Los Angeles Clippers power forward Blake Griffin on Monday left open the possibility that he will compete in the event after all.
Three Sport Miles being held in North Devon.
A few days after saying he didn't intend to defend his slam-dunk contest title during NBA All-Star weekend, Los Angeles Clippers power forward Blake Griffin on Monday left open the possibility that he will compete in the event after all.
Ahead of a major new series on Radio 4, Paul Hayward explains why the British national identity is intertwined with the games we play.
On the field, the story of the 2011 Los Angeles Dodgers was not that bad. The team finished 82-79 after a strong second half. Clayton Kershaw won the National League Cy Young award, and Matt Kemp was the best player in the league. The ownership mess with Frank McCourt and the incident involving Bryan Stow early in the year put a black eye over everything. The franchise is about to enter an ...
On 17 June 1970, Italy's football team beat West Germany 4-3 in the World Cup semi-final. "In the 32 to 33 minutes between Schnellinger's goal and the end of . . . extra time, Italians discovered the nation," wrote the sociologist Nando dalla Chiesa.
The BCS may be on the way out, and a new way of determining a college football champion may be introduced as early as this season. Well, it would take effect in 2014 when the new cycle begins, but if the Big Ten has any say, the proposal could be approved as early as this year. The plan is to take the Top Four teams from the BCS pool and have them play against each other. The Top Two seeds will ...
A DUCHY College employee has been selected to work with the medical team for London Olympic and Paralympian athletes.
After winning first tournament, JP Kimbrough has high hopes for future angling career JP Kimbrough of Benton was a seventh grader when the Bassmaster Classic came to Bossier City in February 2009. Kimbrough, an avid baseball player at the time, had not done much fishing before then, other than a few times when he was younger. However, there was something special about watching the Bassmaster ...
