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  • Football League long weekender

    Football League long weekender

    Key matches • Is there a bigger game in football next week than Huddersfield’s trip to Charlton on Monday? It’s first v second. The Terriers continue to close on the record of becoming English football’s greatest invincibles (43 unbeaten now). The Addicks have lost one of 18 themselves this season. …

     
  • David Millar says BOA is putting politics before sport in Wada dispute

    David Millar says BOA is putting politics before sport in Wada dispute

    David Millar, the British cyclist currently banned for life from the Olympics after serving a two-year drug ban, has accused the British Olympic Association of putting politics ahead of sport in its dispute with the World Anti-Doping Agency. “I think it’s more of a political argument at the moment and …

     
  • Win tickets to the British Grand Prix

    Win tickets to the British Grand Prix

    Photograph: guardian.co.uk We’ve teamed up with Silverstone to offer one lucky winner a pair of three day general entry tickets to next year’s British Grand Prix. For further information on the 2012 FORMULA 1 SANTANDER BRITISH GRAND PRIX, or to book tickets, visit www.silverstone.co.uk or call 0844 3728 300.

     
  • Moneyball – review

    Moneyball – review

    This is a film that puts a funky kind of Gladwellian-Freakonomic spin on the underdog sports movie. It is intriguing despite being, for me, in an untranslated foreign language. Much of it is about the technical business of baseball, which is lost on me, and also, I suspect, on many …

     
  • RFU must banish blazer culture, says radical report

    RFU must banish blazer culture, says radical report

    A radical report commissioned by the Rugby Football Union to look at the way it runs the game recommends ending the blazer culture at Twickenham by slashing the numbers on the governing body’s council and replacing old-time amateurs with those directly involved in the top end of the game, such …

     
  • Tottenhams Jermain Defoe will not be sold in January – Harry Redknapp

    Tottenhams Jermain Defoe will not be sold in January – Harry Redknapp

    Harry Redknapp has said he will not sell Jermain Defoe in January and has met the striker to reassure him he will have a part to play for Tottenham Hotspur over the remainder of the season. Defoe has grown frustrated at his inability to command a regular place in Redknapp’s …

     
 
 
 
 
 

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