Mike Jakeman

The Premier League is not boring

8 March 2026 8:38 pm

In the Premier League this season, the number of open-play goals, shots and passes are all the lowest in years.…

India are becoming unbeatable in T20 cricket

15 February 2026 4:30 pm

India are very likely to win the T20 World Cup that they are currently co-hosting with Sri Lanka. They won…

Is it over for the Old Firm?

26 January 2026 4:30 pm

For 40 years Glasgow has held the power in Scottish football. Since Alex Ferguson’s Aberdeen won the league in 1985,…

Can Arteta hold his nerve?

18 January 2026 10:53 pm

The second half of the Premier League season is brimming with stories and subplots. Hundreds of players are hoping to…

Australia’s cricket was just too good

11 January 2026 4:30 pm

The longest postscript in sport is finally over. On the eve of the first Ashes test, which began on 21…

The circus of the Joshua-Paul boxing fight

21 December 2025 12:47 am

‘The numbers are putrid, to say the least,’ harrumphed commentator Maura Ranallo at the start of the fourth round of…

The sickness at the heart of boxing

22 March 2025 9:00 am

After 30 years as a boxing correspondent, Donald McRae has seen enough, angered by the lies, dope, inadequate safety protocols and lure of Saudi sponsorship

The sheer drudgery of professional tennis

15 June 2024 9:00 am

The most surprising thing about Conor Niland’s bruising account of his tennis career is that he emerges with his sanity intact

The secret of success in Formula 1

6 April 2024 9:00 am

For decades, competitive advantage depended on finding loopholes in the sport’s rule book – and no one knew that better than the British entrepreneur Bernie Ecclestone

Slippery stuff

13 November 2021 9:00 am

As humans, we are supposed to have an aversion to slime. It should repel us. Objects and organisms that might…