Spectator sport

Add Ben Stokes to the world’s greatest batsmen

9 January 2016 9:00 am

On Sunday morning a friend texted: ‘You watching the big bash, or the domestic stuff down in Australia?’ On one…

Add Ben Stokes to the world’s greatest batsmen

7 January 2016 3:00 pm

On Sunday morning a friend texted: ‘You watching the big bash, or the domestic stuff down in Australia?’ On one…

From the dismal to the delightful: the year in sport

12 December 2015 9:00 am

So long, then, to another thrilling year of sport in which the full range of human possibility — from the…

From the dismal to the delightful: the year in sport

10 December 2015 3:00 pm

So long, then, to another thrilling year of sport in which the full range of human possibility — from the…

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The Davis Cup will be one final flourish for Andy’s Barmy Army

28 November 2015 9:00 am

There’s nothing quite like a sporting celebration, but the lash-up after Britain’s (almost) inevitable victory in the Davis Cup tennis…

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The Davis Cup will be one final flourish for Andy’s Barmy Army

26 November 2015 3:00 pm

There’s nothing quite like a sporting celebration, but the lash-up after Britain’s (almost) inevitable victory in the Davis Cup tennis…

Seb Coe is a fine man… but his roasting over the Russian athletics scandal is justified

14 November 2015 9:00 am

So Smiley was right all along: the bloody Russians were the baddest of the bad. The Pound report on the…

Seb Coe is a fine man… but his roasting over the Russian athletics scandal is justified

12 November 2015 3:00 pm

So Smiley was right all along: the bloody Russians were the baddest of the bad. The Pound report on the…

Joubert’s the man to sort out Syria

29 October 2015 3:00 pm

Not since Walter Palmer, a cudddly Minnesota dentist, put down his drill and vanished off the face of the earth…

Joubert’s the man to sort out Syria

29 October 2015 9:00 am

Not since Walter Palmer, a cudddly Minnesota dentist, put down his drill and vanished off the face of the earth…

I know who’s going to win the Rugby World Cup. I think

17 October 2015 8:00 am

England did have some clear winners in their otherwise beached Rugby World Cup campaign in the unlikely form of Lawrence…

I know who’s going to win the Rugby World Cup. I think

15 October 2015 2:00 pm

England did have some clear winners in their otherwise beached Rugby World Cup campaign in the unlikely form of Lawrence…

England captain Chris Robshaw (Photo: Getty)

Give Robshaw a break

3 October 2015 9:00 am

Pity poor Chris Robshaw. England’s sturdy captain might have a knockout girlfriend and exceptional skills on the cappuccino machine, but…

England captain Chris Robshaw (Photo: Getty)

Give Robshaw a break

1 October 2015 1:00 pm

Pity poor Chris Robshaw. England’s sturdy captain might have a knockout girlfriend and exceptional skills on the cappuccino machine, but…

Clashes of the titans

19 September 2015 8:00 am

A thumping physical confrontation testing mind, muscle and sinew to the ultimate degree, and from which there could only be…

Clashes of the titans

17 September 2015 1:00 pm

A thumping physical confrontation testing mind, muscle and sinew to the ultimate degree, and from which there could only be…

The right track

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Sebastian Coe’s new job as head of world athletics will be a heck of a lot easier thanks to the…

The right track

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

Sebastian Coe’s new job as head of world athletics will be a heck of a lot easier thanks to the…

Captain Cook proves good guys can triumph

22 August 2015 9:00 am

The roar of the Premier League is beginning to drown out everything else in sport (there’s even Friday night football…

Captain Cook proves good guys can triumph

20 August 2015 1:00 pm

The roar of the Premier League is beginning to drown out everything else in sport (there’s even Friday night football…

The edge of the Gobi desert, some 100km northwest of Beijing (Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty)

Champions of absurdity

8 August 2015 9:00 am

Jumping the shark isn’t yet an Olympic sport, but if it were the International Olympic Committee would be a shoo-in…

The edge of the Gobi desert, some 100km northwest of Beijing (Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty)

Champions of absurdity

6 August 2015 1:00 pm

Jumping the shark isn’t yet an Olympic sport, but if it were the International Olympic Committee would be a shoo-in…

Australia’s comeback kids

25 July 2015 9:00 am

I have never met an Aussie I didn’t like, but, crikey, their sporting indefatigability is exhausting. Don’t they ever give…

Australia’s comeback kids

23 July 2015 1:00 pm

I have never met an Aussie I didn’t like, but, crikey, their sporting indefatigability is exhausting. Don’t they ever give…

Kyrgios is surely just what tennis needs

11 July 2015 9:00 am

Well thank heaven for Nick Kyrgios. The lavishly inked, blinged and barbered Aussie is quite one of the most thrilling…