Sports
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world