This Sporting Life
Freddie’s finest over
Five balls, four minutes, three untouchable deliveries, two lbw appeals and one priceless wicket
Rolling the dice
If Martí’s such a brilliant manager, how come he only won one of the season’s first 15 games?
The FA’s passion-killer
FA rules this season protect poor over-stretched bigger clubs with huge squads and budgets
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
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
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
