Summary of text messages I received from roseberrysdream last night ( Read more... )

Lance Armstrong making a comeback?

Update: Not according to the BBC anyway.

Another Update, 10 Sept: Official - Lance Armstrong is returning to competitive cycling with the goal of winning the Tour De France in 2009. Blimey.

From todays BBC Olympic blog: "If Phelps declared himself a nation, he would be eighth in the medal table ( Read more... )

The last man to finish the Tour de France gets the unofficial title of winner of the Lanterne Rouge.

Finishing last is not as easy as you might suppose.
The designation falls somewhere between insult and accolade. Mr. Vansevenant, who after Stage 18 sits in 150th place, some 3 hours and 45 minutes behind Mr. Sastre, is indeed the worst-placed ( Read more... )

In “The Year Of the Bump” Tottenham Hotspur have won the Carling Cup at Wembley!

I followed the match using a combination of Sky Sports News updates, Radio FiveLive and frantic texts with Emma. Claire and I were so nervous during the final few minutes I thought she might go into labour.

Kevin Keegan returns as manager to Newcastle.

The BBC’s minute-by-minute match report on the Newcastle/Stoke game last night made for entertaining reading…
1958: News in that King Kev has entered the building up in Newcastle - whether he arrived by sedan chair has yet to be confirmed. They’re now playing Football’s Coming Home inside St James’ ( Read more... )

There is, it's fair to say, something of a contrast in styles between Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather. Mayweather is brash and overconfident, and ahead of Saturday's fight he turned up to yesterdays press conference wearing diamond rings on every finger and a team of bouncers around him (why the self-proclaimed greatest boxer in the world would ( Read more... )

Yes, Steve McLaren should never have been made England manager in the first place, he is, at best, a good assistant coach at club level and totally out of his depth as a National team manager. Yes, the players are overpaid perennial underachievers who have never been as good as they think they are; technically Croatia were leagues ahead of us last ( Read more... )

With ticket prices reaching astronomical levels, messages of support have been pouring in for the England rugby team as tomorrow's World Cup Final approaches, including one from, er, the Sugababes.

"All of the Sugerbabes wish you luck... Do it for England, do it for the Sugerbabes."If that doesn't inspire the troops, nothing will. Do it for the ( Read more... )

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