There was history in the making today at Kempton Park racecourse when the King George VI Chase was won for the fifth time by Kauto Star.
Ruby Walsh was riding the popular 11-year-old in a race which it had dominated from 2006 for four successive years and continued it’s winning streak today [...]
One of England’s most favourite, gifted and probably most respected cricketers Basil D’Oliveira died on Saturday after many years of battling against Parkinson’s disease. He was aged 80.
Although a superb batsman on the field of play he probably will be remembered even more so for his determination and part that he [...]
English football history has seen another record broken today when the annual trading figures released by Manchester City showed that they had made a loss for their 2010-11 trading period of £194.9 million.
In the previous trading year of 2009-10 the City had also reported making a substantial £126 million operating loss.
In 2005 Premier League [...]
Having already lost four matches in the series the England cricket team found themselves chasing an Indian score of 271 in the fifth and final game being held at the Eden Gardens stadium in Kolkata.
The Indian innings had produced 271 runs for the loss of 8 wickets and [...]
Things were starting to look pretty bleak at the half time interval for home side Wolverhampton Wanderers as they were trailing 0-2 to Swansea and manager Mick McCarthy must have felt as though his team were heading for a possible six losses in a row but the second half of [...]
In a tension packed arena at the Oval cricket ground England completed a whitewash over India by winning the series 4-0 and looked every bit as good as the number one Test team in the world title that they have now inherited.
India’s performance overall in all of the four matches has [...]
After a fairly shaky start on the first day of the second Test match at Trent Bridge England seemed to improve in leaps and bounds with some overall wonderful batting peformances being followed by some devastating bowling.
England had seemed to be in problems after they had only managed to score 221 [...]
In a thrilling German Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton showed the sheer aggressiveness in his driving that made him the 2008 world champion as he doggedly drove his McLaren to secure a win which now puts him at third position in the championship table.
Hamilton, 26, had earned himself second position on the [...]
The dreams of a place in the Wimbledon men’s final for Andy Murray, and the nation, came to an end yesterday when the 24 year-old Scot lost his semi-final match against the Majorcan Rafael Nadal.
British number one Murray had gotten off to a fine start to win the first set 7-5 after Nadal faltered [...]
Andy Murray has secured his place in this years men’s semi-finals at Wimbledon after comprehensively defeating Feliciano Lopez of Spain and dominated the match to win in three straight sets 6-3 6-4 6-4.
Friday’s semi-finals will see Murray come up against Rafael Nadal who is defending champion and the world’s number one [...]
