The man whose giant freak arms exploded

Back in the day, when my aunt and uncle owned a gym and I was a hormone-powered teenager, I decided that I wanted to get buffed-up, super-ripped and beefcakely, and started weight-training pretty heavily. Unfortunately, I was born to be a skinny...

Female fighter chokes reporter unconscious during interview

We journalists are known for occasionally putting ourselves in harm's way in the name of the job. I once had someone threaten to break both my legs in the course of a story, and the Angry Blonde was threatened with death during...

Tiger Woods and Roger Federer - both great, but who's the best?

Time limitations mean there's no links in today's post - just a question. In light of Roger Federer's win at the French Open yesterday - which in my mind makes him the greatest tennis player of all time -who is is the best athlete of this generation?...

Cricketer kills pigeon with throw, we get super slo-mo replays...

I've never made any secret of the fact that I don't particularly like cricket. Too stuffy, too toffy, not enough athleticism required. But if I were this unfortunate pigeon, killed by a throw from Jacques Rudolph in a recent Twenty20 game between Yorkshire...

My end of season awards: Goal of the season

With tears in my eyes and a heart heavier than Ivan Campo after a full english, I'm forced to acknowledge the end of the English football season. Of course, the end of the season usually brings awards - PFA, FA, UEFA all of that - but those...