You can try this at home - and set a sporting world record

AS in all professional sports, the chances of making it to the highest level of basketball are hopelessly slim. Aside from the usual barriers of athleticism, talent and mental strength, it also helps to be freakishly tall - and it's...

Proposal at hockey game goes badly wrong...

IT probably seemed like a good idea at the time. An ice hockey fan takes his girlfriend to a game at a famous old arena and uses the giant screen hanging above the ice to pop the question - then sits back and waits for an emotional response in the...

Smacking Robbie Savage in the face, plus Mike Tyson gets his dance on

IF you're any kind of football fan, you will have a view on Robbie Savage - and I bet it's not complimentary. Something about him just winds fans up, be it the flowing golden hair, the silly accent, his yellow Lambo, his habit of hurling himself...

When kids attack - on ice with sticks

Despite being a rabid fan of almost every sport you can name (even extreme dodgeball), I've never really got on with ice hockey. That is until recently, when my habit of flicking from any channel directly to ESPN whenever the Angry Blonde leaves the room...

Football commentator goes insane, studio pundits start dancing...

THEY love their football in Italy, especially in Milan. So, when Jose's mighty Inter plucked incredible victory from the jaws of defeat this weekend, both the Milan commentator and his aged studio-based chums lost the plot a little....

Breast implants and broken arms - welcome to sport in 2010...

Ah, the first post of a new decade. And we have already been treated to one of the sports stories of the year, one which I'm fairly sure is unprecedented in the fabled pantheon of human athletic achievement. The facts are these - Australian double world...

Farewell to 2009 - the year of the sporting cheat

AS quickly as it all started, it’s over. Stomachs distended from the unnecessary calories, heads a little fuzzy from the surfeit of booze and turkey leftovers creating that familiar post-yule odour around the house – I do hope your Christmas was everything...

My sporting Xmas wishlist for 2010 - please take heed Mr Wenger and friends...

THERE’S no getting away from it. The snow has been falling, shopping is hellish and the festive season is hurtling towards us at warp speed Bolt. Cue hundreds of football games in a matter of days, a darts-fest on TV, an American sports bonanza on...

So, you want to be a fighter - this might put you off

MIXED martial arts, or MMA, is the fastest-growing sport in the world and regularly sees supremely-gifted athletes test their skills against each other in generally competitive, entertaining and somewhat awe-inspiring fights. This battle, however, was...

Tiger Woods crash - the best video you will see this year...

So, Tiger Woods had a crash. But, now that we know the golfing god is alright, the question that the world is asking is - what happened? This video suggests a couple of scenarios -with animation, in case your imagination is not firing today. One is the...

Six-year-old boy introduces team-mates to PAIN!

AS I hurtle at a worrying pace towards my 30th birthday, I'm struggling to remember being six years old. I am, however, sure that I was pretty rubbish at sport at that age -and definitely nowhere nears this lad's level. Pity the team-mates of Nyrel Sevilla....

Yes, Thierry Henry handled the ball. Get over it. And Roy Keane agrees with me!

So, the plucky Republic of Ireland will not play in next year's World Cup after that nasty man Thierry Henry blatantly handled the ball before setting up the goal which set Irish eyes a-crying. Zut alors! And the Gunner reject even had the cheek to admit...

The world's most violent female footballer and quickest-ever goal....

I'm all for a bit of contact in a football match - players these days are far too protected and willing to fall at the mere suggestion of a tackle. However, is this a step too far? In a recent game against Brigham Young University, New Mexico defender...

Marlon King: An odious waster who should be banned from football for life

I like to consider myself pretty liberal, and I'm all for giving people who've made mistakes a second chance. When that person is Wigan striker Marlon King though, I'm afraid I get rather more right-wing. King, for those who don't know - and there surely...

The drought is over - I GUARANTEE that Ipswich Town will win on Saturday

THIS is not an easy thing for me to write, and I do so after much soul-searching - but I guarantee that Town will finally clinch that elusive first league win by beating Derby County at Portman Road on Saturday. I say this not as a deluded Town follower...