What is podcastable? It is a question I can imagine having been circulated in some dressing or another at BBC board meetings. The attitude within Auntie seems to be just about everything at the moment. Perhaps the signs have been there for a while. They did after all rename their...
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Much is documented about Arsene Wenger’s cultural revolution at Arsenal. “We want our Mars bars” was the common refrain of his discontented squad after cleaning up their diets. It would represent a sea change in nutrition now no longer remarkable in the game. But the Frenchman was not just doing...
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For nearly two decades, Rafael Nadal has ruled Roland-Garros. The so-called ‘King of Clay’ has been effectively unconquerable on the tough red of Paris, so rarely ever overcome by its challenges. This time, however, is different. No one is too surprised. The injury problems have long loomed and threatened what...
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In a landmark step, paid contracts are being offered to Scotland’s women’s cricket team for the first time. Abbi Aitken-Drummond, Priyanaz Chatterji, Katherine Fraser, Lorna Jack, Ailsa Lister, Megan McColl, Orla Montgomery, Hannah Rainey and Ellen Watson will all take on pro deals. The move, aimed at helping the top...
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At last. 107 points. 117 goals. But it all came down to a small handful of plucky penalties for the record-breaking Notts County, who clinched a return to League Two with a 4-3 victory over Chesterfield on penalties from 1-1 in regular time. For all of the measured and skilful...
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Let’s go back just a few weeks. The Tour Championship, one of the World Snooker Tour’s marquee events, is taking place in Hull’s Bonus Arena. It’s an event for the creme de la creme of the game, featuring only the top eight players, and one which pulls in top TV...
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On Saturday, in the first darts Varsity between the two teams, Warwick defeated University of Birmingham 6-1. The match is the second Varsity that Warwick Darts Society have taken part in, having faced Coventry back in 2020. This time around, they faced much tougher opposition in Birmingham, who have become...
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Warwick will face off against the University of Birmingham on Saturday 22 April, in Warwick’s first darts Varsity match since 2020. Back then, Warwick got the better of the now defunct Coventry, but the team has since gone from strength to strength and asserted the university’s place as one of...
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After months of wrangling and years of debate, World Athletics (WA) has decided to ban transgender athletes from its female category. The decision from one of sport’s biggest global organisations comes after the issue of transgender participation engulfed a succession of bodies. World Rugby and World Swimming have already moved...
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The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) could be braced to welcome the return of Russian and Belarusian players to Wimbledon, according to reports. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, both Russian and Belarusian players were banned from competing in Wimbledon. The decision was however not welcomed by tennis’s...
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The power of sport to unify and inspire is unmistakable. But what about for a country in the depths of despair, a nation that even the UN concludes is on the ‘verge of an abyss’? It is the contradiction that Haiti’s qualification for the FIFA Women’s World Cup presents. At...
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At a recent indoor meet in Clermont-Ferrand in France, Sweden’s Armand Duplantis leaped to another pole vault world record feat. A sixth in the 23-year-old’s already illustrious career, it was yet another demonstration of his history-making excellence and dominance in the discipline. But did you hear about it? Probably not....
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In June, the publication of an independent review into historic abuse in British Gymnastics rocked a sport fundamental to many of Team GB’s 21st-century Olympics success stories. Yet, nearly a year on from the publication of Anne Whyte KC’s damning conclusions, the sport has yet to get a grip on...
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