Selecting infamous Freddie would be a gamble

11:20am Friday 9th May 2008

UNLIKE his great friend Steve Harmison, Freddie Flintoff is not known for suspecting "they've all got it in for me."

Can big three return to the top?

10:39am Friday 25th April 2008

THE trio of North-East sportsmen who seem to attract the most headlines are Michael Owen, Jonny Wilkinson and Steve Harmison, mainly because we long for them to return to their previous summits.

IPL changes the picture

8:59am Friday 18th April 2008

IF you can't beat em , join'em. That looks like being the ECB's response to the Indian Premier League, which starts today, and it will be another brick out of the wall which separates cricket from the dumbed-down world beyond the boundary.

Unfair on athletes to turn up the heat on China now

9:15am Friday 11th April 2008

NO MATTER how often they ride their bikes, or profess their love for Chelsea or Partick Thistle or Accrington Stanley, those of a political bent rarely have the faintest concept of the importance of sport.

April 4, 2008

11:02am Friday 4th April 2008

IT IS said that an expert is someone who learns more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

Harmison wide of the mark

8:52am Friday 28th March 2008

IT was quite a coincidence that Marcus Trescothick should make the rather pointless statement about his retirement from international cricket on the same day as Steve Harmison dubbed Geoff Boycott "a waste of space."

March 21st, 2008

9:06am Friday 21st March 2008

WHEN Sunderland's £20m aquatic centre officially opens on April 18 it will be swimming against the tide of pool closures. It will be the only 50- metre pool between Sheffield and Edinburgh, while work has just begun at Uxbridge on the first competition-sized pool to be built in London for 40 years.

Problems on pitch – not at office

9:14am Friday 14th March 2008

ACCORDING to a picture caption in The Times, Jonny Wilkinson had a bad day at the office on Saturday. And according to Andrew Strauss, writing his diary column in The Sunday Telegraph, last Friday was a tough day at the office.

March 7th, 2008

9:15am Friday 7th March 2008

AS WE await the sound of leather on willow on our village greens, the discordant ringing of cash tills in India grows ever louder.

Can Woodgate survive London?

8:56am Friday 29th February 2008

WHAT with the Oscars, and Spurs winning the Carling Cup, it seems to have been quite a week for celebration. For everyone except Gazza, that is.

More ...