Gary Burns takes a look at Wimbledon and British tennis past, present and future and asks if we can host the finest Grand Slam why can’t we win it?

No international tournament is complete without the azzurri shirt. It is one of the most iconic garments the sport has to offer. This coming Sunday, at Euro 2008, the deep blues of Italy will match-up against the clashing red and gold of Spain - a kit, rather like the character of the Spanish team […]

One of the most remarkable sporting careers of the modern era is soon to draw to a close. Since his debut in 1985 for A.C. Milan, Paolo Maldini has been a consumate footballer, performing impossibly well with a peerless guile and panache for over twenty years. Maldini may well extend his remarkable era one more […]

Most footballers might be justifiably written off as knuckle-dragging, groupie-banging perma-adolescents, but there are a few, albeit a very few, who think on their feet, engage with the world around them and, for better or worse, use their unique position to express a range of political views.

 
You may not have noticed (though if you haven't, then you soon will) tennis shorts are a style must this season. See ya, big-butted baggy cargo shorts. Farewell, the absurdity of the 3/4 length trouser-short. If your inseam is longer than 4.5 inches this summer, you'd better be a skateboarding teenager or find a […]