Andy Roddick launched an interesting tirade about why tennis is not as popular as wrestling after being dumped out of the Western & Southern Open on Monday ...

Elena Baltacha took all of three sets to come through her first qualifying match at the BNP Paribas Open in California against an opponent ranked 500 places below her.

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The tale of the bobsled team from Jamaica who triumphed against the odds to compete at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics is embedded in pop culture more than a quarter of a century on. The story has ...

From the first days of motor racing, drivers have lived close to the edge. Thanks to marked improvements in safety standards, the number seriously injured and killed competing in the sport has ...

1901 The first use of the words grand prix to describe a race, the French Grand Prix at Le Mans. 1904 The formation of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), a non-profit association ...

Formula One (the formula in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must comply and was originally and briefly known as Formula A) can trace its roots back to the earliest ...

This is not terribly uncommon: Greg LeMond won the Tour de France in 1990 without winning a stage that year, while Oscar Pereiro did likewise in 2006 (he inherited victory when the origjnal winner, ...

Sport and controversy go together hand in hand. But rarely can an attempt to abuse the system have involved such serious stakes, namely the personal safety of a driver. Given that and the high-profile ...

Ashley Cole's decision to move to Chelsea from London rivals Arsenal in 2006 was one of the most controversial transfers of the Premier League era and saw William Gallas go the other way, along with a ...

Multi-discipline events like the decathlon offer the possibility of one person holding the world record for a split-second, before someone else, who has amassed more points earlier in the event, ...

The snooker world championship seems to be pretty much a British preserve. How many overseas players have won it? asked Michael Setters Since the snooker world championship moved to The Crucible in ...