JOSH LEVIN, of online magazine Slate.com, offers this forensic critique of the world’s best known and most loved sports magazine, but which he s…
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Category: Sports digest
Official: Gary Neville’s better than Best
It’s official: Gary Neville, the Manchester United and England right back, is a better footballer than George Best ever was. Or Gianfranco Zola.…
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Wellington ploughs into troubled waters
By Steven Downes Probably the greatest achievement by a British triathlete in the brief history of the sport seems likely to be overshadowed by the re…
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Congreaves calls for action now
The “Olympic Effect” is being felt by many sports in Britain, but not quickly enough in basketball for Andrea Congreaves, the former WNBA …
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Sporting upsets are no ‘disasters’
From John Inverdale, Daily Telegraph Sir Alex Ferguson was on his way to Athens for a Champions League game. Frankie Dettori was on the M1 heading for…
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A whole new ball game
As the lines blur between TV broadcasting and the online arms of traditional "old" media organisations, there will be more fights over who owns what r…
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It’s deja vu all over again
How did we get to the point when the one thing football misses most is a Dennis Pennis figure of its own? The man who actually asked Jeffrey Archer, "…
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Britain has abandoned the Gold standard
Ahead of the athletics World Championships, which begin in Osaka this weekend, Steven Downes explains why, in all probability, 400-metre runner Christ…
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What are sportswriters for?
Prof Lincoln Allison considers himself a sportsman. He does not like sportswriters, “the exact opposite of the sportsman”, he says. Does h…
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‘There is a line and he stepped over it’
Less than a month before England begin the defence of the rugby World Cup, David Walsh, in the Sunday Times, interviewed the man who might have been l…
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