With a new Formula 1 season beginning on the 14th March in Bahrain, I have been mulling over the latest set of rule changes, and how they will affect the racing. The major difference in 2010 of course will be the refuelling ban – pit stops will only be for tyres. However, my mind was cast back to...

On 6 May 2007 Kim Clijsters announced her immediate retirement from the game of tennis. A year later, her compatriot and world no. 1 Justine Henin followed suite, to the shock and disappointment of fans across the world. Between them they had won...

The machine gun attack on the Togo football team bus, killing three and wounding two, is the latest miserable day to record in the heavily blemished diary of world sport. Hostility has frequently found its way into the newspapers via sporting events and the genuine possibility that Emmanuel Adebayor, a Premiership...

Lee Westwood’s caddie: for years he had to carry the clubs of a close but no cigar character; now his boss may well be ready to go all the way. He’s yet to win a major, but Westwood has come about as close as you can get, missing out by one shot at this year’s Open. But since that disappointment at Turnberry, Westwood has taken his game to next level, playing some stunning golf to win the Dubai World Championship and with that...

The Haye vs Valuev fight promoters: When some guy called David fights a seven foot giant, the ‘David vs Goliath’ tagline writes itself. And it’s even better for the promoters when the outcome remains the same as David beat Goliath, sorry Nikolay, at the weekend in Nuremberg. Looking at the pre-fight photos, it was easy to feel distinctly worried for the relatively tiny (albeit six foot three) David Haye, as the enormous, 22 stone Valuev towered

Jenson Button awoke on Monday as the Formula One World Champion – a morning he has longed for since the age of eight. And as surely as the 29 year old will suffocate under press commitments over the next few months, eight year old karters at the top of their own podiums will, as of Sunday, be referred to...

Jenson Button – after weeks of questions, criticism and frustration, Button finally stumbled over the line to become the new F1 World Champion. The Englishman very nearly...

Luton Town began this football season as reigning champions of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy. Yet, by virtue of their relegation from the Football League, they will not be allowed to defend their title, as the competition is restricted to clubs in Leagues One and Two. Without its previous victors however, the Johnstone's Paint trophy will be stripped of its value in 2009/10. In 2005

If it ain’t broke… Firstly, the much maligned KERS (Kinetic Energy Reduction System) was introduced in an attempt to save on energy output by storing some of the car’s energy to use for a later power surge. However, fast-forward four races....

I look at my watch. It’s 4.55pm on a Saturday afternoon and my heart is pounding. Usual for many football fans, you might think, but the season proper hasn’t started yet: I’m at Wembley for the Charity Shield encounter (or pre-season warm-up, as it’s otherwise known) between Chelsea and Manchester United; Wayne Rooney has just equalised, and...

Barring one night at Wembley when England took their sweet revenge over Croatia to book their place at next year’s World Cup, the summer of 2009 will not go down as being a particularly memorable one. At least, not for the right reasons. Crowd trouble, diving, transfer embargos and player misconduct have been taking most of the headlines, but perhaps even worse