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The Indian Premier League (IPL) is one of the most prestigious cricket tournaments from around the world. It is a…
Football is a sport which transcends the world. It is this passion for football that enables it to have a…
You might remember your parents were busy collecting sports cards during your childhood. Yeah, those printed cardboard cards might look…
You can’t have failed to notice that we are now part way the 2022 Winter Olympics. Teams from around the…
Some of the world’s most iconic individuals have been sportsmen and women. From the indefatigable Jesse Owens to the inimitable…
When Chris Wood’s move from Burnley to Newcastle United was confirmed last month, there must have been some mixed feelings…
Note (September 2026): This article was first written as a preview before the 2020 season; its team count, player details…
Even if you’re not a sports fan or even a football fan, you have probably heard recently that Spanish giants…
Most Liverpool fans were left grimacing after the Champions League group stage draw was made back in September. Fate had…
Note (September 2026): This list has been corrected: Brock Lesnar played American football, not soccer; Eddie Guerrero was American, not…
With the MLB awards schedule drawing ever closer, fans are already talking about who is the front-runner to win the…
About Sports
Cricket first, and unapologetically. The reference spine of this section is the tournament record: every IPL season and its runners-up, all thirteen ICC Cricket World Cups, and the complete T20 World Cup list, each kept current as tournaments finish.
Around that sits argument rather than news – whether Test cricket is being kept alive or kept on life support, and whether India should run a domestic T10 league. American sport appears too, mostly as the same kind of question: what makes a career like Tom Brady’s possible, and who the greatest baseball players really were.
It is not a results service and does not try to be. Match reports age badly; tournament records and arguments do not.