The ice-cool Swedish champion Bjorn Borg against the brash John McEnroe who was snapping at his heels for the crown of the world's best player. Borg's four-year reign at Wimbledon seemed over when the ...

Cardiff City boss Dave Jones has been named as the Championship's manager of the month for August. The Bluebirds have collected 13 league points from a possible 15 - beating Barnsley, Coventry, Leeds ...

Queen's "We Are The Champions" blares out in the Red Bull garage and engineers and mechanics start an Abu Dhabi karaoke. Think there will be a massive party with those boys. Oh... hang on it's on ...

5: Atlantic City, USA, Paulie Malignaggi bt Herman Ngoudjo by unanimous decision (IBF light-welterweight). 10: Osaka, Japan, Hozumi Hasegawa bt Simone Maludrotto by unanimous decision (WBC ...

The Liverpool rearguard is one of the meanest around, but their defending regularly comes under scrutiny with boss Rafael ...

In a park in the Latvian capital Riga, a small group of protesters gathers, all Russian, some wearing paper hats inscribed with the word "Alien". Latvian police carry out a small, bureaucratic piece ...

The Czech Republic came from 2-0 down to win an enthralling game with Holland and go through to the quarter-finals. The Dutch took the lead through a Wilfred Bouma header from a Arjen Robben free-kick ...

Ireland is preparing to mark 100 years since Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses is set - 16 June 1904. But why is Joyce - and Ulysses in particular - continually held up as such a ...

Test cricket, unlike most team sports, does not have tactical substitutions. The International Cricket Council (ICC), the sport's governing body, had introduced a 10-month trial in July 2005 to use ...

Luis Figo has become the world's most expensive footballer after quitting Barcelona for Real Madrid in a £37m deal. Figo was one of the stars of the recent Euro 2000 championships, in which he helped ...

Rangers manager Paul Le Guen has left the club by mutual consent. Chairman David Murray said: "Having met with Paul it was clear that in the interests of the club we agreed jointly to him stepping ...

Emmanuel Adebayor scored twice as Arsenal came from behind to beat Spurs and go top of the Premier League. Gareth Bale curled in a 15th-minute free-kick to put Tottenham ahead before Paul Robinson ...