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I have just got off the phone with BT “customer services” in South Shields and, as usual with BT, I am fuming. I decided to check my latest BT bill online – I opted for paperless bills many months ago – only to discover I am being charged £6 a month for access to BT Sport. This is odd, as I never watch it, and nor did I ever agree…

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Don’t count out Ryan Howard just yet. The former National League MVP may be 37 years old and unemployed for the first time in his major-league career, but he’s not ready to walk away either. That was evidenced in a new video posted by Whistle Sports titled ‘No Days Off.’ The video takes us behind the scenes in Howard’s rigorous offseason training, which his training partner says is aimed at…

Everybody loves a good prank, and few could argue the prank Kenta Maeda recently pulled on a youth baseball team in Japan was anything less than glorious. During an appearance on a Japanese game show, the Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander channeled the “Uncle Drew” character created by Cleveland Cavaliers star Kyrie Irving, meaning he dressed as an old man with designs on schooling some baseball hopefuls. Check it out. If…

Unveiling the survey and the blueprint, Sarah Troughton, the SCSTG’s chairman, said: “Our vision for Scotland’s fishing, shooting and stalking industry is that it will become the global country sport tourism destination of choice known for its sustainable, premium quality and diverse Scottish offering, unsurpassed by any other country in the world.” The report said the industry’s strengths included the heritage and long tradition of country sports in Scotland, its…

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The rivalry between #CR7 and Barcelona’s Lionel Messi has gone back and forward for close to a decade since the two players finished second and third respectively in the voting for the 2007 Ballon d’Or. The intense rivalry has also been played out through the lens of their respective clubs, Real Madrid and Barcelona and to a lesser extent their countries, Portugal and Real Madrid. Each has pushed the other…

It’s probably not well known but Africa has been represented at every Winter Olympics since 1984. Morocco and Algeria are some of the most regular participants these days. South Africa did take part as early as the 1960 games in Squaw Valley, USA, but that was during apartheid, and it was subsequently banned from participation till 1994. Since then it’s taken part in every games except the last one in…

Not long after Jay Rodriguez trotted onto the field for his Southampton debut in 2012, he quickly became one of England’s brightest young prospects. He went on to make close to 80 first team appearances and earned his first England cap over the next two years when, at the tail end of 2013-14 season, his career was totally derailed by a horrific knee injury. As his teammates were becoming staples in the England team…

Washington University on Friday suspended the men’s soccer team for comments about the women’s team that were “degrading and sexually explicit.” The university said the comments—which were reported by members of the women’s team on Wednesday—were made in an online document from 2015, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The university is the latest in a series of schools to suspend athletic teams over lewd or offensive comments, often about female…

Don’t count out Ryan Howard just yet. The former National League MVP may be 37 years old and unemployed for the first time in his major-league career, but he’s not ready to walk away either. That was evidenced in a new video posted by Whistle Sports titled ‘No Days Off.’ The video takes us behind the scenes in Howard’s rigorous offseason training, which his training partner says is aimed at…

Andy Murray capped a glorious year, in which he lifted the Wimbledon title, stormed to Olympic gold and became the first British tennis player to reach No 1 in the world, by winning Sports Personality of the Year for a record third time. Murray, a massive 1-7 on favourite with bookmakers beforehand, beat the gold medal-winning triathlete Alistair Brownlee into second place, with 58-year-old showjumper Nick Skelton, who became the…

Don’t count out Ryan Howard just yet. The former National League MVP may be 37 years old and unemployed for the first time in his major-league career, but he’s not ready to walk away either. That was evidenced in a new video posted by Whistle Sports titled ‘No Days Off.’ The video takes us behind the scenes in Howard’s rigorous offseason training, which his training partner says is aimed at…

A woman got to relive her baseball glory days and it’s basically the real-life A League Of Their Own. The foundation Wish of a Lifetime just granted former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) star Mildred “Meach” Meacham the chance to spend a day talking all things baseball and it’s a reminder that women can be just as passionate about sports as their male peers. Now 92, Meacham played in…

Andy Murray became the first three-time winner of the BBC award, with fellow Olympic gold medallists Alistair Brownlee and Nick Skelton second and third Report: Murray wins Sports Personality of the Year 2016

They are tipped for big honours in the New Year’s Honours list. And Jason Kenny and Laura Trott led the glamour as they arrived at the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Awards at Birmingham’s Genting Arena on Sunday. The Rio Olympic cyclists, who married in a secret ceremony in September, turned heads in their glamorous cocktail attire as the put on a loved-up display at the prestigious awards show…

BRITISH sports stars got more than involved in the Icelandic Thunderclap at the Sports Personality of the Year award…even though Iceland dumped England out of the Euros in most embarrassing result in their history.  The Iceland national team made the viking war chant world famous after their surprise run in the Euros, with the supporters using the thunderclap to cheer on their team and intimidate the opposition. British sports stars…

Media playback is not supported on this device Overseas Sports Personality of the Year American gymnast Simone Biles has won the 2016 BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award. The 19-year-old broke new ground with a series of dazzling routines as she secured four gold medals at the Rio Olympics. Victory in the floor event added to her all-around, vault and team titles. Described by some observers as the…

The youngest head coach in the NFL and the Miami Dolphins’ oldest position player (with apologies to 38-year-old Dolphins long snapper John Denney) deserve some attention in the postseason awards. Head coach Adam Gase (age 38) and pass rusher Cameron Wake (age 34) are having terrific seasons, and they were big reasons why the Dolphins overcame a slow start to take care of business Saturday night, 34-13, over the downtrodden New…

2.38pm EST14:38 The focus is now on Cox and Storey, two of the most extraordinary athletes on this, or any shortlist. Cox won golds and set two world records in two sports – athletics and cycling – just two years after a stroke led to a diagnosis of MS. Storey, meanwhile, is nothing less than a gold medal machine – two golds in Rio made her Britain’s greatest female Paralympian,…