iBet: QPR look certain to win

Everyone has been waiting for QPR to have a ‘wobble’, but they sit proudly at the top of both the Championship and of the ten-match form table, with only one defeat (at in-form Millwall) and only five goals conceded in that period.

By Gareth Purnell | Sport | Monday, 4 April 2011 at 12:20 pm

Premier League review: Wayne Rooney showed all his traits when tearing into West Ham

And so this season of class and farce continues. There are not enough shelves in the British Library on which to store written documentation of a campaign riddled with such beauty and bedlam.

By Giles Lucas | Sport | Monday, 4 April 2011 at 12:14 pm

Tom Penders on the college basketball climax

Michael Kim speaks to former NCAA basketball coach Tom Penders about his predictions for the NCAA Final Four this weekend

By Michael Kim | Sport | Friday, 1 April 2011 at 2:29 pm

How India’s hero Sachin Tendulkar turned it around

There’s a lot to admire about Sachin Tendulkar: the grace of his batting; his longeveity; his fundamental decency as a human being despite being more scrutinised than perhaps any other sportsman in the world. And then there are all the runs.

By Tim Wigmore | Sport | Friday, 1 April 2011 at 2:20 pm

Championship preview: Tension escalates in the battle for promotion

With the Monarch of the League, Queens Park Rangers, away from the eyes of supporters until Monday, tomorrow’s spot-light falls on Norwich and Swansea as they wrestle for second place.
“Right, so we’re now getting down to the nitty-gritty end of the season,” wrote one Norwich follower, whose side sit nine points behind Neil Warnock’s Rangers [...]

By Giles Lucas | Sport | Friday, 1 April 2011 at 12:58 pm

iBet: Enjoy the madness at Peterborough

Peterborough v Bournemouth, tonight 7.45pm
Lay under 1.5 goals at 4.5 to one
You’ve got to love watching Peterborough. The Posh have played 19 games at home this season, and all of them have produced at least two goals. In fact only one of them has finished under the 2.5 goals line. This [...]

By Gareth Purnell | Sport | Friday, 1 April 2011 at 12:01 am

Fulham v Blackpool – expect a Thriller

Fulham play Blackpool at the weekend, and while the visitors have a reputation as the Premier League’s entertainers, expect them to be upstaged this Sunday.
If you hadn’t heard already, Fulham chairman Mohamed Al Fayed will be unveiling a statue of Michael Jackson shortly before the game. The Egyptian millionaire commissioned the effigy after the performer’s [...]

By Simon Rice | Sport | Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 1:38 pm

The soap opera that is English football

Oh how the English love a good struggle and a debate! Hats off to the media and all those involved in English football for keeping us interested in what was admittedly a wasted week of international football.
John Terry. Bless him! If not for him, papers wouldn’t have sold as much. Fabio Capello – he deserves [...]

By Varun Mathure | Sport | Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 12:30 pm

In it for the long run: why rock stars don’t run marathons

I was having dinner with friends a month or so ago, enjoying a glass of red wine with my meal, when one of them said ‘so you’re still drinking then?’
Now I’ll be honest, it hadn’t crossed my mind to stop. I’d obviously avoided drinking to excess as there are few things as awful as running [...]

By Jane Bainbridge | Sport | Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 11:59 am

iBet: Tottenham should have too much for Wigan

Wigan v Tottenham, Premier League, Saturday 3pm

Lay Wigan at 2.25 to one with Betfair
Not much to go at tonight and a good chance to look at the weekend’s football, with the Premier League back in action following all the recent internationals, and one bet jumps out at me off the coupon. Wigan have only won [...]

By Gareth Purnell | Sport | Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 12:01 am