Financial strife fails to dim smiles at high-flying Rayo Vallecano
This is a club that, despite all it's off-the-field financial problems, is currently flourishing in ...
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Hertha Berlin and the Skibbe saga – a depressing tale
Perhaps, in a few decades time, some German writer will transform Michael Skibbe's excruciatingly br...
Top 14: Day of reckoning looms for Racing Metro
By the middle of Wednesday afternoon we should have the first indication of what lies ahead for Raci...
Steve Bunce on Boxing: Chisora the latest in a long line of British underdogs
14 February 2012 12:00 AM
During the last 60 years 14 British boxers have fought for a recognised and accepted version of the world heavyweight title against a variety of legendary and anonymous world champions at locations all over the world.
Cycling: GB take another four golds in LA
13 February 2012 12:00 AM
Great Britain have won four more gold medals at the Para-Cycling Track World Championships at the Home Depot Velodrome in Los Angeles.
Squash: Matthew wins epic title battle
13 February 2012 12:00 AM
Nick Matthew prevailed in the historic men's British National Championship final between the top two players in the world when he beat James Willstrop in an 81-minute display of dazzling, world-class squash at the National Squash Centre in Manchester yesterday.
Boxing: Klitschko is ready to unleash his political clout
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Ukrainian faces 10th defence of his heavyweight crown against Britain's Chisora but these days his mind is more on fighting for democracy in his homeland
Inside Lines: FA facing another leading question over 'captain' Becks
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Fabio Capello is not the only manager with issues over the captaincy of a national team.
Sport on TV: Out of Africa comes a Bellamy – Craig, of course, not David
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Is there really nothing else going on in the world? The 'Arry and Fabio show led all the news bulletins, then you tune in for the highlights of the African Cup of Nations semi-finals (ITV4, Wednesday) and they're talking about England too. Never mind about Zambia's glorious Copper Bullets, who's going to be next in our tabloids' firing line?
Something For The Weekend: QPR, the Scorpion King and the quiz
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
It's squeaky bum time for...
Queen's Park Rangers
Mark Hughes, entrusted with keeping QPR in the top flight, has thus far failed to spark the Rs into life, having won just two of his six games in charge.
Cycling: Cavendish crashes in final sprint
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
With two impressive stage wins already in his saddlebag, Mark Cavendish had seemed unstoppable in this year's Tour of Qatar – until he suffered a major crash and went flying over his bike's handlebars at 70kph (44mph) in the final stretch of the last day's racing.
Cycling: Spain spitting mad at Contador skit
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
Still reeling from the impact of Alberto Contador's two-year ban, the Spanish government has complained to the French Ministry of Sport about a series of skits about doping on a Canal Plus show, which featured puppets of Spanish athletes including Rafael Nadal and Contador.
After Contador's drug shame, French TV satire raises Spanish hackles
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
France's genius for getting up the noses of its neighbours has switched– temporarily, no doubt – away from the Channel and towards the Pyrenees.
NBA: Luol Deng becomes first Briton to be selected for All-Star Game
10 February 2012 12:19 PM
Luol Deng has become the first British player to be selected for the NBA All-Star Game.
Cycling: Two-year ban as past catches up with Ullrich
10 February 2012 12:00 AM
As if the last week in cycling has not been turbulent enough, with Spanish rider Alberto Contador's ban for two years and a federal investigation into Lance Armstrong's former team being dropped, Germany's 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich was yesterday given a two-year suspension for blood doping.
Taekwondo: Stevenson is Games doubt
10 February 2012 12:00 AM
The world champion Sarah Stevenson's participation in the Olympics is in doubt after she underwent surgery yesterday to repair cruciate ligament damage sustained at a recent training camp in Mexico.
Boxing: Khan gets May date for Peterson
10 February 2012 12:00 AM
Lamont Peterson has agreed to a rematch with Amir Khan in Las Vegas in May, the 25-year-old Bolton fighter's camp said last night.
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