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Bowled over... Indiana (not India) to build $6m cricket ground
Friday 05 July 2013
If you were to hear that a brand new cricket ground was being constructed in India, you’d think nothing of it – but Indiana?
Arison hands over Carnival tiller
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Micky Arison, the billionaire who masterminded the takeover of P&O's cruise ship business, has walked the plank at Carnival.
LeBron James takes place among the greats with magnificent Game Seven as Miami Heat beat San Antonio Spurs
Friday 21 June 2013
Heat win back-to-back titles
Manchester City rise above Real Madrid and Barcelona to top the global pay charts - but where does your club feature?
Tuesday 11 June 2013
The beaten FA Cup finalists pay over £100,000-a-week to their players on average
Nadal condemns destruction of 211 blood bags from doping investigation Operation Puerto that allows cheats to go unnamed
Saturday 04 May 2013
World number five Rafael Nadal has criticised the decision of a Spanish court to destroy more than 200 blood bags seized during Operation Puerto - and therefore allow those involved to remain nameless.
Remembering Justin Fashanu a different way, 15 years after his death
Thursday 02 May 2013
Complexity has been ironed out from the footballer's legacy
President Barack Obama makes call to Jason Collins after NBA star comes out as gay
Tuesday 30 April 2013
US President calls to offer support
NBA basketball player Jason Collins becomes most high-profile openly gay American sports star after 'years of misery'
Tuesday 30 April 2013
In a magazine article he wrote: 'I kept telling myself the sky was red, but I always knew it was blue'
The Last Word: Voters' lack of imagination makes players' award a farce
Saturday 27 April 2013
The limelight could glint upon literally the most disarming smile in sport
Kevin Garside: It might take the heat off if Alex Ferguson copied nakedness shown in the US
Sunday 10 March 2013
James stood in front of his locker bold as brass in his boxers
Basketball: NBA comes to Manchester
Tuesday 05 March 2013
American pro basketball will be stage in Manchester for the first time as the Philidelphia 76ers play Oklahoma Thunder in a global eight-team NBA pre-season tour.
The News Matrix: Tuesday 5 March 2013
Tuesday 05 March 2013
Author says it's hard to write about sex
A reason to feel sorry for Premier League footballers? Three of five players declare bankruptcy after retirement
Monday 04 March 2013
Footballers who have declared themselves broke after quitting the lucrative game include Keith Gillespie and Colin Hendry
The Last Word: Just a slam-dunk away from the goal of World Peace as Kim Jong-un becomes friends with Dennis Rodman
Saturday 02 March 2013
Some day we’ll see Terry at the Home Office, Beckham in the Elysée Palace
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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