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Baseball: 'Mr Perfect' Jeter joins the legends in 3,000-hit club
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Yankees slugger, and all-round nice guy, reaches rare milestone to confirm him as one of the all-time greats
David F Friedman: Film producer behind the 'nudie cuties', 'roughies' and 'splatter' genres
Saturday 14 May 2011
The self-proclaimed "mighty monarch of the exploitation world" David F Friedman produced more than 50 low-budget films that drew big audiences to US drive-ins and grindhouse cinemas throughout the 1960s and '70s.
Barcelona overtake New York Yankees as best paid sports team
Thursday 21 April 2011
Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid have overtaken baseball team New York Yankees as the best paid team in sport.
Baseball: Dodgers cut artless Giants down to size
Saturday 02 April 2011
The Los Angeles Dodgers capitalised on San Francisco's error-strewn performance to hand last season's World Series champions a 2-1 defeat on Major League Baseball's opening day on Thursday.
Baseball: Henry can pull Sox up but will Liverpool see readies?
Sunday 27 March 2011
When the Boston Red Sox' newly-signed outfielder Carl Crawford was presented to the media last December, he realised that he was without appropriately-coloured neckwear. Executive vice-president Sam Kennedy gave him a Liverpool tie, "thus merging Major League Baseball and Premier League", according to Peter Gammons, the respected baseball broadcaster.
From books to the box, Rushdie to write and produce TV show
Saturday 12 March 2011
There was a time when the giants of literature sneered at the small screen. But now Sir Salman Rushdie is moving from books to the box after signing up to write his first television drama.
First Night: Justin Bieber, National Indoor Arena, Birmingham
Saturday 05 March 2011
Bieber has landed – in a giant plastic ball...
Lee Child: Adventures of an over-reacher
Friday 03 December 2010
The author turned to fiction after losing his job in television. Today, he is a best-selling thriller writer. Andy Martin talks to him about his roots in Birmingham and his macho alter ego, Jack Reacher.
Baseball: San Francisco's 'misfits' walk among the giants with World Series win
Wednesday 03 November 2010
Ticker-tape parade awaits unlikely champions as the City by the Bay emerges from the baseball shadows
Will Hawkes: Fashion victims and Frisco, deep in the heart of London
Monday 01 November 2010
View From The Sofa: The World Series/ESPN
Baseball: Giant misfits make pitch for unlikely world glory
Wednesday 27 October 2010
San Francisco's rag-tag bunch, led by star pitcher Tim Lincecum, have high hopes as they play Texas in world series
American Football: Lincecum's clever pitching gives first blood to Giants
Monday 18 October 2010
San Francisco Giants' Tim Lincecum outduelled Roy Halladay in one of the most highly anticipated pitching battles in years as the Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-3 on Saturday in the opening game of the National League Championship Series.
Revealed: how new Liverpool owner's wife pestered her husband to buy
Monday 18 October 2010
Henry's team looking to increase revenues by being both smart and efficient rather than spendthrift
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