Can you handle our sports quiz?
Monday 26 December 2011
Pit your wits against our question-master Jack Pitt-Brooke and try to figure out our fiendishly difficult festive teasers...
Snooker: Mark Allen may face disrepute charge for bad language
Tuesday 06 December 2011
Northern Irishman Allen was heavily critical of the decision to shorten the early rounds of the UK Championship, where he was a first-round victor over Adrian Gunnell on Monday.
Snooker: Allen attacks Hearn over 'darts factor'
Tuesday 06 December 2011
Mark Allen booked his place in the second round of the UK Championship in York yesterday then launched an attack on World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn, during which he suggested he should leave his post.
Robbie Williams gets darts lessons
Thursday 24 March 2011
Robbie Williams is receiving secret darts lessons from Phil Taylor to help him beat his Take That bandmates.
Matthew Norman: After the tornado, Murdoch will still be left standing
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Darts: Adams holds off dogged rookie to win world title
Monday 10 January 2011
Martin Adams prevailed after a thrilling duel with BDO World Championship debutant Dean Winstanley to secure his third title in last night's final at Frimley Green.
Howard Jacobson: The self-contempt needed to love darts
Saturday 08 January 2011
Darts: Adams blazes a trail into the last four
Saturday 08 January 2011
Defending champion Martin Adams reached the semi-finals of the BDO World Darts Championship at Frimley Green with a 5-1 win over Ross Smith.
Darts: Lewis hopes to have moved out of master's shadow
Wednesday 05 January 2011
Adrian Lewis has grown tired of being described as "Phil Taylor's former protégé". After taking his one-time practice partner's crown at the PDC world championship the 25-year-old hopes he will be recognised in his own right.
Darts: Nine-dart finish propels Lewis to maiden title
Tuesday 04 January 2011
Phil Taylor was only here as a spectator, but the legend of the greatest player in history lived on as his former protégé, Adrian Lewis, won the Professional Darts Corporation's Ladbrokes.com World Championship for the first time here last night. Lewis, another product of the Potteries hotbed that has produced a succession of world-class players, beat Scotland's Gary Anderson 7-5 in a final of the highest quality.
Darts: Lewis takes revenge for mentor’s defeat to set up Anderson duel
Monday 03 January 2011
Prince Harry was in the crowd here last night and today the historic venue will witness the coronation of a new king. Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis will both make their debuts in tonight's final as they chase the £200,000 prize on offer to the winner of the Professional Darts Corporation's Ladbrokes.com World Championship.
Hold The Back Page: 01/01/2011
Saturday 01 January 2011
It's a big weekend for...
Gary Anderson
Simon Whitlock, John Part and James Wade are all out, Raymond van Barneveld has reached the quarter-finals almost by default; the hopes of the "Anyone But Taylor" set at this year's World Darts Championship have been poured into a new vessel: Gary Anderson.
Darts: Taylor back on track to cruise past Laursen
Tuesday 28 December 2010
Phil Taylor eased his way into the third round of the PDC World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace as he recorded a comfortable straight-sets victory over Denmark's Per Laursen last night.







