By Gary Hopkins 26 June 2010 A historic day in American soccer lies ahead today with the possibility that long-standing TV viewing records for the sport in the USA will tumble. When the USA play Ghana today at 2.30pm Eastern Time on a Saturday afternoon (7.30m in the UK and 8.30pm is South Africa), and […]

By Nick Harris 25 June 2010 The world No1 snooker player John Higgins and his business partner Pat Mooney will find out next week what disciplinary charges they will face as a result of match fixing allegations made against them last month by the News of the World. The paper alleged in its edition on […]

ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has the dubious honour of following British players to Grand Slam qualifying from time to time as part of her professional duties. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she went […]

By Nick Harris 24 June 2010 The Queen visited the Wimbledon tennis championships today for the first time since 1977, amid heightened security. But sportingintelligence can reveal that although the royal day out required months of meticulous preparation, the occasion did not cost any significant sum more than would be spent on a typical day […]

By Jonnie Baker 22 June 2010 I do try to keep my rambling nonsense fairly light, a froth of nothing to waste your time with before forgetting it completely in favour of the price of plums or why that lightbulb tastes like caramac. But Hell’s teeth – did you see that barrel of arse on […]

* SARAH HAMES is a lawyer by education but swapped the bar for the piste, then PR. She knows her sport from the inside, the offside and blind side, with a portfolio stretching from the hallowed corridors of the All England Club to the expanses of the Southern Ocean… . . . . . By […]

By Nick Harris 21 June 2010 The match between Uruguay and Mexico in Group A at the World Cup in South Africa on Tuesday will be a draw according to the global betting markets, which have seen an unprecedented amount of cash laid on that outcome. There is no suggestion of a fixed result between […]

By Nick Harris At Wimbledon 21 June 2010 The six-time Wimbledon champion, Roger Federer, has admitted he thought he was going to lose his first-round match today at this year’s tournament after falling two sets down to the Colombian outsider, Alejandro Falla. At one stage, in arrears by two sets to one and with Falla […]

By Nick Harris 18 June 2010 A second analysis of the News of the World video purporting to show the world No1 snooker player, John Higgins, agreeing to lose frames for cash has concluded that sections of the film have been ‘pasted together’, leading to a misrepresentation of events. A forensic musicologist, using specialist equipment […]

18 June 2010 Can you identify the sporting arena? We take an aerial view of a topical ball park, football stadium, marathon course, golf course, Games venue, race track, iconic arena, athletic theatre (some literally theatres), pitch, park, stretch of water or wherever else sport takes place. And we ask you to identify it with the […]