By Nick Harris 9 March 2010 Britain’s most successful ultra-marathon runner has told sportingintelligence today that he is about to “step into the unknown” as he tries to become the first man in more than a decade to finish a 1,000-mile running race. William Sichel, 56, is an Englishman with Scottish roots who lives on […]

By Brian Sears 9 March 2010 English football crowds outside the Premier League are on course to defy the worst recession in decades and hit a 50-year high, with large credit due to the Championship table-toppers, Newcastle United, and their League One counterparts, Norwich City. According to statistical projections by sportingintelligence, crowds in the Football […]

8 March 2010 Sir Stirling Moss, 80, is recovering in hospital this evening after falling down a lift shaft at his home and breaking six bones, although his spirits are high enough for him to be joking about it. He, or rather an aide, has even posted a photograph of the lift in question on […]

By Nick Harris 8 March 2010 EXCLUSIVE The Indian Premier League’s bungled auction yesterday of two new franchises, on sale for at least $225m each (£149m), was not the total failure it initially appeared, sportingintelligence can reveal, with the IPL’s chairman, Lalit Modi, telling this website today that the IPL received three “valid” bids for […]

By Nick Harris 7 March 2010 Aston Villa’s transfer spending since the start of last summer has been bigger than assumed and has probably been close to £50m in that period. A note in the most recent accounts of Villa’s parent company, Reform Acquisitions Limited, which were released just before the weekend, says the “net […]

JOHN ROBERTS wrote for the Daily Express, The Guardian, the Daily Mail and The Independent, where he was the tennis correspondent for 20 years. He collaborated with Bill Shankly on the Liverpool manager’s autobiography, ghosted Kevin Keegan’s first book, and has written books on George Best, Manchester United’s Busby Babes (The Team That Wouldn’t Die) and Everton (The Official Centenary […]

6 March 2010 Michelle Obama, wife of the American president Barack, has again talked publicly about what a great game football (soccer) is. Unlike multiple politicians before her, she’s not claiming an affinity with a particular team to score electoral points. She’s just emphasising that footie is a good sport to pursue for fitness. If […]

By Nick Harris 6 March 2010 Martin Brundle has tipped Lewis Hamilton to come out on top in the team-mate power struggle with compatriot Jenson Button at McLaren during the forthcoming F1 season because Hamilton is “acrobatic” whereas Button “really struggles if the car’s not purring.” Brundle, a former Formula 1 driver who will be a key […]

By Nick Harris 6 March 2010 Dave Brailsford, the man who transformed Britain’s cyclists into the strongest track cycling nation in the world, believes his recent diversification into professional road racing could pay dividends as early as this summer with a win for Bradley Wiggins in the 2010 Tour de France. “The Tour De France […]

5 March 2010 The NFL’s salary cap does not exist from today, and nor is there any longer a lower limit to what teams can spend on wages. For those who don’t follow the NFL closely, there’s some background to the current extraordinary situation on the NFL website, while Reuters gives a short and simple […]