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8 April 2010 British Swimming has unveiled a select group of Development Clubs as part of its provision of a world-class daily training environment for athletes in Britain. Five clubs earned Development status by right following analysis of club performances at the British Gas Swimming Championships this month in Sheffield. The successful clubs are Plymouth […]

8 April 2010 Novak Djokovic, the world No2 men’s tennis player, will try to win his first grass court title when he competes at the AEGON Championships this summer after confirming his entry today. Djokovic, a finalist at The Queen’s Club in 2008 and a Wimbledon semifinalist in 2007, joins three other top 10 players […]

By Nick Harris 5 April 2010 . Tiger woods is giving his comeback press conference at The Masters at Augusta National – highlights: On the galleries today: “They blew me away”. On the reception from the fans: “Touched me good.” On the injuries sustained in his car crash, not previously confirmed: “A busted lip and […]

29 March 2010 Rebecca Adlington, Britain’s swimming heroine of the Beijing Olympics and one of the big home hopes in the pool for London 2012, returned to form today at the British Gas national championships in Sheffield when she cruised to victory in the 200m ahead of Jazmin Carlin and Jo Jackson, her freestyle rivals […]

29 March 2010 ESPN will add exclusive coverage of the NFL’s ‘Monday Night Football’ to its TV schedules in the UK from September. Viewers of ESPN – which has been growing its pay-TV base by acquiring live Premier League rights in recent times – will be able to see 17 games per season. More here […]

29 March 2010 The headline findings from our Annual Review of Global Sports Salaries have been making more headlines than we could ever have imagined . . . on the BBC . . . in Russian . . .  in Korean . . . and in Russian again (like the pic!) . . . in […]

By Pete Wilson 29 March 2010 Briton’s foremost ultra-distance runner, William Sichel, is a former cancer patient who lives on the remote Orkney island of Sanday and makes a living hand-dyeing Angora wool to be made into clothes, including thermal underwear. His sporting life is not so conventional (and yes, we’ve cracked that joke before). […]

29 March 2010 . . . to those users who have been having trouble accessing the site at times through parts of yesterday evening (Sunday 28 March), and this morning. Due to demand and some coding problems, access has been intermittent for some users. Engineers are trying to fix the problem. Thanks for your patience, […]

By Nick Harris 26 March 2010 Since a week ago last Monday, William Sichel has been running around a 1km circuit of road at a disused airport outside Athens in an attempt to become the first man in more than a decade to finish a 1,000-mile running race. Now into its 12th day, the World […]

22 March 2010 The delayed auction of two new franchises for the Indian Premier League went ahead yesterday and confounded its critics by raising $703m (£469m) from the sale of franchises to billionaire Subrata Roy (who bought the Pune franchise for $370m) and Rendezvous Sports World (Kochi, $333m). Reports in The Times, The Indian Express […]