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September 3, 2010

Sport

Sports News

Soccerettes descend on Scotland for a very different World Cup

For most of us, the prospect of taking a month long trip to South Africa this summer to attend the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals remains nothing more than a dream. However, footie fans can now take heart from the announcement this week that the FRijj Swamp Soccer World Cup is coming to the UK…


University Sport General

Students Encouraged To Make Their Mark On British Performances In 2012

While most of us cannot aspire to winning Olympic or Paralympic gold on home soil in London in two year’s time, UK-based students still have a once in a lifetime opportunity to contribute to Great Britain’s success at this momentous sporting occasion.


Latest Sports Features

London 2012 mascots launched to world

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today unveiled its Olympic and Paralympic Mascots – Wenlock and Mandeville.


Amir Khan – The Cream of Bolton

Amir Khan has become somewhat of a national hero since his heroics at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. In the six years that have followed, he has become World Champion, set up a series of local charities and is now preparing for the biggest fight of his life under the stewardship of legendary Oscar De La Hoya. Charles Whitworth took some time out with Bolton’s favourite son at the Skills North West Event at the Bolton Arena.


Meeting David Beckham

James Davies chats to the former England captain and footballs biggest star at The Home Depot Center- home of the Los Angeles Galaxy- as he prepares for the World Cup and limbers up for, potentially, the season of his life...he’s ‘Beck’ to his best.


Interview with Sir Bobby Charlton

It's not often you get to meet a living legend, but for a whole generation of English football fans my last interview was exactly that. Sir Bobby Charlton, a member of the England World Cup winning team of 1966 is someone who has done it all.


“Muma’s whipping meant I didn’t end up like Tyson"

After being raised in the “ghetto”, Evander Holyfield recalls his incredible journey and how his “Muma’s whippings” meant he didn’t end up like Tyson, the man who infamously bit off and spat out a chunk of his ear, and the ‘animal’ he is about to face once again in this years biggest bout.


Interview with Lord Sebastian Coe

He may have won gold at the Olympics, but is Lord Sebastian Coe suffering sleepless nights over the awesome responsibility of bringing the games to London?


Interview with Joe Calzaghe

Joe Calzaghe, ‘The Pride of Wales’ and winner of this years BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, has proved himself one of Britain’s greatest fighters after beating Denmark’s Mikkel Kessler, by unanimous decision, in his native Wales, maintaining his 17 year unbeaten record.