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Who Has Spent the Most Weeks at Number One in Tennis?
By the time he finally hangs up his racket, Novak Djokovic could have an entire chapter dedicated to him in the Guinness Book of Records. But that time doesn’t look to be coming up any time soon, with...
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Hayley Turner: Five Milestones from the Jockey’s Amazing Career
Since 1995 and at the time of writing, only 33 jockeys have smashed through the 1,000 winners ceiling. And now Hayley Turner has joined them, becoming the first female rider to surpass the milestone in...
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Has an Englishman Ever Won the European Golden Shoe?
For strikers, there is no better feeling in football than scoring goals. Sure, winning trophies is nice to celebrate with your teammates, but if you hooked up a frontman to a lie detector and asked...
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Who is Football’s Dirtiest Ever Player?
From the ‘beautiful game’ in English speaking countries to ‘jogo bonito’ in the sport’s spiritual home, Brazil, fans have long celebrated the artistry of football through suitably idyllic nicknames....
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Is it Time for Football to Introduce the Sin Bin?
There’s a feeling that ill-discipline in football is getting out of control. How often do we see swarms of players from both teams surrounding the referee when a flashpoint occurs on the pitch? They...
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Can a Footballer Refuse to Play for Their International Team?
When it was revealed that the 2022 World Cup would be heading for Qatar, the only people celebrating were Qataris and the FIFA officials that were paid bribes to vote for them as hosts….allegedly. The...
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Is the Number of Goals Scored in the Premier League Increasing?
A seven-goal thriller, read the headlines as Arsenal struck a 97th minute winner to break Luton Town hearts in December. Once upon a time, seven goals in a single Premier League game would have raised...
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The Evolution of T20 Cricket: Where Next for Cricket’s Final Frontier?
Of all the major sports played around the world, cricket is perhaps the only one still ruled by traditionalists and puritans – those with a sense that the old way is still the best way. That explains...
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Which Sports Has the Most BBC Sports Personality of the Year Winners?
The contenders for the 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) have been announced and the diverse list features sportspeople from cricket (Stuart Broad), horse racing (Frankie Dettori),...
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Why Isn’t the Club World Cup More Popular?
If you were to line up 100 people and ask them to name the most important competition in football, the majority would almost certainly say the World Cup – the international tournament that transcends...
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What is Manchester United’s Worst Premier League Finish?
Image Credit: Iris Chase, flickr There are some theorists and thinkers who believe that life is simply a series of seven-year cycles, in which we suffer successes and pain, experience significant...
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PGA Tour vs LIV Golf: What Happens Next?
The traditional curtain-raiser each year on the PGA TOUR is the Tournament of Champions (since rebranded as The Sentry), which brings together all of the players that had won an event the prior season....
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What are the Biggest Sponsorship Deals in Sport as Tiger Woods and Nike’s...
It will endure as one of the most iconic images in sport – Tiger Woods hunting down a major tournament during Sunday’s final round bedecked in a red Nike t-shirt. That will sadly now be a thing of the...
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Why Doesn’t the UK Produce More World Class Tennis Players?
You don’t need to be a writer blessed with Shakespearean prose to write headlines about British tennis players at the Grand Slam events: disappointment, crashed out and early exit are just some of the...
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Which City Has Hosted the Most F1 Races?
There has been a modern trend in many sports to broaden the horizons and try to tap into new global markets and audiences – unsurprisingly, those countries with lots of money have been highest on the...
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Is Frankel the Best Racehorse Ever?
These days, when talk turns to Frankel its about his remarkable success rate as a breeding stallion – he has produced dozens of progeny, with many of them going on to win big races in their own right....
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The Game of Games: How Has the Super Bowl Changed Over the Years?
You can call it the ‘Game of Games’, the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’ or ay other snappy moniker….just don’t call it the Super Bowl. It’s the most-watched sporting event in North America and second only to...
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Marathon World Record List: How Has the Fastest Time Evolved?
There was a huge outpouring of emotion when it was announced that Kelvin Kiptum and his coach had tragically lost their lives in a road accident. As well as the human loss to his family, friends and...
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How Much Does Weight Really Matter in Horse Racing?
Around 6-8 weeks prior to the Grand National each year, the trainers and connections of horses with a ‘soft’ entry into the race enjoy a slap-up lunch as they find out how their horse has been treated...
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Has Bazball Been a Success or Failure for English Cricket?
Would you rather win at all costs or lose with style and panache? It’s an interesting question and one that idealists will answer with the latter option – pragmatists, meanwhile, would suggest that...
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