A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit

Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull

1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town

Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties

“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”

At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world

It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays

Will new heroes arise in Paris, 100 years on?

A man motivated by the pinnacle or nothing at all

Cricket has always bent with the winds of change