According to a story in the Daily Mail, primary school children in Dundee are having to sign a 17-clause contract before they can play football in the playground.(The 17 clauses are as follows:- I will not deliberate foul tackles I will not carry issues off the pitch to class or after school I will not […]

The odds of Leicester City winning the Premier League at the start of the 2015/16 football season were 5000:1. This means that gamblers thought the following things were more likely to happen:-2,500:1 - David Moyes to be an X Factor judge2,500:1 - Arsenal would sack Arsene Wenger and install Piers Morgan as boss2,000:1 - Kim […]

The balls used in men's and women's tennis are different. (They are the same size, weight and pressure: between 2½ and 2 5/8 inches (6.35 and 6.67 cm) in diameter and weighing between 2 and 2 1/16 ounces (57.7 and 58.5 grams) but balls used by men have an extra-duty felt covering, which increases air […]

15-year-old schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade, from the KC Gandhi High School, Kalyan, India, has become the first batsman to score 1000-plus runs in an innings in any form of cricket. (He reached 1000 runs in just 323 balls whilst batting against Arya Gurukul School in the Bhandari Cup (a tournament in India for under-16s). His score […]

Staying on a sport's theme, for those not familiar with Dennis Commetti, he is an Aussie Rules football commentator. This is why he is considered to be the best in the business "Scotty Cummings alone in the square, jumping up and down and waving his arms like they're playing My Sharona ..." "Farmer may have […]

Sledging is what cricketers call the mocking insults swapped between players out at the wicket.  It has long been part of the game, but you might be surprised at how ungentlemanly these bastions of sport can be. Shaun Pollock to Ricky Ponting: "It's red, it's round and weighs about five ounces." Ponting hit the next […]