Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy's Jewish Jocks features some real life He-Menschen, but also a host of anti-jocks: tennis's first transexual player and the world record hot dog competition eater

'Germans longed for Olympic medals as validation, but were surprised at how London rose to the occasion'

Most of the world-beating cricket team of the 1970s were anti-apartheid. Now they are shut out from the national game

Television networks have long since abandoned chess but a multi-millionaire promoter plans to catapult it back into the limelight