Snooker Without Balls
Affinity between aficionadoes of baize and board
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Down But Not Out
Peter Oborne recounts cricket's progress in Pakistan with the meticulousness and dedication such a rich and unlikely story deserves
In Walton’s Footsteps
The second-most frequently reprinted book in the English language is a 350-year-old fishing manual set in a bucolic Tottenham. Haringey never looked so good
Jocks Away
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
Olympian Angst
'Germans longed for Olympic medals as validation, but were surprised at how London rose to the occasion'
Going Mainstream
Television networks have long since abandoned chess but a multi-millionaire promoter plans to catapult it back into the limelight
Bowled Over
From Havana to Kigali, cricket’s good-news stories can be found in the least likely places In 1895, Winston Churchill, then a journalist covering the uprising against Spanish rule, made an optimistic prediction
Real Men Don’t Use Brylcreem
Public displays of emotion, sequins, ear studs and nancy boy’s clothes: where have all the men’s men gone? You may remember a few years ago a magnificent rebuke issued to Lord Mandelson
Gift for Greece
Spirit of London 2012? The best thing that could happen to the Olympic Games would be to send them home
Fussball über alles
The German film Der Ganz Grosse Traum shows the delightful story of the first Anglo-German conflict (football match, that is)
To the Polo Saddle Born
While polo as a spectator sport is primarily for the Manolo-wearing classes in England, in Argentina it is much more of a national sport
Old-order Collapse
Australia's performance in the Ashes is symptomatic of the newly-prosperous nation's fixation with consumerism