Jerome Drayton, the Canadian who won the Boston Marathon in 1977 and knocked Bill Rodgers and Frank Shorter off the top of ...

These former Ohio State athletes left the playing field, court and track for the political arena. Now Jim Tressel joins their ...

With England scheduled to play Afghanistan in the Champions Trophy on 26 February, BBC Sport looks at the background of the ...

In a hotel in Paris last week, Sebastian Coe orders a cappuccino before sitting down with MARCA. He arrived on the eve of ...

Legendary strongman Geoff Capes left nearly £240,000 in his will and a last request to have the words “Local Boy Done Good” ...

Ian Fleming movie "Diamonds are Forever”, Sean Connery is seen introducing himself to a blonde, beautiful girl lazing by the seashore in a one liner; “My name is Bond, James Bond.”This sounded cool ...

More than a fitting epitaph for President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, who died Dec. 29. Truth, law and peace are lodestars for ...

President Jimmy Carter announced the United States would boycott the Moscow Games. The decision left Meagher obviously stung, used as a political pawn. At the Olympics, East Germany’s Caren ...

Today in History for Feb. 20: In 1666, explorer Rene-Robert La Salle arrived in New France and settled at Montreal. In 1725, the earliest recorded scalps were taken in New Hampshire, when white bounty ...

Ukraine war latest: Ukraine 'may or may not be Russian someday', Trump says as his aides prepare for Kyiv visit Donald Trump has speculated on the prospect of a Ukraine-Russia peace deal - as talk ...

As we reported earlier, Donald Trump has suggested that Ukraine "may or may not be Russian someday" (see 8.17am post). We've been keeping an eye on reaction in Ukraine, where the comments are ...

The Weeknd announced his boycott in 2021 after he was shut out of that year's awards, citing the complicated way nominees were determined at the time and accusing the Recording Academy of a lack ...