Young newcomer Evonne Goolagong was one month away from her 20th birthday when she scored straight-set victories over Billie Jean King in the semi-finals at…
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There is a famous story about George Best after he had won one night at a casino and a bellboy found him in his hotel…
The exact beginnings of the Harlem Globetrotters are uncertain, although the team considers that their first-ever road game took place on 7 January 1927, in…
Jackie Stewart – The Flying Scotsman – drove an Elf Tyrell In 1973 at Watkins Glen (which was Jackie’s 100th Grand Prix) Stewart’s teammate Francois…
19 December 2015 Jimmy Hill has died aged 87 following a battle with Alzheimer’s. Hill will forever be remembered as one of the most influential…
Mickey Mantle’s illustrious baseball career began in the 1950s when he was a teenage phenomenon out of Commerce, Oklahoma, thrust into the limelight of joining…
“I am the greatest,” claimed Muhammad Ali – and many still consider him to be the finest heavyweight boxer of all time. His catchphrase “float like…
Fourteen-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci delighted crowds at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada. She won three gold medals, a silver medal, and a bronze…
Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pelé was Brazil’s soccer superstar and one of the greatest footballers ever. He was fantastic, fabulous and friendly – even…
Roller Derby was born in Chicago during the Depression but didn’t achieve national prominence until the advent of television in the late 1940s. In 1949,…
1 9 8 5 – 1 9 9 2 (UK) 25 minute episodes Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves were the last football pundits to appear…
25 May 1986 Sport Aid was a sport-themed campaign for African famine relief held in May 1986, involving several days of all-star exhibition events in…
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 9 7 (UK) Sportsnight was a midweek BBC television successor to Sportsview that ran from 1968 until 1997.…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 6 8 (UK) British television’s great scoop of 1954 was achieved by the new series Sportsview. On 6 May their…
Patents for similar table games date back as early as the 1890s in Spain. However, the origins of Table Football (aka “Foosball”) date to 1921,…
World Cup Willie, a roguish little lion with a Union Jack jersey, emerged as one of the leading personalities of the 1966 World Cup competition.…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 8 5 (UK) World of Sport was created in January 1965 as a Saturday afternoon rival to Grandstand. The show -…