16 May 2012
Two decades of sweat, tears and football trophies were celebrated at the Premier League 20 Seasons Awards, with Manchester United featuring heavily among the winners. more »
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15 May 2012
In the space of a few days Alan Pardew, Newcastle United manager has been named the LMA Manager of the Year and Premier League Manager of the Season. more »
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14 May 2012
Whatever the situation, the Premier League always finds a way to deliver some drama on the final day of the season. Every year, there's something to be decided in the final set of matches, and the final day of the season writes a compelling story. more »
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10 May 2012
As we near the end of the season across Europe, it's always an exciting time as the finals take place and we get to see who will be ending the season on a high. more »
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08 May 2012
The 2012 World Snooker Championship - the 75th time the trophy has been awarded - concluded yesterday at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield with Ronnie O'Sullivan winning his fourth world title beating Ali Carter 18-11 in the final. more »
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07 May 2012
David Beckham, the Los Angeles Galaxy footballer and former England captain, has come out on top of the recently published Sunday Times list of the UK and Ireland's richest sports personalities. more »
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07 May 2012
After a peculiar season of league disappointment accompanied with cup success, both Liverpool and Chelsea went into the 2012 FA Cup Final with something to prove. more »
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04 May 2012
Yesterday, Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney won the Premier League Goal of the 20 Seasons Award for his audacious overhead kick against bitter rivals Manchester ity. more »
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03 May 2012
The 16th annual Webby Awards will be presented at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on May 21. The host of the evening will be American comedian/actor/writer Patton Oswalt. The Webby Awards honour “the best of the web” and are organized by IADAS. more »
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03 May 2012
Seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry announced his retirement from competitive snooker on Tuesday night, following a heavy 13-2 defeat to Stephen Maguire in the World Championship quarter-finals at the Crucible. more »
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02 May 2012
Nominees for this year’s £25,000 Turner Prize are Paul Noble, Lali Spartacus Chetwynd, Elizabeth Price and Luke Fowler. The esteemed prize is awarded to a British artist, under the age of 50, deemed to have put on the best and most interesting exhibition more »
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01 May 2012
After much deliberation the winner for our World's Worst Football Kit competition is... more »
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01 May 2012
What do Bob Dylan, astronaut John Glenn, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison have in common? They are all to be honoured with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a ceremony at the White House this month. more »
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27 April 2012
Terry Spinks, who become the youngest ever British athlete, at eighteen years of age, to win an Olympic gold medal for boxing, has died at the age of 74. more »
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26 April 2012
The team that designed the Olympic torch for the London Games has walked off with the coveted Design of the Year award 2012. more »
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25 April 2012
The Football Writers’ Association have awarded another of this season’s individual football trophies to in-form goal machine, Arsenal striker Robin Van Persie. more »
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24 April 2012
The draw for the football tournament at the London Olympics 2012 took place earlier at Wembley Stadium and gave Team GB the prospect of a tough route to the knock-out stage. more »
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24 April 2012
Prince Harry will be awarded with the distinguished humanitarian leadership award by the Atlantic Council, on May 7 in Washington DC. more »
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23 April 2012
Last night, Robin van Persie was awarded the title of the 2012 PFA Player of the Year. It caps a season that has seen the Arsenal captain score 34 times for his club in all competitions. more »
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23 April 2012
The last Virgin London Marathon before the city's Olympic Games was, unsurprisingly, dominated by Kenyan athletes. Wilson Kipsang won the men's race and Mary Keitany triumphed in the women's event. more »
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18 April 2012
As every April for the past thirty-eight years, the Professional Footballers' Association has submitted their PFA Awards nominees' shortlist. more »
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18 April 2012
Please note that PayPal will be upgrading their systems between 5:00 am and 6:00am on Friday 20th April. During the time of the upgrade PayPal have informed us that there will be a system-wide interruption to PayPal’s services and website. more »
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17 April 2012
The English Football League has been around since 1888 and has a rich history, however, wiith the inception of the Premier League in 1992, players are now earning more in a week than most working people earn in a year. more »
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16 April 2012
The world-famous steeplechase was won by Neptune Collonges, a 33-1 outsider ridden by Daryl Jacob and trained by Paul Nicholls, who caught Sunnyhillboy, under Richie McLernon and trained by Jonjo O'Neill, in the final 100 yards to win by a nose. more »
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11 April 2012
Coming up we see Television's Drama Queens battle it out for silverware at The British Soap Awards 2012. Have your betting slips at the ready as Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and Doctors come face to face. more »
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10 April 2012
The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat race, started in 1829, now has the formal title of the Xchanging Boat Race for its 158th race. One of the UK's oldest annual sporting events. more »
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05 April 2012
This year’s US Masters tees off in Augusta today in what promises to be one of the most open contests for some time. A number of golfers are hitting form just at the right moment and at least half a dozen players can be said to be in serious contention. more »
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03 April 2012
The WWE event of the year took place at the weekend - Wrestlemania 28! And a night of excitement it was - it proved to be an event full of surprises. more »
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02 April 2012
On April Fools' day, the 1st April, 2012, The Razzies, that refreshing and much needed alternative to the Oscars, made their ever welcome annual appearance. more »
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02 April 2012
On Thursday 29th the Marie Curie BIG Build 50/50 Appeal held an Evening Awards Ceremony to mark the end of the 50/50 challenge. more »
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29 March 2012
In terms of sports, the conception of archery is one of the oldest, stretching back to the Stone Age, where the use of pointed projectiles was an important hunting device. more »
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28 March 2012
2012 marks the year of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Sixty years ago, following the death of her father King George VI, Princess Elizabeth ascended the throne, at the age of just 25. more »
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27 March 2012
An officer in the Royal Navy who was murdered in April 2011 whilst attempting to disarm an Able Seaman as he went on a killing spree aboard HMS Astute, a £1 billion submarine, has been awarded the George Medal. more »
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27 March 2012
This weekend saw the return of the annual Sport Relief event 2012. Sport Relief always hooks an impressive amount of celebrities, which this year included David Walliams. more »
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26 March 2012
We were all sad to hear that Jocky Wilson, one of the most iconic figures in the game of darts, had died. Jocky was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lung disorder. He died at his home in Fife, Scotland, on Saturday night. more »
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26 March 2012
In the early days of organised football in the late 19th Century it wasn't so uncommon for League teams to score 10 goals or more. more »
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23 March 2012
This Sunday, 25th March, British Summer Time (BST) officially begins. The time across the UK goes forward by one hour at 1am as we move away from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and into British Summer Time, meaning we lose an hour of sleep. more »
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23 March 2012
With the Olympic Games just around the corner and the first blossoming appearance of the summer months, the mood is beginning to change as people out and about start to feel the anticipation. more »
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22 March 2012
Though the 2012 Olympics and fashion design may appear to be a rather ill-fitting coupling at first glance, the release of Team GB's kit has received heartening praise from those that will be decked head to toe in the attire come the Games. more »
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21 March 2012
Following on from the recent successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics which take place this Summer, London has now been chosen to host the 2015 EuroHockey championships for both the men and women’s competition which will be seen as good news. more »
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