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WORLD SPORT
This old Willie's bowls still workIF you thought England's World Cup were getting a bit old, take a look at our Commonwealth Games competitors.Scotch bowls legend William Walker Wood has just been selected to represent Brit
It's the Ryde of the TigerWITH all our heart, BBM hopes Tiger Woods makes the cut for the USA Ryder Cup team.Imagine the football chants that Euro fans will aim at him - especially after having had a season to hone their ta
London calling - two years earlyWE'RE not quite sure how this works, but an Italian bloke has become the first person to qualify for the London Olympics - two years before the frigging thing takes place.Niccolo Campriani, 2
FOOTBALL
Stevie's a quit teaseIT'S been a busy week for Steeeevie Gerrard - and for once we're not talking about the scandalicious internet rumours.First the big old diddums came out and said he thought about quitting internationa
Stevie's a quit teaseIT'S been a busy week for Steeeevie Gerrard - and for once we're not talking about the scandalicious internet rumours.First the big old diddums came out and said he thought about quitting internationa
THE Australian national team have pulled off a major coup by somehow coaxing world-class coach Holger Osieck to take over as their new manager.We're not going to insult you by suggesting that no-one outside Germany has got
RUGBY
WITH British (and Irish) Lions coach Ian McGeechan publicly announcing that his team needs to ‘get everything right' on next year's South Africa tour, we felt that he needed to get more specific. Here is a set of rules to
HEARING that Martin Johnson was arranging a press conference to explain his decision to stick with the lumpen Steve Borthwick as England captain , we felt it was appropriate to send a translator to try and make sense of t
MARTIN Johnson, you have officially used up one of your nine lives as England boss. Despite an alarming run of three consecutive defeats
CRICKET
A VAGUE headline? Generic photograph? An introduction that doesn't actually tell you anything? Yes it's that great BBM tradition of writing about something before it's actually happened.This week, like every week for the
AS GETTING hammered goes England's feeble disintegration reminded us of a time we drank absinthe with a hot chick called Denise and woke up next to a behemoth named Denzil - it was painful, confusing and left a nasty taste
WHAT a bizarre and unpredictable thing this Ashes lark is this year - Australia dominated at Cardiff, but came away feeling robbed. England ruled at Lord's, but still fretted about defending 522. And Australia were under th
IRISH SPORT
OBVIOUSLY we stopped believing a word that came out of Joe Kinnear's mouth long ago, but even he would have to admit this quote he gave on December 31st about Shay Given's future may have been ever so slightly misguided."He
YOU certainly don't get to use the phrases ‘sporting success' and ‘boost to the economy' much about Ireland - so when this week the two could be used in the same sentence, it was as rare as a pass along
THE will-he-won't-he-oh-just-get-on-with-it saga surrounding Stephen Ireland's international career rumbles on this week with the Man City winger claiming the ball is firmly in Giovanni Trapattoni's court.The only problem w
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