Hi °C | Lo °C A lot of horsing around on Channel Four
You probably didn't notice, but Channel Four had acquired the rights to show the Grand National for the first time this year.
A dogged Rossi is just what the Doctor ordered
I don't know about you but there's nothing I love more of an evening than being out in the great outdoors watching men in leather do what they do best.
Oskar the grouch wins a blue for his language
The Boat Race – posh, sinewy, educated men messing about on the river watched by thousands of toffs and bemused ordinary folk – is a throwback to a bygone age of the Corinthian spirit of fair play, amateur dedication and a jolly good time had by all. And then you let an American in.
Ulster triumph on rocky road to Dublin
When you've waited since 1999 for a win in Dublin you don't mind having to hang on a wee bit longer for an Ulster victory, but beating Leinster is one thing it's quite another having to persuade the referee that this is allowed to happen.
Overheating nuts and an awful lot of Bull
Right from the outset I'd like to point out that my eagle-eyed reader will not have failed to notice that for the second week in a row I am going to discuss Formula One.
Beeb ensures that running costs are frozen solid
It is reassuring in these austere times that the guardians of the nation, the BBC, are cutting their cloth accordingly and confining their troops to base.
Mr Walker has got his Focus all wrong
Maybe it's just me but did anyone else detect a slight irony in Saturday's Football Focus that everyone was so adamant that England's demolition of San Mario was meaningless?
They came, they saw, they were slammed
There have been many ‘where were you?’ moments in sport down throughout the mists of time — Usain Bolt in Beijing, Ian Botham’s Ashes, Cliff Thorburn and his fags making a 147, Sir Steve Redgrave in his wee boat, Paul Hardy’s Irish Cup winner against Larne in 1989 — the list goes on and on.
The hand of God meets the foot of BOD
You can only imagine the levels of excitement down at RTE this week as Ireland packed up their green holdalls to head off to Rome to try and seal fifth spot in the Six Nations table.
Dwain Chambers gets a little shirty over in Sweden
I have to admit I didn't harbour any great hopes that the European Indoor Athletics Championships would provide much in the way of entertainment.
An Ards act to follow in Minsk and Rome
In the post-Olympic glow that still exists on the Beeb, you almost felt it was your patriotic duty to stop protesting on the streets and come inside and wave a flag to cheer on Team GB at the World Cycling Championships in Belarus.
Aud and Rogie's Saturday night takeaway
Move over Ant and Dec, if it's belly laughs all the way on a Saturday night that you're after then it's hard to beat Prizefighter.
Becks with a bang via Paris and Berwick
I wonder when Ray Stubbs left the BBC to go to ESPN did he envisage the glamour of standing in a snowstorm in Berwick watching Third Division Scottish football?
An eagle, Ravens and a big songbird
Glitz, glamour, razzmatazz, ladies in sparkly costumes, bombastic music and a bit of sinewy athleticism thrown in for good measure, the greatest sports show on earth hit our screens at the weekend. Oh, and some Americans were throwing a funny rugby ball around too.
Billy on the Box: Forget the Tin Man, Iron Man is Oz wizard
Far be it from me to cast aspersions on the broadcasting neutrality of the BBC but Blatantly Biased Caledonian TV took it to a whole new level Down Under at the crack of dawn on Sunday morning.
Billy on the Box: Aussies show they clearly don’t rule in cup football
At least the FA Cup would be free of Antipodean interference, surely? Errr, no.
Billy on the Box: Cyclists don’t give a XXXX about a cheeky number
It wasn’t just tennis that was occupying the good folks on the other side of the world as Australians were everywhere you looked last week.
Billy on the Box: It’s safari so good as DR Congo finds cure
You join me as I manfully continue to try and thaw out my vuvuzela so that I can truly join in on the footballing feast that is the African Cup of Nations.
Billy on the Box: Hoop springs eternal that NBA will get more exciting
Basketball has arrived on Sky Sports and just in case you didn’t realise the NBA decided to send a couple of teams over to the UK to make sure.
Billy on the Box: Oprah refuses to allow Lance Armstrong to let it lie
You probably didn’t notice but Lance Armstrong was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in a two and a half hour special shown on the Discovery channel this week.
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Australia name team to face the British and Irish Lions in first test
Australia have picked James O'Connor at fly-half for Saturday's opening Test against the British and Irish Lions at Suncorp Stadium with Kurtley Beale included on the bench.
Howley: Best to come from North
Rob Howley has declared that the British and Irish Lions have yet to see the best of George North after the Wales wing was passed fit for Saturday's first Test against Australia.
O'Connor to start for Australia
Australia have picked James O'Connor at fly-half for Saturday's opening Test against the British and Irish Lions at Suncorp Stadium with Kurtley Beale included on the bench.
Di Canio signs Swede Karlsson
Sunderland boss Paolo Di Canio has landed teenage Swedish winger David Moberg Karlsson.
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