DERMOT Desmond has been on a rare visit to Scottish soil this week, Celtic’s major shareholder indulging his passion for golf by playing in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Fife. More...
The fallout from John Terry’s racism ban continued to cause shockwaves yesterday with the Chelsea captain’s defence branded “improbable, implausible and contrived” by the panel who issued the suspension and Ashley Cole apologising after a four-letter tirade at the Football Association. ...
TOP-seeded Novak Djokovic needed only 53 minutes to win his quarter-final over Jurgen Melzer of Austria 6-1, 6-2 at the China Open. More...
BEING no longer a betting man I don’t know what odds the bookies may be offering on Scotland beating the All Blacks next month, but I would guess they are about as long as you will ever get in a two horse race – rather as they might be if a selling plater was up against Frankel at level weights...
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IT IS every coach’s nightmare and invariably plays a central role in the outcome of league championships, and today at Raeburn Place two sides in form are keeping their fingers crossed that their run of victories will continue despite being hampered by injuries. More...
Experienced campaigner Rory McKay returns to the Glasgow Hawks line-up as the RBS National League leaders look to make it a magnificent seventh at Inverleith this afternoon. More...
Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert has hit out at Norwich chairman Alan Bowkett for going public over the details of his departure from Carrow Road at the end of last season. More...
It may only be six rounds into the season but Real Madrid head into this weekend’s Nou Camp showdown with arch rivals Barcelona knowing a defeat could cause irrevocable damage to the defence of their Primera Division title. More...
THERE is arguably no coach in world sport who currently occupies a loftier perch than Dave Brailsford. More...
GOLFER Paul Casey was looking for birdies but ended up with a doggie at the Dunhill Links Championship yesterday. More...
HUNDREDS of primary school children have been given the chance to try out the multi-million-pound main venue for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. More...
In a special report, Stephen Burgen in Barcelona examines the bitter Catalan ‘referendum’ battle and the parallels that exist with Scotland More...
WORKERS at Hall’s of Broxburn who face losing their jobs spoke of their anxiety at the uncertainty hanging over their future as they left work at the end of their shifts yesterday. More...
Martin Whitmarsh has not ruled out the possibility of Lewis Hamilton returning to McLaren one day. More...
UPBEAT Pete Steindl last night looked forward to Scotland’s tour to South Africa and claimed size matters. More...
HE’S still got his biggest test to come. Carnoustie, after all, is a different proposition to Kingsbarns and St Andrews, which he’s tamed over the last two days with scores of 60 and 67. But, standing on 17-under and holding a five-shot advantage over the field, Branden Grace could prove a tough...
MARK Webber set the fastest time in practice for the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix, edging McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton and team-mate Sebastian Vettel. More...
Grange, second in the table last season, will not want a repeat of last season’s shock defeat by AMN Hillhead at Peffermill to start off this year’s campaign in the Aberdeen Asset Management national league. More...
At THE end of his 16-year career, which included four world championships and two Olympic Winter Games, the decision to finally hang up his slalom race skis was, for Noel Baxter, 31, made this week because of continued injury and ongoing lack of funding. More...
THE man who recorded his first big win in Las Vegas certainly likes to gamble with his Ryder Cup chances. For this year’s match at Medinah, Martin Laird started his qualifying big four months later than everyone else due to his affiliate membership only kicking in on 1 January, 2011. ...
ALLY McCoist is keen to see Rangers and the Scottish Football Association resolve their differences for the good of Scottish football. More...
UNLESS there are some fireworks on the course before the traditional pyrotechnic show lights up the sky above St Andrews tonight, the £3.5 million Dunhill Links Championship is going to be missing some of its leading lights in the final round. More...
Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard lit up the second semi-final with scintillating power-hitting as West Indies crushed Australia by 74 runs yesterday to reach their first World Twenty20 final. More...
CELTIC captain Scott Brown is almost certain to be ruled out of at least one of Scotland’s crucial World Cup qualifying matches against Wales and Belgium after suffering another setback in his battle with an ongoing hip problem, while Steven Naismith was last night banned by Fifa for two matches...
FROM evocative images of bustling bazaars and fruit markets, to visceral landscapes capturing an era when Karachi was just a small town rather than a sprawling metropolis, they provide a tantalising glimpse of the Indian subcontinent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. More...
THE CHANCE to live and play in Scotland for three years and then represent his adopted nation at international level has emerged as a greater motivating factor behind new Glasgow player Josh Strauss’s move than the player previously let on. More...
MARTIN O’Neill will send Sunderland’s goal talisman Steven Fletcher away on Scotland duty under strict orders to come back fit and well. More...
SRI LANKA’S spinners carried them through to the final of their home tournament, with a 16-run ICC World Twenty20 semi-final victory over Pakistan at the Premadasa Stadium. More...
SIR Clive Woodward has announced he is to leave the British Olympic Association after six years with the organisation. More...
SO the curtain is to come down on Michael Schumacher’s Formula One career for a second time and, on this occasion, there is a palpable sense of warmth towards the seven-time champion. More...
NINE people, including Ipswich striker Michael Chopra and jockey Andrew Heffernan, have been charged in connection with race-fixing by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA). More...
KRIS Boyd, along with David Beckham, Thierry Henry and Landon Donovan are among the players with the best-selling shirts in Major League Soccer. More...
LIVERPOOL found themselves in third place in Group A of the Europa League last night after this home defeat and Anzhi Makhachkala’s win over Young Boys in the other group game. More...
BOBBY BROWN briefly held the short-term fate of Rangers in his hands yesterday as he helped conduct the quarter-final draw of the League Cup. More...
REGARDED by many Hibs fans as the club’s best-ever right-back, John Brownlie had started off as an inside-forward, but found his “true” position when the 18-year-old replaced injured Chris Shevlane in the opening match of the 1970-71 season, and quickly made the full-back berth his own. ...
Philippe Coutinho’s tenth-minute strike set Inter Milan on their way to their first win in Uefa Europa League Group H last night with a 3-1 success against Neftchi in Azerbaijan. More...
DEREK Riordan completed a mad cross-border dash to play for Bristol Rovers – just 16 hours after the birth of his second daughter. The former Hibs and Celtic star was at his partner’s bedside in Edinburgh as their baby was delivered at 4am on Wednesday. More...
IT may have taken a bit of effort but Blair Drummond’s residents are finally settling into their new home. More...
US TYCOON Donald Trump performed a dramatic U-turn yesterday by announcing “one of Europe’s best hotels” would go ahead next to his Aberdeenshire golf course – despite previously saying no more investment would be made while plans for an 11-turbine wind farm were still being considered. ...
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