It IS a question thousands of golf fans are sure to ask this week as they pack Royal Portrush for the first Irish Open in Northern Ireland since 1953. How on earth did Rory McIlroy shoot 61 round this place? Even more amazingly, how on earth did he do it when he was just 16 years old? ...
Hibernian goalkeeper Mark Brown is set to be offered a new contract in the next 48 hours. More...
WHAT’S UP bids to bounce back to form in the EBF J C Stewart Fillies’ Handicap as the Saints & Sinners charity meeting returns to Hamilton Park this evening. More...
THE day is coming when Germany will finally beat Italy at a major tournament, according to midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger. And that day will be today. More...
THE unfolding disintegration of the Rangers first-team squad has prompted a bitter reaction from club legend Sandy Jardine, who has accused those players refusing to transfer their contracts to Charles Green’s newco of greed and dishonesty. More...
When the yet-to-be-launched Team Sky announced in 2009 its intention to produce a Tour de France winner within five years, everybody laughed. Less than four years later, no-one is laughing any more, with Bradley Wiggins entering cycling’s most prestigious three-week race as the man to beat...
SCOTLAND manager Craig Levein insists Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov deserves credit for taking steps to ensure the club does not follow Rangers into financial oblivion. More...
TOP Scots jump jockey Campbell Gillies has died in a swimming pool accident the day before his 22nd birthday while on holiday in Greece. More...
Edinburgh City Whites claimed the spoils in the Under-15s Division Three League Cup final, winning 2-0 against league champions Leith Athletic 97. Strikes in either half by Dale Maitland and Rory Anderson proved enough for City to lift the trophy at Saughton Enclosure. More...
Spartans FC Whites 14s emerged 5-4 winners in the final of the SERYFA Division Four League Cup over the boys and girls of Fernieside Colts in an enthralling encounter at Ainslie Park. More...
The girls and boys of the Mary Erskine and Stewart’s-Melville Junior School are celebrating the end of yet another hugely successful year on the city’s football circuit. More...
MURRAY mania was back in full swing as the British No 1 opened his Wimbledon campaign on centre court on Tuesday night, marching decisively into the second round of the tournament. More...
Tominator is back on course to attempt back-to-back victories in the John Smith’s Northumberland Plate at Newcastle on Saturday following an injury scare. More...
MARK Cavendish is excited at the prospect of playing his part in Bradley Wiggins’ bid to become the first British winner of the Tour de France. More...
Scotland internationals Kim Little and Ifeoma Dieke are set to defy the SFA after being selected for Great Britain’s inaugural women’s football squad but, while their actions have angered the national association, they will not face repercussions. More...
RICKY Burns will face Londoner Kevin Mitchell in a defence of his WBO lightweight title in Glasgow on Saturday, 22 September. More...
UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee has stressed that this week’s European Championships will not produce another record medal haul but is more for athletes to “test or select” themselves for the Olympics. More...
Scottish sprint champion Tom Holligan has been selected for the World Junior Championships. The Edinburgh AC athlete joins three other Scots – Emily Dudgeon, Nick Percy and Laura Muir – in the GB & NI team for the Barcelona event next week. More...
with the notable exception of Sally Watson, who returned a par 72, Scottish players were not prominently placed at the end of the first qualifying round of the British Women’s Open Amateur Championship at a relatively calm Carnoustie links. More...
scott Grieve, a two-times Duddingston junior champion, returned to his old stomping ground yesterday to make his presence felt in the opening round of the latest PGA Optical Express Tour event. More...
WORLD sevens will return to Glasgow next year on the first bank holiday weekend in May. Scottish Rugby announced yesterday that the Emirates Airline Glasgow 7s will be held on 4 and 5 May in 2013 following the highly successful inaugural event at Scotstoun Stadium. More...
FOR Spain it’s about stopping one man while, for Portugal, it will be more about containing a whole team when the sides meet in tonight’s first European Championship semi-final in Donetsk. More...
VICENTE del Bosque defended Spain’s style of play on the eve of their European Championship semi-final with Portugal, defying critics who say their possession-based football is boring. More...
ALL 30 Scottish Football League clubs will meet at Hampden next Tuesday as a contentious move to parachute newco Rangers into the second tier of a hastily reconstructed senior football set-up reaches a critical stage. More...
JEFFERIES tries to lure Kyle to East End Park; Derek Adams dismisses talk of moves for Broadfoot and Riordan; Smith signs new deal at Hibs and Martin Laing makes step up to ICT first team More...
THE Scottish Football Association are waiting for information from Charles Green to support his newco club’s application for membership of the governing body. More...
HEARTS fans have pledged their support to new manager John McGlynn. More...
Aberdeen have finally completed the signing of Jonny Hayes from SPL rivals Inverness, the talented winger sealing a two-year deal after rejecting a new contract with Caley Thistle. More...
James Ward savoured the best moment of his career after moving into round two of Wimbledon with a win over Pablo Andujar. More...
Wimbledon’s honours board is littered with Australian greats but the gradual decline in the country’s fortunes on the famous lawns reached a new low yesterday when, for the first time since 1938, they failed to get a man into the second round. More...
ELENA Baltacha has had her struggles at Wimbledon in the past. Yesterday, however, was a case of double delight for the Scot as she celebrated reaching the second round with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 victory over Karin Knapp. More...
ANNE Keothavong and Elena Baltacha have been given wild cards to represent Great Britain in singles at the Olympics while Laura Robson and Heather Watson will compete in the doubles. More...
ANDY Murray cast a spell over Nikolay Davydenko on Centre Court yesterday in one of the most one-sided contests seen at Wimbledon so far this year. More...
RAFAEL Nadal was given an early working over but had more than enough in reserve to win his Wimbledon first-round match against Thomaz Bellucci. More...
Jamie Baker had hoped for his moment in the sun – a reward for years of hard work, for battling back from serious illness and for always trying. A showcase match against a top player on one of the world’s most famous courts was just the job – Andy Roddick on No 1 court in the first round of...
Despite the tagging, these osprey chicks are not your regular jail birds – they are helping to ensure the future of their species. More...
THE trickle of Rangers players turning their back on the reconstituted Ibrox club turned into a flood last night as Allan McGregor, Steven Davis, Kyle Lafferty and Jamie Ness all joined the exodus after declining to transfer their contracts to Charles Green’s newco Rangers. More...
ANDY Murray admitted he was in a hurry to blow Nikolay Davydenko away as he began his latest Wimbledon campaign in considerable style yesterday, with a straight-sets victory on Centre Court, 6-1, 6-1, 6-4. More...
The Scottish Government was last night forced to apologise after sports minister Shona Robison was given a dressing-down by the formidable widow of a much-admired sporting figure. More...
A TERMINALLY-ILL Scots girl has finally been given the all clear to fly back from Mexico after her condition improved enough for her to make the long journey home. More...
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