1 9 8 5 – 1 9 9 2 (UK) 25 minute episodes Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves were the last football pundits to appear…
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Patents for similar table games date back as early as the 1890s in Spain. However, the origins of Table Football (aka “Foosball”) date to 1921,…
19 December 2015 Jimmy Hill has died aged 87 following a battle with Alzheimer’s. Hill will forever be remembered as one of the most influential…
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 9 7 (UK) Sportsnight was a midweek BBC television successor to Sportsview that ran from 1968 until 1997.…
Mickey Mantle’s illustrious baseball career began in the 1950s when he was a teenage phenomenon out of Commerce, Oklahoma, thrust into the limelight of joining…
World Cup Willie, a roguish little lion with a Union Jack jersey, emerged as one of the leading personalities of the 1966 World Cup competition.…
Young newcomer Evonne Goolagong was one month away from her 20th birthday when she scored straight-set victories over Billie Jean King in the semi-finals at…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 6 8 (UK) British television’s great scoop of 1954 was achieved by the new series Sportsview. On 6 May their…
Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pelé was Brazil’s soccer superstar and one of the greatest footballers ever. He was fantastic, fabulous and friendly – even…
The exact beginnings of the Harlem Globetrotters are uncertain, although the team considers that their first-ever road game took place on 7 January 1927, in…
There is a famous story about George Best after he had won one night at a casino and a bellboy found him in his hotel…
“I am the greatest,” claimed Muhammad Ali – and many still consider him to be the finest heavyweight boxer of all time. His catchphrase “float like…
Jackie Stewart – The Flying Scotsman – drove an Elf Tyrell In 1973 at Watkins Glen (which was Jackie’s 100th Grand Prix) Stewart’s teammate Francois…
Fourteen-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci delighted crowds at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada. She won three gold medals, a silver medal, and a bronze…
Roller Derby was born in Chicago during the Depression but didn’t achieve national prominence until the advent of television in the late 1940s. In 1949,…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 8 5 (UK) World of Sport was created in January 1965 as a Saturday afternoon rival to Grandstand. The show -…
25 May 1986 Sport Aid was a sport-themed campaign for African famine relief held in May 1986, involving several days of all-star exhibition events in…