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BBC Sports Personality – Mo’s immovable mountain

Phil Taylor will, as expected, be amongst the contenders to become the 2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year on 19 December, and currently sits at third favourite to walk-off with the coveted – although actually fairly pointless – award.Ahead of Taylor...

Who can replace Mace the Ace?

Chris Mason announced his retirement from darts in Wolverhampton last weekend, and will in all likelihood play his last match as a professional in Derby on Monday.Highly talented and frequently controversial, Mason never won a major tournament, but featured in some of...

Adams’ hat-trick fails to fill the boots of The Limestone Cowboy

Martin Adams beat Stuart Kellett in the final of the Winmau World Masters live on BBC2 on Sunday afternoon to cap an enjoyable weekend of televised darts, and become only the second man in the 37-year history of the event to secure the trophy for three consecutive...

Taylor’s defeats resurrect the darting year

When Phil Taylor loses one darts tournament it may be regarded as misfortune; two looks like carelessness; but four, in just nine days, and questions arise about The Power’s continued dominance of the darting world. Until last weekend, Taylor had been unbeaten...

Enjoy him while you can – Phil Taylor reaches 50

Fifty years ago today in Stoke, the western world’s most successful sportsman was born.Phil Taylor’s achievements are both inimitable and incredible. Were his sport one which had originated from the fields of public schools rather than the fug of public...

Future of women’s professional darts remains in the balance

The inaugural PDC Unicorn women’s world darts championship concluded live on Sky Sports late on Saturday night with victory for US number 1 Stacy Bromberg. The titanic tussle against south London’s Tricia Wright went to the deciding leg, but to depict the...

FIFA’s ineptitude saved once again by the beautiful game

Four enthralling world cup quarter finals have helped to ensure that football’s on-going ills will remain untouched. How the administrators of other sports must view the round ball game with immense jealousy, for it is despite the best efforts of FIFA that the...

England’s woes bad news for the Beeb

England’s footballers may have played horribly against Algeria on Friday night, but the performance of the nation’s broadcasters was also markedly average. In the first half both Radio 5 Live and ITV insisted that this was a must-win game, when anyone...

There’s only one Phil Taylor

Phil Taylor produced a phenomenal performance at Wembley Arena last night, regaining the Whyte & Mackay Premier League Darts title with a 10-8 defeat of defending champion James ‘The Machine’ Wade.‘The Power’ hit two nine-dart legs, the...

Premier League season fails to fail to deliver

Disillusioned by its predictability and fed up with the nastiness contained within, last November I said Farewell to the Premier League. I’ve since been hounded by a recurring phrase uttered by Lloyd Bridges’ stressed air-traffic controller in the 1980...

Van Barneveld reveals blackmail plot

Of the many peculiar stories that darts throws up, few match that revealed by world number 2 dart player Raymond Van Barneveld live on Sky Sports last Thursday night. Just minutes after hitting his second televised nine-dart leg in five months, the Dutchman informed a...

London 2012: The Funding of the 500

The British Olympic Association (BOA) announced last week that it expects to send more than 500 athletes to London 2012. Team GB will be 50% bigger than at Beijing 2008, reflecting a ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform Olympic sport in Great Britain.'...

Six nations rugby coverage weathered by the BBC

The eleventh outing of rugby’s Six Nations ended on Saturday night in somewhat soggy disappointment. Italy collected the wooden spoon for the eighth time in eleven attempts - and have still only beaten Scotland (5 times) and Wales (twice) since joining the...

Hockey’s demolition job

England will face familiar opponents tomorrow in the semi-finals of the Hockey world cup, with a clash of sticks against reigning Olympic and world champions Germany. England defeated the Germans in the final of the 2009 European Championships, however, so the winner...

PDC causes concern with cunning plan for darting domination

Following several months of indifferent courtship of the BDO, the Professional Darts Corporation removed its velvet gloves last week with the announcement of a cunning plan that included three new tournaments.The PDC World Cup of darts, Unicorn Under-21 World...

Beware of the loud racquet

A new year brings another false hope for British tennis. The failure of Laura Robson to make the main draw at the Australian Open may be a blessing - placing a little deserved spotlight on Elena Baltacha and Katie O'Brien -...

Here come the women

Although a touch disappointed not to see the England Women’s Cricket Team win the BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year award over the weekend, the fact that they were nominated and discussed in equal measure with the men illustrates quite how far the sport...

BBC Sports Personality nominees

No suprises at SPOTY towers where Phil Taylor has once again been overlooked for BBC Sports Personality of the Year by the twenty-six national and regional publications given the pleasurable task of choosing their top ten.I know I shouldn't give a...

Is it cos I is French?

A footballer cheats in a match which doesn't involve anyone British but it's front-page phone-in fodder, the twitterverse goes crazee and the BBC sport website runs a live debate the following day. Hello?Bien sur Terry Henry [sic] was wrong, of course he...

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