By Keira Daley 13 October 2010 Tom Daley, the 16-year-old British No1 diver and the reigning 10m platforn world champion, has won his second gold medal of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, triumphing in the 10m solo event. He had already triumphed in the 10m synchro with Max Brick. The significance of today’s victory is […]

By Nick Harris 23 December Like many teenagers, Tom Daley cites The X Factor as his favourite TV show. Every weekend he followed Jedward, Olly, Stacey and Co, and fully expected this year’s winner, Joe McElderry, to bag the Christmas No 1. Daley hadn’t even heard of Rage Against The Machine until a fortnight ago, […]

* In his first Monday column of 2013, Ian Herbert, The Independent’s man in the north-west, asks why we only remember Ronnie Radford when 21st century giant killers are far more up against it; why ITV’s Splash! was a car crash; and why the Premier League chairmen won’t take Fergie on. . By Ian Herbert […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 August 2012 In 1999, I met a 16-year-old kid called Mo who said it would mean a great deal to run for Britain. He was one of 110 promising British youngsters at an ‘Olympic futures’ training camp in Florida. I was reporting on it […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 January 2012 Sport, like life, is gloriously unpredictable – and hence predictions are fun at least for those able to mock at leisure when all your predictions go tits up. Still, Sportingintelligence thinks the following events might jolly well happen in 2012: Andy Murray will […]

By Nick Harris 19 December 2010 Tony McCoy, the greatest jump jockey of all time, was crowned the BBC Sports Personality of the Year at a star-studded awards night in Birmingham this evening – and then mentioned the Beeb’s great broadcasting rivals, Sky, in his acceptance speech. He was talking about the delight with which […]

By Nick Harris 8 November 2010 Tony McCoy’s victory in the 2010 Grand National has been acknowledged as the ‘Jump off the sofa’ moment of the British sporting year so far, bolstering his credentials as the favourite to win next month’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. The category was included in the inaugural […]

Tweet, tweet (most recent first) . . . . 29 April, 2pm UK time: Teenage tennis player Laura Robson gives her views on ‘bigot-gate’: “What a rookie error from Gordon Brown. HaHaa ;).” . 25 March, 5.15am UK time (evening US time, 24 March): Super star tennis player Andy Roddick’s wife – top model Brooklyn […]

By Helen Harris 7 January 2010 I am not interested in sport, or so I thought, and with good reason.  I never read the sports pages of the newspapers. The first note of the Match of the Day theme tune is my signal for an early night, and if conversation turns (by some extraordinary lack […]

By Nick Harris 31 December 2009 Ten for 2010. ONE) The Ivory Coast will go further in the summer’s World Cup that any African nation at any previous World Cup. If Didier Drogba arrives fit and well and not too despondent from missing out on the Premier League title, they could even win it, although […]