Neither Bremen nor Hannover are the most fashionable of sides but they are even more entertaining than a Robin Williams stand-up set, so bet on there being goals galore in their German Bundesliga derby match at the Weserstadion. Many professional […]

South Africa and Pakistan will play a three-Test series from Friday 1 February 2013 to Tuesday 26 February 2013, with the games taking place in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Centurion. The series is one to which cricket fans are looking […]

Stretched over five action-packed winter weekends, the Six Nations Championship is Europe’s top annual international rugby union tournament. Formerly known as the Home Nations Championship and the Five Nations Championship, it became the competition that one knows today in 2000 […]

The National Hockey League has come a long way since it was founded in November 1917 by four Canadian clubs – Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs – fed up arguing with Eddie Livingstone, the boss of […]

The 2013 Africa Cup of Nations is the biggest event on this year’s international football calendar, which just goes to show how far the tournament has come in recent times. Not long ago it was a competition about which only […]

Tennis players do not get a great deal of down time and the Australian Open, one of the four most important events on the sport’s annual calendar, gets under way not very long after they have finished eating their Christmas […]