BBC Radio 5 Live's commentators aren't afraid to tell the truth about how tedious sport can be

Standpoint's Mole in English cricket dissects an institution dazzled by the prospect of big money

In sport, it’s not just knowing how to lose that’s important, it’s also knowing how to win

‘The banking-football XI would certainly play an unusual formation: no defenders but 11 strikers’

‘Dempsey's late equaliser caused a drowsy American to rise from his sacred couch and send his voice skyward, filled with pure exultation’

A memory of the time Harold Pinter claimed that "cricket was better than sex"

‘Why should the Beckhams and Rooneys of corporate finance be penalised, but not the Beckhams and Rooneys of football?’

With the community-based bond between football clubs and their fans having long since disintegrated, why do the fans of hopeless teams remain addicted?

Boxing, A Cultural History by Kasia Boddy

No doubt the haka is all very well in its time and place – but that place was long ago and far away. It’s essentially a cannibal war dance designed to scare the living daylights out of those you hope to kill and eat