Biography: Sport

Everyone knows Yogi Berra, the American icon. He was the backbone of the New York Yankees through ten World Series Championships, managed the Natio...

Red Card Roy is the jaw-dropping story of terrace cult hero Roy McDonough - Britain''s wildest ever footballer who was sent off a record 22 times...

Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith's Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Yet the...

Micky Adams has a football CV as long as your arm, having put in 438 appearances as a full-back - for teams such as Gillingham, Leeds, Fulham and S...

Stuart Barnes has spent over forty years of his life immersed in rugby union, remembered as one of the most controversial playing names during the ...

From somewhere out in the vast whiteness of the blizzard we hear a cry for help. Instinctively the three of us turn and head across the mountainsid...

No Place to Fall is Victor Saunders follow up to his Boardman Tasker Prize winning debut book Elusive Summits. Covering three expeditions in Nepal,...

'A full and fascinating portrait of one of the great figures of mountaineering.' Michael PalinAt dusk on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal ...

A cult football figure, Vince Hilaire's career spanned over 600 games and took in spells at Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Leeds United and Stoke City...

Over 9,000 feet up on the top of Mount Roraima is a twenty-five mile square plateau, at the point where Guyanas border meets Venezuela and Brazil. ...

The mountains are crystal under the blue sky, as we climb up our untouched peak. This is why we climb.In this fast-paced, refreshingly honest accou...

''It was Kongur that dominated everything, and was the focus of our gaze and aspirations.''So thought Chris Bonington upon the Chinese Mountaineeri...

The North Face of the Eiger was long notorious as the most dangerous climb in the Swiss Alps, one that had claimed the lives of numerous mountainee...

An L.A. hot-rodder with a high school education, a family to support, and almost no money, Craig Breedlove set out in the late 1950s to do somethin...