Biography: Sport

As a star linebacker for the Cleveland Browns in the 1940s and 1950s, Marion Motley invented the modern concept of the fullback. In 1946, he and...

In a career spanning three decades, weightlifter Tommy Kono won three Olympic medals and eight world championships, captured 11 U.S. national an...

A UFC champion and a boy with leukemia, in the fight of their lives. Cody Garbrandt dreamed of being a UFC champion. In his darkest moments, when t...

Bottled tells the story of English football's complicated relationship with booze through the experiences of the players who found themselves in cr...

Ernie Banks, the first-ballot Hall of Famer and All-Century Team shortstop, played in fourteen All-Star Games, won two MVPs and a Gold Glove Award,...

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...