History of Sport

The Ohio State Buckeyes have been a powerhouse in college football for decades, with numerous national championships and NFL draftees to their cred...

Sports history is no longer a marginal academic subject. It has now been recognised that sport is a significant cultural activity that matters to m...

The 2015 Rugby World Cup in England is set to be the biggest, brightest and most successful tournament to date, as the world''s top teams compete f...

Nottingham Forest On This Day revisits all the most magical and memorable moments from the club's rollercoaster history, mixing in a maelstrom of q...

2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the 1996 European Cup, hosted in England, when the national football team reached the semi-finals to be knocked ...

In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of America's most beloved sporting event-the Super Bowl-an authoritative collection of the most pivota...

''The most eccentric golf book ever'' Sports and Leisure Magazine Golf''s Strangest Rounds is an absorbing collection of bizarre tales f...

Officials of football''s world governing body, FIFA,are arrested in dramatic dawn raids in Switzerland and America. Sport has, once again, encounte...

Everton On This Day revisits all the most magical and memorable moments from the club's distinguished past, mixing in a maelstrom of quirky anecdot...

Officially endorsed by the ACO, the organisers of the annual Le Mans 24 Hours race, this sumptuous book is the fifth title in a decade-by-decade se...

On December 4, 1815, 750 ba players came together in a mighty contest on the field of Carterhaugh, near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, for what w...

During 75 seasons of baseball (1946-2020), 71 teams in 21 minor leagues represented 35 Canadian cities, playing either under the aegis of the Na...

Wildcat Wisdom for the Big Blue Nation!For more than a century, the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team has built a winning tradi...

Wildcat Wisdom for the Big Blue Nation!For more than a century, the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team has built a winning tradi...

After the desolation of the First World War, the 1920s saw a resurgence of sporting and social activity. Rugby was one of the sports that benefitte...

The Hundred Years' War is the story of the intense competition between the All Blacks and the Springboks over the past 100 years, the games they've...

Nowhere in the world was the sport of biathlon, a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle marksmanship, taken more seriously than in the Sovi...