Sport&#39;s hottest property, a collapsed trial, and the seedy world ...
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When the football agent Paul Stretford hid a camera behind a hotel coffee-machine before a business meeting last year, he planned to reveal a campaign of bullying and blackmail
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Such are the warped judgment values presently infecting Soho Square that the main surprise at Adrian Mutu&#39;s drug hearing yesterday was that the Football Association didn&#39;t offer the cocaine
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it&#39;s the sport that won&#39;t die, no matter what. You can have gamblers, psychotic fans, spouses that blab and players who cork.
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Why you should watch: The athletes are impossibly tanned and fit, the setting couldn&#39;t be more beautiful and the competition will be fierce.
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It&#39;s one thing to win Wimbledon, the biggest trophy in tennis. Quite another to live with it. By Anja Niedringhaus, AP. That is the tricky road of risk
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Olympic Stadium has always had the lighting of a morgue. Stark and blindingly white, you could roll out a gurney and perform an autopsy at home plate - which is what&#39;s now in order, given there&#39;s been a needless death at The Big O.
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After what was billed as the day of destiny for Great Britain&#39;s success-starved players and fans alike, there was a certain sense of inevitability about the result.
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The Auburn Hill Stadium, home court of NBA&#39;s defending champs, the Detroit Pistons, has been turned into a battle field with flying cups and plastic bottles.
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And then are the nights like this, when life with Shaquille O&#39;Neal and Dwyane Wade isn&#39;t such a carefree joy ride. Caught in the fast lane that is the Dallas Mavericks&#39; offense, the Heat crashed and burned
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The trial of one brave journalist in Indonesia has implications far beyond the courtroom in Jakarta. By the time this article appears, the Central Jakarta District Court is due
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: After years of speculation and delay, one of the most extraordinary trials in legal history will finally begin this week.
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He has torn apart his team, his life and the world that revolves around him. Now that the latest bullet has whizzed past Kobe Bryant&#39;s head, you have to wonder if he can see the smoldering ruins of what he&#39;s left behind.
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THE trial of three men accused of blackmailing Wayne Rooney&#39;s agent collapsed yesterday after he tried to fool the court. Paul Stretford claimed that former Olympic boxer John Hyland and
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The month of August was rife with arrogance, malfeasance and criminality in professional sports, but all is not lost for cynical fans seeking a new start.
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Like most decent Americans, I have been sickened by the Michael Vick dogfighting debacle. There can be no excuse for torturing and abusing man's best friend -- forcing dogs to fight to the death, under penalty of death. That a high-profile athlete like Vick carried this out in the name of "sport" makes it all the more disgusting.
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Yesterday&#39;s Olympics treated us to the two extremes of athletics, the endurance race which tests the body to its limits, and the heavyweight showdown, the sprint, which is in the mind.
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Beginning Friday, Eagle, Colorado, will be filled to the max with satellite trucks and reporters from all over the world as Kobe Bryant&#39;s trial officially begins -- but the questions remain: could it all have been avoided with a simple plea -- and if so