Sport

• ’Fishing for Answers’ about the Thames’s future

  

  A top angling blogger on policies that will ’make a real difference’

• The playing’s the thing

  

  As Harold Pinter knew, there can be thrilling theatre on the cricket field

• A gripping battle for European supremacy

  

  Who will triumph in the Six Nations rugby championship?

• Archive Choice: Change in the masculine world of shooting

  

  The women-only collective that’s serious about shooting

• Boldly going where no man has fly-fished before

  

  Hidden lakes and diabolical rapids in a Chilean trout-fishing haven

• The historic heart of Florida horse racing

  

  Though it scarcely sees any racing these days, Hialeah Park is still a must-see destination for Turf fans

• Fischer ski boots

  

  £450

• A fat chub – then home for coffee and mince pies

  

  A top angling blogger ruminates on the pleasures of winter fishing

• It’s Monte Carlo or bust for motorsport fans

  

  The annual rally – an event steeped in history – returns next month

• The new bane of football managers’ lives

  

  What tweets will footballers be treating us to over the Christmas period?

• ‘Everything aches. Mentally we are ragged‘

  

  Our man in the field reports on the exhaustion and exhilaration of completing the Mark Webber Tasmania Challenge

• ’I realise that I can’t remember which country I’m in’

  

  Pure exhaustion sets in as our man in the field slogs through day four of the Mark Webber Tasmania Challenge

• ‘My legs would barely do what they were told’

  

  It’s day three of the Mark Webber Tasmania Challenge – and this tough race is getting even tougher

• ‘We’re never going to be beat the top guys’

  

  As the Mark Webber Challenge enters its second day, our reporter is getting to grips with the race

• ‘Competitors could barely lift their legs to climb’

  

  Our intrepid reporter’s dispatch from day one of the Mark Webber Tasmania Challenge

• ‘For six hours each day we will flog ourselves’

  

  The first in a series of daily reports from a gruelling physical challenge amid spectacular scenery

• Thrilling icecapades in Manhattan

  

  New York’s ice-hockey players are taking a local tradition on the chin

• A heady blend at Newbury Racecourse

  

  The Hennessy Gold Cup sponsor has created an exquisite cognac with flavours of the past

• What do anglers do in those long winter evenings?

  

  A guest blogger on an evening of beer and fishy literature

• High-intensity men’s tennis comes to London

  

  There are high hopes, again, for Andy Murray at the ATP World Tour Final

• Can the glory days return to Liverpool FC?

  

  The Seventh Cavalry has arrived, in the shape of the club’s new American owner

• The sports day that’s like no other

  

  This madcap Marbella Club event has become known as ‘slide, putt, bang bang’

• The return of chess to a grand institution

  

  Knights, bishops, kings and queens are among the diners at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand

• Ascot hosts Britain’s richest ever race day

  

  How a young Qatari sheikh displays his passion for the turf

• The rebirth of the urban river

  

  A leading angling blogger reflects on a river’s transformation

• The rebirth of a grand hotel in a golfing town

  

  There’s excitement in St Andrews over the transformation of the Hamilton Grand

• Golf’s iron ladies prepare to do battle

  

  The northern hemisphere’s top female golfers are about to compete for the coveted Solheim Cup

• The businessmen with a passion for horses

  

  How the Wertheimer brothers combine bloodstock and fashion

• The school that teaches polo for beginners

  

  A Barbados polo club is helping novices get into the swing of the sport

• Magnificent trout fishing in British Columbia

  

  Eager anglers can get hopelessly hooked on the trout-rich Skeena river system