Politics and sport make uneasy, if unavoidable, bedfellows.

MMA sounds like a bug picked up during a spell in hospital and it is certainly infectious.

I was told off last week, as happens from time to time, by somebody from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

It is fair to say tennis has had its issues in recent years.

I begin with a confession. I have never really held a great interest in "American" sports.

When the Commonwealth Games open in the Gold Coast next April, reconciliation with the Aboriginal people of Australia will be the buzz word. The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation (GOLDOC) have a Reconciliation Action Plan aimed at offering opportunities to first nation Australians.

Football’s focus turns to Cardiff at the end of this week as Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain meet in the UEFA Women’s Champions League Final at Cardiff City Stadium tomorrow before the meeting on Saturday (June 3) between Juventus and Real Madrid at the National Stadium to decide this year’s winner of the men’s competition.

Some countries can make a business opportunity out of anything; others can make a fashion statement out of anything.

To be a Muslim sports personality in Britain these days is to risk suspicion and opprobrium. And perhaps even worse.

I was planning to write a column today assessing the candidates to become the President of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) at elections scheduled for Wednesday (May 31) in Düsseldorf.

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) began their process of assessing candidates to host the 2022 edition of the multi-sport event this week.

Barely five days after one organisation opened the door for a surprise Russian return, another warned it would be firmly shut on the scandal-hit nation’s chances of competing at Pyeongchang 2018 unless vast improvements were made.

From the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, the view is the same: weightlifting needs unity more than it needs anything else.

Within a few minutes of Manchester United’s victory in last night’s Europa League final, the official Manchester City website tweeted a graphic that said everything about the way sport can interact in vital fashion with life, even at, perhaps even particularly at, times of grief.