Phil Taylor hailed the crowd at the Capital FM Arena in Nottingham as they inspired him to get back to winning ways in the Premier League of darts... more
Thanks to a trio of truly stunning displays, I regard the last 10 years as undoubtedly the greatest sporting decade of my life, says Matthew Norman... more
Horse racing: The publication of the weights for this year's John Smith's Grand National gives multi record-breaking jockey Tony McCoy the chance to fill the final blank on his CV... more
England's cricketers have good reason to be scared, and if their instinct in the days ahead is to doubt assurances of their safety from British and Indian authorities, it would be an instinct shared by me, says Matthew Norman... more
Sepp Blatter is English football's only hope, the national team's match in Trinidad was pointless, and a 23-year-olds Russian beauty's arrival in darts is momentous, says Matthew Norman... more
The Mayor's flagship policy was meant to earn £200 million a year for London's transport system - but a Standard investigation shows that there may be less than £15 million in 'profit' over five years... more
Onto this dark and gruesome world, shards of magic dust all too rarely descend to leaven the gloom and give us reason to do what Churchill knew as "keep buggering on". So it is that news emerges of preliminary discussions about the most gloriously demented bout in even boxing's history.... more