“The column is where the stars of the 20th-century sports page usually conducted their business, and even with longform now in flower, there are still those scribes who feel the column’s magnetic pull.

Maybe there is a game more romanticised, more mythologised than rugby.

The season-ending episode of Downton Abbey was a ratings success in the US, if not a fan favourite.

THERE’S a moment in Ken Burns’ outstanding documentary series, ‘Baseball’, when Buck O’Neil, an old coach and manager, muses on the impossible glamour that was Manhattan in the 40s and 50s with a faraway look in the eye.

LAST night some of you may have caught ‘Red Riding’ on Channel 4, a new drama based on the novels of David Peace.