IT’S nearly half a century since Billie Jean King — then 29 — humiliated the chauvinist braggart Bobby Riggs — then 55 — by winning all three sets in a $100,000 battle-of-the-sexes showdown in Houston. 

RJ Ellory puts you deep in the heart of Texas in his new crime thriller Mockingbird Songs — a simple backstory is dealt with quickly enough to put you straight into the main plot.

As Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane ride in as the FAI’s new sheriff and deputy, Dave Kenny looks at some other memorable good cop/bad cop pairings from the archives, or should that be ‘bad cop/bad bad cop’?

The greatest woman-beats-man match in tennis history could have been an elaborate mob fraud, according to a new report from ESPN.