The Department of Education has quietly dropped rounders from the GCSE curriculum. Claire Cohen (once a mean bowler) is appalled Well, consider me well and truly bowled over. The Department of ...

On the field lithe young men in tight silk suits preen, stretch, swing bats and throw balls. They look awesome, each one kitted out in hundreds of dollars worth of clothes and equipment; they are ...

Now that the Los Angeles Dodgers recently defeated the New York Yankees in this year’s World Series, it’s time to explore the origin of baseball and of the names of these two teams. The story begins ...