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The American edition
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Novelist and former pro basketball player Ben Markovits examines how sport has become embedded in the America's soul and answers the questions that puzzle so many of us. Why are statistics so vital? And why is a draw such an affront to the American psyche?
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Boxing and Hollywood
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Fights, camera, action
Kevin Mitchell explores Hollywood's guilty fascination with boxing. From Edison's flickering images to Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby, ring and screen can be a perfect fit - with greed and hype behind the scenes.
The top five boxing movies
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Meet the real million dollar baby
Ann Wolfe's punch is so ferocious that other women won't fight her - so she's going into the ring against a man. Joanna Walters visited the Texas gym where this graduate from the school of hard knocks reigns supreme.
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Golf
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Golden wonder
As Jack Nicklaus prepares for the start of his 38th and final Open at St Andrews, we celebrate the life of an American sporting great through the story of each of his unprecedented 18 Major victories. Special report by Nick Greenslade and Lee Honeyball.
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Race issues
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The long game
Shut for so long from mainstream sport, black athletes now dominate in America. But where are the black coaches? Why are the fans mostly white? Racial equality still has a long way to go in the land of the free,says Jon Fasman.
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Horseriding
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A stable condition
From an early age, Pulitzer prizewinner Jane Smiley has been infatuated with horses. Here she tells how racing's grace led her to breed the animals, and reflects on the sport's intimate connection with death and danger.
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Other features
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America's own Gary Neville
The USA are the world's best women's football side - and right-back Heather Mitts is their star.
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On being ... Martina Navratilova
She has never regretted taking American citizenship, but she does worry about the politics of her adopted country.
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On being ... Michael Phelps
He won six Olympic golds in the pool in Athens - and he's only just turned 20. How does he cope with the pressure to do even better, both from the public and from himself?
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My team
It's a sports-mad nation, from the White House to Hollywood. And there's even the occasional star who pledges allegiance to a team from this side of the Atlantic...
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Regulars
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Patriot game
Ed Smith: The England batsman and author on how cricket, once so popular in America, was squeezed out by baseball.
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Triumph and despair: Mike Tyson
On the eve of his final fight, the boxer spoke exclusively to OSM about slavery, God and how he did too much, too young.
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Heroes and villains: Willie Mays
The charismatic baseball star's heroics in the first coast-to-coast televised World Series became a symbol in the struggle for racial equality. Rob Steen profiles the man who is still celebrated half a century later for 'The Catch'.
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First and last
William Perry, football player
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July's 10
The ten greatest moments in US sport.
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Second thoughts
Double helping of Cherry
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Editorial
America dreaming
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Letters
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December 2007