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Sports personality
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In it for the long run
Paula Radcliffe is fast becoming the greatest athlete Britain has ever produced - and she says the best is yet to come. In an exclusive interview, she talks about drug cheats, her triumphant return after two crushing defeats - and why she'll never give up chocolate
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Boom Boom Boris
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Dosh and Becks
A court heard last month how Boris Becker defrauded the taxman. But the reasons why - which lie in his tangled private life and a childhood packed with obsessions - are more revealing
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Treading water
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Sync or swim
They've won hatfuls of Olympic medals and claim to be the world's most complete athletes. In Las Vegas, no one sniggers at this troupe of synchronised swimmers - because they're the stars of the most astonishing show in town
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Sports films
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Budd the wiser
He wrote Brando's classic lines in On The Waterfront, raised hell with F. Scott Fitzgerald, thumped Hemingway and has seen every great fighter of the past 50 years. Now, at 88, Budd Schulberg is being wooed by Spielberg - but it's boxing, not the movies, that remains his life's passion
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Triumph and despair
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Chris Boardman
In our series in which sportsmen and women describe life-defining moments, the champion cyclist describes what he learnt from the birth of his fifth child
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Observer classic
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White gloves, tuxedo and devotion
When snooker was king, even the referees were stars. Julie Welch met two top pocket dictators
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The top ten
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The top ten crybabies
A contemprary lachrymose list - not headed by Gazza
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Last months ten
Last month OSM editor Matt Tench and Jamie Jackson nominated the 10 Greatest Rivalries in the History of Sport. Here's what you thought
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Regulars
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Contender
Aaron Brooks, American footballer
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Letters
Reader Stewart Hall's request last month for identification of the St Helens Challenge Cup winning team in 1956 produced a huge response
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Off the rails
Lucy Cavendish: He says I'm a smug liar. I am and I don't care.
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Backflick
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How to...
Be superfit. By James Cracknell
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Footballers and Christmas parties
Disgusting behaviour and lederhosen
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Man of Reason
W.W. Bellows goes to AA with little but Bono on his mind
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My teams
Alistair McGowan: Leeds United, Coventry City, Norwich City, Nottingham Forest, Leicester City, Spurs, Fulham...
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Site Unseen
Virtually Poker | Downhill Skiing | Artic golf | Wink Wink
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The numbers game
The week in figures
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What's on TV
December's live sport on the box
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December 2007