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The King and I
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DK in NY
It started as an interview with Don King. But in the middle of a remarkable two days in New York, Kevin Mitchell ran into Muhammad Ali and Louis Farrakhan - and got to listen to Will Smith doing impressions of Ali over the phone.
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The OSM 10
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The 10 greatest cheats in sporting history
Jon Henderson picks this month's 10. And even Maradona and Ben Johnson can't top this chart.
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Last months 10
Your comments on Oliver Irish's nominations for the 10 worst fashion statements in the history of sport.
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Win VIP trip to final Ashes test
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Competition: Watch three days of the final Ashes test
OSM has teamed up with Scrumpy Jack for this month's competition. Closing date 18 July.
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Faldo: I was a miserable bugger
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Open season
After a five-year 'classic midlife crisis' which threw his game and his private life into turmoil, Nick Faldo is marrying again. Here he opens up about his tangled, misunderstood life, on and off the course.
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Wrestling's wonderwoman
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Enter the dragon
She plays the cello, has posed nude for Playboy and is the world's most notorious female wrestler. Duncan Campbell meets Chyna, conqueror of men... and their stereotypes.
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Laura Thompson celebrates the Derby
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The grander national
After a long period of decline the Derby this year regained its place as one of England's greatest days out. Laura Thompson celebrates the past and present of a race that was nearly called the Bunbury.
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Wimbledon 1956
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Triumphing over prejudice
Angela Buxton was a British Jew, Althea Gibson a black American. Both found their sporting careers blighted by racial discrimination. But in 1956 they found a way to fight back - by joining forces and winning a Wimbledon title.
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Social climber
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Punk rock star
The world's most exciting climber is a 20-year-old from Cumbria with model looks and an appetite for the high life - in every sense. Can anything hold Leo Houlding back?
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OSM back flick
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When the chips are down
Victoria Coren's everyday tale of poker folk.
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An Observer classic: 4 August 1985
Christopher Brasher, The Observer's athletics correspondent, and the pacemaker for the first sub-four minute mile, hailed Steve Cram's natural talent and tactical genius when he broke the world record - and predicted that he would go even faster.
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Common ground
Those unlikely sporting links.
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Site unseen
Sporting websites worth a visit.
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Contender
Leon Haslam, motorcyclist.
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How to... Perform a pit stop in less than eight seconds
Phill Spencer, Chief mechanic, Jordan team.
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My favourite... surfing spots
Dan Luger
Rugby union player.
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My team
Former Prime Minister John Major on Surrey C.C.C.
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Numbers game
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The par score at the first hole of Royal Lytham and St Annes golf course, the venue for this year's Open Championship - Lytham is the only Open course which begins with a par three.
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OSM letters
Tendulkar is no Benito Carbone
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Quick-fire round
Amanda Stretton, the new face of Foster's, is a motorsport commentator for Channel 4.
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Underrated
Doubles tennis.
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Worth going to see
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December 2007