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Boxing: Boxing's preacher prepares to leave pulpit

Billy Graham, the maverick trainer who has guided Ricky Hatton's rise, will end a career on Friday that has taken him from Salford to Vegas, writes Steve Bunce

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Boxing: Hatton in trainer split

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Ricky Hatton will head into his world title clash against Paulie Malignaggi in November without trainer Billy Graham in his corner after confirming their 11-year partnership has come to an end.

Viva Espana: Democracy's influence on a sporting nation

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Carlos Sastre, Rafael Nadal and Spain's footballers have turned the nation from a sleeping to a sporting giant this summer. Pete Jenson in Madrid uncovers the roots of a modern awakening

Tour de France: Fourth positive test reported on last day

Monday, 28 July 2008

Ten years after the Festina scandals rocked the Tour de France, the sport's battle against doping is inching forward – but very slowly and last night with a fresh lurch into reverse gear.

Boxing: Margarito crushes Cotto in classic

Monday, 28 July 2008

Antonio Margarito put a crushing end to the bold plans of Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Margarito reduced the previously unbeaten Cotto to a bloody wreck in the 11th round of their World Boxing Association welterweight title fight at the MGM. In the weeks before the fight experts predicted a classic, a throwback to the sport's glorious past and that is exactly what the fight was.

Humble star who defied lure of designer drugs

Monday, 28 July 2008

In his finest hour Carlos Sastre honoured the brother-in-law who lost a fight with addiction. By Alasdair Fotheringham

Tour de France: Sastre the honest journeyman hits back for Tour's credibility

Monday, 28 July 2008

First it was Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros, then football's European Championship, then Nadal at Wimbledon. Yesterday Carlos Sastre continued Spain's rampant run of sporting success this year with a victory in the Tour de France as stunning as it was unexpected.

Beijing opens Olympic village

Monday, 28 July 2008

The Athletes' Village for the Beijing Olympics held its opening ceremony yesterday, an all-Chinese curtain raiser with basketball stars Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi heading a 265-member delegation of athletes and officials.

Sebastian Coe: Lord of the Flyers

Sunday, 27 July 2008

We don't want it to be like Wimbledon, when people grab a racket for about a week then put it back in the cupboard

Inside Lines: Why Beijing is no T-party for the Brits

Sunday, 27 July 2008

Forty years ago it was the clenched fist and black glove which marked the first Olympic political protest, in Mexico City. Will another hand gesture become a symbol of the Beijing Games?

Book Of The Week: Talking of Sport, by Dick Booth

Sunday, 27 July 2008

The Buggles were wrong; video didn't kill the radio star, and nor did television, at least as far as sport is concerned. After the first live sports broadcast, the Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier heavyweight fight in America in 1921, there was no putting the genie back in the bottle.

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