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Doesn’t feel much like summer just yet, but the baseball season (cue rounders jokes) has already started, with the star-studded Dodgers beating the Padres in Seoul. The season begins proper next Thursday, with LA likely to be the clear favourite. For many other teams it will be a year of...

The Western fascination with populist leaders sporting strange blonde bouffants is alive and well in the Netherlands. Exit poll has Wilders’ PVV the largest party.

According to the BBC, there has been a coup in Gabon, with the military placing President Ali Bongo under house arrest. Seems futile. Surely he'll just say 'Uju Buju Suck another Juju' or 'Hocus Pocus Fishbones Chokeus' and vanish into thin air? One for the olds...

Apologies if posted elsewhere, but I thought this deserved a thread of its own, not just because of the content but also to applaud its creators. Spine tingling.

County Championship starts tomorrow. Opening round sees current Champions Surrey up at Old Trafford (Dom Sibley back) for the Easter weekend. Top two last year and, strangely, that was the very same fixture that closed the season. No Roses game for some reason… Good luck to all.

The polls are open in Wakefield and in Tiverton and Honiton and the results should be heard in the early hours of tomorrow. Both by-elections result from individual wrongs, but I doubt those will figure highly in voters’ minds. In Wakefield, the Conservatives are defending a 3,358 majority...

Wonderfully evocative footage from the early 1970s.

Worth watching to the very end.

Season starts proper tomorrow. Hard to see beyond the LA Dodgers, assuming they can keep their roster fit, but maybe the Blue Jays can challenge from the American League. Still don’t think the White Sox have enough to go further into the post season, unfortunately. With the cricket season...

The British composer Alan Hawkshaw passed away today, aged 84. Who he? You say. Never heard of him. Neither had I, in truth, but he worked with many famous people and created quite a bit of television music that people would instantly recognize in their lives: for example, Grange Hill, Channel...

Thought I’d wait until the Summer 2021 window closed before starting this one. For me, this is the player we should be signing as Fernandinho’s replacement next summer. He made his debut for Ajax at 16, beating the record set by Seedorf, and is already a full international with Champions League...

Thoroughly deserved new contract.

Lots of huff and lots of puff but little quality in either final third. Edouard just knocked something off his own value.

Season officially starts tomorrow, with the Dodgers understandably favourites with the bookmakers, but it’s a long time now since any team has won in consecutive years, so maybe Atlanta will go one step further this year: Braves v Yankees in the World Series It was finally looking promising for...

Strange to think that it is 40 years this evening that John Lennon was murdered. He was only 40 himself at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_John_Lennon

Sad to read of his passing. A talented player in his own right and the voice of golf for many a year; a gifted commentator who knew when to be quiet and allow the spectacle to speak.

Truly the Benjamin Button of footballers. Still looks fitter than a fair few of his teammates and as ever keeps the simple things simple.

Patrick Vieira’s OGC Nice sit at the top of the table with two wins, albeit not everyone has yet started let alone played two games. Looking forward to seeing how they get on this season. Vieira has brought Rony Lopes back to France, Schneiderlin should give them defensive solidity, and in...

Quite a powerful message

Couldn’t see a suitable thread to put this in(Mods, do please merge if there is one) but saw this striking picture on Twitter. Not Athens but 1908 Manchester and the demolition of the Royal Infirmary.