More than the Score

Scotty James is already one of the greatest snowboarders of all time. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, he won bronze in the halfpipe before following that up with a silver in Beijing four years later. At the age of 31, he's aiming to complete his set of medals by winning gold at the Games in Milan-Cortina. Ahead of the event in Italy, Ade Adedoyin spoke to Ski Sunday's Tim Warwood about...

For decades, players, staff and fans have made long, arduous pilgrimages across the globe in the name of sport and elite competition. In 2026, the men's football World Cup takes place across North and Central America, while earlier this year more than 35,000 England cricket fans made the journey from the UK to Australia to watch their team in the men's Ashes. Tommy Lamb was one of those - we hear...

Real Madrid, Manchester United and Celtic have all parted company with their head coach in 2025 while New Zealand's dismissal of Scott Robertson sent shockwaves around international rugby union. Elsewhere, Buffalo Bills' Sean McDermott became the eighth NFL head coach to leave their position in the month of January and the 10th since the start of the season. That was after Buffalo became the first...

At just 22 years old, Cam Little's shirt is already on display in the NFL's Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. That’s after the Jacksonville Jaguars kicker converted a record breaking 68-yard field goal in a game against the Las Vegas Raiders during the 2025 regular season. What's all the more remarkable is Little didn't see himself taking up a career in the NFL - his initial ambition was...

Roger Federer once dubbed the Australian Open the "happy Slam" of the tennis calendar. It takes place in the middle of January, in the warm, sunny climes of Melbourne Park, a world away from the cold winters of northern Europe. But as the first Grand Slam of the year gets underway, does the Aussie Open still live up to its nickname? Ed Harry discusses the tournament's place in the calendar with BB...

This year's Africa Cup of Nations, or Afcon, has been dominated by the continent's big teams. Mohamed Salah and Victor Osimhen helped Nigeria and Egypt reach the semi-finals, while the likes of Achraf Hakimi and Sadio Mane will face off when hosts Morocco take on Senegal in the final. With Africa's superstars seemingly in top form, can they keep it up at this summer's World Cup - and could an Afri...

Lindsey Vonn retired from skiing in 2019 aged 34, having been arguably the biggest name in the sport over the previous two decades. She won 20 World Cup titles, including being crowned overall champion four times, and claimed downhill gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. But, in an Instagram post announcing the end of her career, Vonn said "my body is broken beyond repair", adding that "...

What’s it like to follow a family member into professional football? Ghanaian legend Abedi Pele and his sons André, Jordan, and Ibrahim Ayew all played at the highest level. There's also George Weah - the only African player to win the Ballon d'or. His son Timothy plays for USA. Zinedine Zidane’s son Luca has been playing for Algeria at Afcon, while Guiliano Simeone plays under his father at Atlet...

During Lionel Messi's tour of India last year, he witnessed the unveiling of a 70ft statue of himself in Kolkata. It's reportedly the biggest-ever statue of an athlete - but does that make it any better? Why are sculptures such a popular choice for honouring sporting greats, and what gives them their power? Tom Murphy's sculptures have become a huge part of Liverpool's cultural identity. They can...

As England's men's cricketers lose another Ashes series in Australia what are the most one-sided rivalries in sport? Since 1945, England's men's cricketers have managed just five series wins down under. Ahead of this weekend's NFC playoff, Green Bay Packers have won 26 of their last 32 meetings at Chicago Bears' Soldier Field - that includes winning 14 of their last 16 meetings there. But are cont...

The FA Cup third round is where some of English football's biggest clubs take on teams of far humbler means. This weekend, for instance, sees reigning FA Cup champions Crystal Palace travel to Macclesfield of the National League North - a team ranked five divisions and 117 places below them in the English league system. Meanwhile, fan-owned Exeter City visit the opulent surroundings of Manchester...

Netherlands and Manchester City defender Kerstin Casparij says it's important to her to be a role model to the LGBTQ+ community. Growing up in a small town in the north of the Netherlands, Casparij says she didn't know "being gay was even an option". Now she has gone on to carve out a successful career in the Women's Super League, starring in a Manchester City side that sit top of the table, she w...

Isaac Odugbesan or Oba Femi as he's known in WWE is making waves in the world's largest professional wrestling company. He's a former Track and Field star in the US collegiate system and is a current NXT Champion, which is WWE's developmental branch. He tells the BBC’s Isaac Fanin, how he got involved in wrestling, why the Black Panther movies are important in representing African cultures to a la...

Before and after every game, Premier League managers speak to reporters and journalists, through the good times, the bad times and even the times when they're close to getting sacked. But how important are commitments to the media and can an interview make the difference between winning the support of the fans and losing it? Former Rangers, Brentford and QPR manager, Mark Warburton tells John Benn...

Jeff Guan is a 21-year-old Australian golfer who, one week after debuting on the US PGA tour, was struck by a golf ball at a pro-am event, which led to him losing his sight in his left eye. Just one year later, he made his return to professional competition. In November, we spoke to him about how the accident changed his life, and why he's still amibitious about his future in the sport. This pod a...

A growing issue in football is so-called 'bomb squads' - groups of players that football clubs exclude from first-team training after deciding their services are no longer required. The Premier League has had several high-profile examples of this treatment this season, including Raheem Sterling at Chelsea and Jadon Sancho at Manchester United. Back in October, More than the Score spoke to two men...

Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis is the biggest star in athletics. At the 2025 World Athletics Championships, he produced one of the year's greatest moments of sporting theatre as he broke the world record for the 14th time in his career. But how did he come to dominate the event to such an extent? In the latest instalment of our look back at 2025, Ed Harry and Ade Adedoyin discuss Duplantis's astonishing...

Victor Wembanyama is arguably the hottest property in basketball right now. The San Antonio Spurs centre was top pick in the 2023 NBA draft, then named Rookie of the Year in 2024, and helped France win silver at the 2024 Olympics. Part of what makes him an extraordinary athlete is his size. He's officially listed as seven foot five inches tall - but some reports say that, at the age of 21, he's st...

In 2025, Esme Morgan and Ashleigh Plumptre both tasted victory at two of the biggest tournaments in women's football. Morgan helped England win back-to-back European Championships, while Plumptre was part of the Nigeria side that beat host nation Morocco to lift the Women's Africa Cup of Nations for the 10th time. As we continue our look back at highlights from 2025, Lee James revisits Morgan and...

Cecilia Braekhus retired from boxing in 2025 at the age of 44, after defeating Ema Kozin to become a two-weight world champion. She won 39 of her 42 professional contests in a career stretching back to 2007, and spent more than a decade as the undisputed world welterweight champion - but it's her achievements outside the ring that may be even more impressive. For much of her career, she wasn't all...

In October, Flavor Flav, the co-founder of Grammy-winning hip hop group Public Enemy, announced he had agreed to be the official hypeman for the US bobsleigh and skeleton teams at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. As we look back on our favourite episodes from 2025, we revisit his conversation with Clare Williamson, where he explained what drew him to the sport, and what it felt like to take to t...

2025 was the year that Cristiano Ronaldo became the first billionaire footballer. As we look back on our favourite conversations from the past year, we're revisiting a chat with Sam Carp, head of editorial at SportsPro, a company that produces an annual list of the 50 most marketable athletes in sport. Ade Adedoyin and John Bennett find out what makes some athletes more lucrative than others, and...

Before the Shanghai Masters tournament in October, Valentin Vacherot was the 204th ranked men's tennis player in the world. He'd never won a title on the main ATP tour, and had only played one Grand Slam match in his career. Then, over the course of a week, his entire career changed. He recorded victories over some of the world's top players - including Novak Djokovic - before reaching the final,...

We're looking back at some of the most memorable stories from More than the Score in 2025, starting with Jamie Lawrence, who aged 22 was serving his second prison sentence. His future prospects looked bleak, until he was given an unexpected opportunity - and eventually worked his way to becoming a Premier League footballer. Jamie talks to us about how he turned his life around, and his plans to tu...

Ivory Coast, Manchester City and Barcelona legend Yaya Toure chats at length with the BBC’s Kelly Somers about his upbringing and leaving Africa, his playing career and his coaching ambitions. Ed Harry is also joined by George Addo to discuss what Toure means to Africa, the possibility of Toure managing his nation one day and the prospect of success for Ivory Coast at Afcon 2025. More than the Sco...