Not by the Playbook

Will there be a Premexit? The Premier League is one of the most powerful leagues in the world. English clubs always challenge for major European titles and sign the world’s best players for record transfer fees. But are the glory days of the Premier League coming to end because of Brexit? Dr Babatunde Buraimo, from Liverpool University, says there are several factors that could help keep the Premi...

Mani Djazmi is joined by two time Paralympic sprint champion Martina Caironi and Lex Gillette, who is a four time Paralympic silver medalist in the long jump. The panel discuss performances at this years Para Athletic Championships and there are exclusive interviews with Paralympic Champions Jonnie Peacock and David Behre. Five years on from the London Paralympic games, Baroness Tanni Grey Thompso...

Wimbledon on location Caroline Barker is at the All England club to bringing you closer to the action on Ladies final day. She’ll be travelling around the ground, speaking to some VIPS as well as people that make the Championship special. James Blake - Ways of Grace Former tennis world number four James Blake was waiting for a car in front of at Manhattan Hotel, when he was tackled and handcuffed...

Sportmanship in Tennis Tennis, like most sports, is no stranger to an outburst but has Bernard Tomic comments about being bored and Daniil Medvedev’s outburst at the umpire, a sign that respect and sportsmanship has gone from the once gentlemanly game. We’ll ask former world number four James Blake, if he thinks the sport’s governing body needs to clamp down on these incidents like this or is this...

The Fastest Hands in the West Andre Kajlich tells us about becoming the first para athlete to complete the 4,800 kilometre ‘Race Across America’. Andre competed on a handcycle, and finished the race in 12 days and 16 hours. One of only 14 to finish from the original 39 competitors. Bony’s banging beats The Premier League table isn’t the only the chart Manchester City striker Wilfred Bony will be i...

The Power of Two In 2014, US Olympian Alysia Montaño ran at the US Track and Field championships whilst eight months pregnant. The five-time national champion wanted to compete seven weeks before she was due to give birth to her first child. On Thursday, she ran at the same event four months pregnant with her second child. Does she feel her message “exercising during pregnancy is actually much bet...

The Real Miracle on Ice Craig Cunningham suffered a heart attack on the ice, just before the start of the national anthems at an AHL game. Whilst in hospital, Craig contracted an infection. In order to save his life, he had his leg amputated. Craig continues to recover but occasionally plays hockey thanks to an adapted prosthetic leg. He now works as a scout for the Arizona Coyotes. Walking corpse...

The Greatest striker to never exist He's won everything in world football, a cult hero with a significant social media following, now he's helping people tackle the issue of mental health. But the most extraordinary thing about striker Ivica Strok is... He doesn't exist! Strok came to 'life' in computer game Football Manager and for gamer Jonny Sharples, Strok helped him through a personal tragedy...

Former Miami Dolphins tight end Dan Johnson tells us he has taken more painkillers than any other player in the history of the game, he took so many he earned the nickname “King of Pain”. He played in the 1984 Superbowl, catching a touchdown pass from the great Dan Marino, but the effects of a career on painkillers left him bed ridden for many years. Things got so bad that he considered suicide, D...

On Monday, 22 people lost their lives in a terrorist attack in Manchester. Caroline Barker is at one of the city's biggest sporting events to see how the city is slowly recovering

The US gymnastic who competes whilst receiving chemotherapy, are non binary athletes rights being ignored and the delights of a doppelganger.

From October, players will be allowed to wear the hijab whilst competing. How will this help women's basketball going forward?

Caroline Barkers presents the global sports show, exploring the history of the NFL draft.

NBA basketball star Isiah Thomas played for the Boston Celtics in a playoff game the day after his sister died in a fatal car accident. In light of this and Prince Harry's comments that boxing helped him get over the death of his mother, Princess Diana, we ask how good sport is as a healer for coping with loss? We speak to the former three-weight boxing world champion Duke McKenzie, who lost a bro...

From pitch to boardroom Having won just about all there is to win in European football, the former Ivory Coast international Didier Drogba is breaking new ground. At the age of 39, he's signed up with the Phoenix Rising who play in the second tier of the north American game, as player and co-owner. He's next goal - to take them to the top flight of the north American game. He also tells us about h...

Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon takes us on a journey from his childhood in Lagos to NBA champion. One of the greatest players in basketball history, he not only became an African sporting hero but one of the highest profile Muslim athletes. Where the Lions sleep tonight: Not long now before thousands of British and Irish rugby fans make the journey to New Zealand and many hotels in the host cities an...

Natasha Coates suffers with a rare condition called Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. It means her body struggles to fight disease and makes her allergic to many everyday things, including exercise. However it hasn't stopped Natasha pursuing her sporting dreams. Although not a Paralympic discipline, last week Natasha won a medal on every piece of apparatus at the British championships. Despite spendi...

When Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab were in power in Somalia they banned football. In 2014 US director JR Biersmith started filming ‘Men in the Arena' which documents this football-mad nation on its long road back to normality on and off the pitch. It is finally released next month. The story is told through the eyes of two its players Sa'ad Hussein and Saadiq Mohammed. The first Saudi woman t...

Does what's happened with Durban tell us more about the preparedness of cities to host major sporting events or for sports governing bodies to attract suitable bidders. Or has the public fallen out of love with hosting major sporting events? March Madness: The billion dollar college basketball tournament ‘March Madness’ is just underway. We look at this remarkable competition and the place it hold...

Etchegaray Nguluwe has represented Namibia in Paralympic sport at the World Championships and Commonwealth Games. But, born with a club foot, he struggled to keep up in a category where many of the men he raced against had one leg amputated below the knee and used a prosthetic blade. In March of 2016, Etchegaray took the decision to have his foot removed. He has now been fitted with his own blade...

Former college basketball star Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir tells us why she's being prevented from pursuing a professional career because she plays wearing a hijab. Wearing a hijab is banned by FIBA, the governing body for basketball. Sporting Identity: The Proud Americans Representing Israel The World Baseball Classic, the most prestigious competition in international baseball, starts next week. Israel h...

After Claudio Ranieri is sacked just nine months after winning the most unlikely of league titles we look at the cold hard analytics behind when a manager should be sacked. We are joined by Professor Adrian Bell author of the paper ‘The Performance of Football Managers: Skill or Luck?. We also take a look at the state of the modern game if emotion and sentiment are removed. The Medical Power of th...

After Donald Trump commented that getting to know the Japanese PM on the golf course is the best way to begin their diplomatic discussions, we look back on when political policy has been born on the golf course. We hear from a golf writer who has played two rounds with Trump, he claims that POTUS is the best golfer ever to be sworn in. Comedians Tim Vine (Sutton United) and Ian Stone (Arsenal) fac...

One of rugby union's finest players, the South African, Joost van der Westhuizen died this week at the age of 45. Diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2011, he set up the J9 Foundation to raise funds for awareness of MND and help support families of those with the disease, dedicating as much commitment and energy as he did to his rugby career. Dr Franclo Henning - the Chairman of the Motor Neur...

A special show from Super Bowl LI in Houston Photo: Players celebrate after winning the Vince Lombardi Trophy (Credit: Christian Petersen/Getty Images)