The Sporting Owl

Tomorrow night, at 2am UK time, Lance Armstrong will launch a heavily-funded PR campaign to repair his sporting reputation and (more importa...

One of the dilemmas facing any serious professional athlete is "how should I respond when I inevitably test positive for performance-en...

In Monday's F42 high jump final, Iliesa Delana and Łukasz Mamczarz cleared 1.74m to earn gold and bronze medals for Fiji and Poland. Th...

A British Class 6 table tennis player ranked fifth in the world underperformed and was knocked out in the second round at the Paralympics. ...

On paper, Matt Stutzman comes across as a dyed-in-the-flannel redneck. The official London 2012 website lists his hobbies as "cars...

We hate swimming backstroke. It seems unnecessarily awkward and splashy, you can't see where you're going and the timing is tricky. ...

The seventh podcast from The Sporting Owl is packed with a preponderance of Paralympics ponderings. After bidding a fond farewell to Andrew ...

We at Owl Towers are looking forward to the forthcoming Paralympics for a veritable plethora of reasons, but primarily because we'll get...

Bradford on Avon was once a Roman settlement and wealthy hotbed of wool production, but (perhaps due to school history funding cuts) is now ...

Episode 6 of the Sporting Owl takes place in the abyss between Olympics and Paralympics and features a searing riposte on Lance 'drugfac...