Usually by a blow to the abdomen. Think a football being blasted into you, but sometimes it can happen when you fall to the ground heavily. The impact causes the pressure to change in the diaphragm, ...

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A cricket ball is round and hard, right? Well, not exactly. Many players claim the white balls used for limited-overs games ...

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About the data: The data used to create this map comes from official statistics released by the Department of Transport. It covers the years 1999 to 2008 but only for those incidents where there was ...

In the modern age of football there are many different roles and jobs a defender can have. And a wonderful sight in the game is seeing the wing-back fly up and down the touchline terrorising the ...

On Saturday against Manchester City, Arsenal's Robert Pires and Thierry Henry were aiming to re-create an infamous penalty ...

Mark McCormack was the undisputed king of sports marketing. The former lawyer signed up Arnold Palmer as his first client in 1960 and went on to become the "most powerful man in sport", according to ...

Traditional rugby boots are very similar to football boots, but the thing that makes them different is a high cut designed to ...

A good way to monitor your improvement is to time yourself and see if you can get quicker each time you do it.

Wingers, wide midfielders, call them what you like, they are some of the most exciting players around. Ryan Giggs at Manchester United, Shaun Wright-Phillips or Damien Duff at Chelsea. It is a varied ...