The makers of the documentary series Celtics City, on the most successful basketball team in NBA history, hoped to replicate the popularity of ESPN’s The Last Dance. They did not.
A Fremantle Dockers hero for many seasons, dual Brownlow medallist Nat Fyfe is proof that no matter how godlike some athletes may appear, they are all mortal.
A crusade for nuclear disarmament disguised as a sports film, Amazing Grace and Chuck was also a stinker – but it certainly captured the zeitgeist of a generation fearing world’s end.
Forty years on, a fast and ferocious title fight between Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas ‘The Hit Man’ Hearns remains one of the greatest bouts in boxing’s history.
Failing to qualify for Tokyo 2020 saw Moesha Johnson turn her focus from the pool to open water swimming – a move that led to Olympic silver and now two individual world titles.
Once a dominant force in Test cricket, the West Indies has in recent years dissolved into a hapless team rent by administrative problems, disunity and lack of funds.
The death of a still-young sporting hero brings with it breathy accolades and gauche clichés, but it also delivers a strange sense of disbelief and bafflement for the fans left behind.
From humble beginnings in a highly segregated city, Arthur Ashe rose to become the first, and only, Black man to win a Wimbledon singles title – on July 5, 1975.
William Hazlitt’s account of an 1821 bare-knuckle fight in an English field is considered one of the first examples of modern sportswriting, and remains a triumphant example of the genre.
