Rasmussen admits 12 year doping January 31, 2013 CYCLING: Denmark’s Michael Rasmussen has admitted using performance-enhancing drugs from 1998 to 2010 and announced his retirement with immediate effect.
France hitting their peak at perfect time to land Six Nations January 31, 2013 WILLIAM CHRIMES AND BEN CLEMINSON PREVIEW THE SIX NATIONS AND PREMIER LEAGUE THIS YEAR’S Six Nations promises to be another thrilling northern hemisphere battle with England and France jostling for favouritism. Wales are the defending Grand Slam champions, yet have had a disastrous run of it with an almost record-breaking losing run of seven games. [...]
The Road to Cheltenham January 31, 2013 WWW.STARSPORTSBET.CO.UK 08000 521 321 THE Ryanair Chase is always one of the most competitive races of the entire Cheltenham Festival and this year’s renewal looks no different. The main problem is trying to work out who runs. Flemenstar would go off favourite if lining up, but a win in next weekend’s Irish Hennessy will surely [...]
Ravens’ resurgence can deliver Super Bowl January 31, 2013 NEW ORLEANS hosts the 47th edition of America’s greatest sporting showpiece when the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers meet in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. For the first time in NFL Super Bowl history the opposing head coaches are brothers as the Ravens’ John and the 49ers’ Jim Harbaugh go into battle. The only other occasion [...]
Captain Conan too short in Sandown feature January 31, 2013 THE SNOW might have gone but now racing has to deal with the aftermath and, with more rain forecast over the next couple of days, there is likely to be fresh disruption to the cards at Sandown and Ffos Las, where the highlights are the Scilly Isles Novices’ Chase and the Welsh Champion Hurdle respectively. [...]
Blue Square Bet Winter Carnival January 31, 2013 We had some more thrilling finishes in last week’s Blue Square Bet Sprint Series races at Lingfield and it’s great to see full fields and split divisions once more. The first division (2.20pm) sees last week’s first and second return. Violet Jordan’s charge Frognal won by two lengths last Saturday in round four’s second division, [...]
Denzel saves turbulent drama January 31, 2013 FILM FLIGHT Cert 15 *** Flight probably isn’t the film you’re expecting. For the first 15 minutes, Cast Away director Robert Zemeckis flexes his live-action, big-effects muscles but following the knuckle-whitening opener, it becomes less a dramatic thriller than a slow-paced portrait of alcohol addiction. We meet Denzel Washington’s Captain Whip Whitaker as he wakes [...]
Murray’s FDR breathes life into flabby period drama January 31, 2013 FILM HYDE PARK ON HUDSON Cert 15 *** Bill Murray sits at the centre of this flabby period drama like a grotesque but lovable toad in a dangerously shallow pond. Hyde Park on Hudson follows the budding sexual relationship between President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Murray) and his distant cousin Margaret “Daisy” Suckley during the visit [...]
Arts round-up: Manet, Picasso and Jurgen Teller exhibitions January 31, 2013 MANET: PORTRAYING LIFE Royal Academy of Arts Manet: Portraying Life is the first major UK exhibition dedicated to the portraiture of the great French painter Édouard Manet. The exhibition brings together works from America, Europe and Asia, including the famed The Railing he created in 1873. Don’t expect to see his most famous pieces though [...]
Overcome the January lull at these drink dens January 31, 2013 London always experiences a bit of a lull in January, but there are still some notable new arrivals you may have missed around town. The first of such is The Luggage Room, nestled neatly into the north-eastern corner of Grosvenor Square, just next to Maze and Maze Grill. It takes its name from its previous [...]
