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Image: APThe NFL is going through one of its greatest quarterback renaissances in league history. It’s never been clearer, you can’t win a Super Bowl without an elite quarterback. Of the eight teams remaining in the postseason, only one…

I THINK it was the celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson who said something about reading a book that “makes my whole body so cold, no fire can warm me.”  Or were they just the tortured mutterings of my sports editor as he peered…

Well, it’s that time of the year again when we’re supposed to embark on a dry, dieting, disciplined month of bodily renewal and purification while locking ourselves in a joyless prison of abstinence and existing on nothing but steam,…

Brace yourself folks. The tsunami, the tidal wave, the avalanche or whatever occurrence of overwhelming magnitude you can think of is ready to consume us. And no, we’re not talking about Omicron here. Tiger Woods is going to be…

HAVE you ever had a read at some of the stuff cobbled together by the Global Odds Index? It’s an organisation that examines all sorts of probabilities in life, from winning the lottery or getting struck by lightning to the chances of…

Shuffling through the streets of Glasgow on the climate march the other day, some fresh-faced eco-activist eagerly asked me if I’d embraced a plant-based diet as a way of helping to save the planet. “Well, people often say my cooking…

WHAT'S the purpose of new technology in 2021? That’s right, it’s to make gadgets and gizmos you bought maybe two years ago look like something from 1976 as all manner of appliances swiftly go from cutting-edge contraptions to lumpen…

Well, are you all set for this COP 26 climate thingy? Regular readers will appreciate that I’ve always been actively aware of my environmental responsibilities. Every Tuesday, for instance, your correspondent recycles the same auld…

No? Well, you should be able to, because it’s being wafted in by great big industrial-sized excitement generating turbines. Yes, the grand old transatlantic tussle is here again and you’ve only got three more days of preview mumbo…

Well, that’s it then. After all the hype, the hysteria, the hoopla, the syrupy motivational videos and schmaltzy promotional claptrap, Team Europe got absolutely horsed. The Ryder Cup is over for another two years and we can all get on…