
Theroux has spoken of his excitement at digging into the 'story of the heyday of snooker', which he claims is 'filled with drama and angst and enormous talent'.
Footage of the incident shows the 27-year-old's Mahindra car collide with Mitch Evans' Jaguar before flipping upside down on track in Diriyah. He was rushed to hospital straight away.
SPORTS AGENDA - MIKE KEEGAN: Particularly popular requests for time off fell on both June 21 and 22, which happen to be the first two days after lockdown measures are set to be removed.
The win somewhat makes up for Higgins' shock defeat to Yan Bingtao in January's Masters, with the title making the Scot the oldest winner of a ranking tournament since the late Doug Mountjoy.
HOT OR NOT: Beyond the militant wing of Novak Djokovic's fanbase, most have rolled their eyes at his actions in recent years. But what an incredible player and what a resilient mind
Even during those gloomy briefings, when revolving ministers paint an ever more revolting picture, glints of light can appear. Even from such prolonged misery can vital lessons be gleaned.
One of the pandemic's many tragedies has been its awful impact on the disabled community. Here, Paralympics legend Tanni Grey-Thompson explains why they must not be left behind .
ADAM PEATY: I am very fortunate to be swimming at the moment. I found the time I had to take out of the pool in the first lockdown incredibly challenging.
Lily Rowntree has outlined what hockey means to herself and her young family, any why having a sport to play is crucial as the UK prepares itself, slowly, to leave the grip of the coronavirus pan...
MARC PADGETT - SPORTS EDITOR: Finally, we got the news we'd all been waiting for as the Government announced plans for a staggered return to normality, including sport.
Liverpool have once again been nominated for the Team of the Year gong at this year's Laureus World Sports Awards after they finally won the first ever Premier League title last season.
Christian Malcolm has 'no doubts' that heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be in shape for Olympic gold, despite the concerning achilles injury that has kept her out of training.
The world number 81, who started the tournament as a 750-1 outsider, held his nerve to clinch a 9-8 win and become the lowest ranked winner of a ranking title in over a quarter of a century.
SPORTS AGENDA - MIKE KEEGAN: Crawley, who could return for this week's day-nighter, looked across to the home area and noticed a carpet had been rolled down in the hosts' section.
Team Ineos UK were comfortably beaten in the end as Luna Rossa face Team New Zealand next month for the biggest prize in sailing. Sir Ben has vowed to try and win it in 2025 though.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: There hasn't been a massive amount to get excited about in the Wayne Pivac era of Welsh rugby. But there is Rees-Zammit, and he really is something.
Giles destroyed Sebastian Coe's long-standing British indoor 800m record in Poland on Wednesday night with an astonishing run that will again raise questions about spike technology in athletics.
Sir Ben Ainslie faces the potential agony of seeing his America's Cup bid end without being able to race again, after a Covid row thrust the event into turmoil. His team are down 4-0 at the momen...
SPORTS AGENDA - MIKE KEEGAN: As Sportsmail first reported last year, the lack of crowd noise in behind-closed-doors matches led clubs to warn their players and managers over language.
The British challengers trail Italians Luna Rossa in the first-to-seven series that will determine who takes on holders Team New Zealand in the world's oldest international competition next month...
A name synonymous with snooker's golden era and famed for his ruffled dress shirts, Mountjoy won the UK Championship twice, in 1978 and 1988, and the Masters in 1977.
The 30-year-old caught an edge in the men's downhill event in Cortina, which sent him tumbling down the hill at high speed. After doing a 360 in mid air he somehow landed back up on his skis.
HOT OR NOT: It's Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's Riath Al-Samarrai reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.
The British Athletes Commission (BAC) began group therapy sessions last year for abuse victims. So far 34 gymnasts have completed the course.
The American will leave the role at the Commonwealth Games Federation after six years on March 5, just 16 months before the Games launch in Birmingham.
SPORTS AGENDA - MIKE KEEGAN: The BBC are adamant that their Cricket Social audio feed is not a live commentary, but rather discussion and analysis by the likes of Michael Vaughan.
Katie Ormerod says her 'main focus for the season' is to qualify for the 2022 Beijing Olympics after missing the opportunity to compete at Pyeongchang due to an injury that almost ended her care...
HOT OR NOT: It's Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's Riath Al-Samarrai reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.
Sir Mo Farah's claim that all athletes have been promised Covid-19 jabs before Tokyo has been knocked down by the BOA, who insist no competitors will jump the queue for vaccinations.
Wondering how best to keep fit in these difficult times? It really isn't as tough as you may think. Try these seven core exercises and stick to them - they can be done just about anywhere!
Having clocked up a total of 2,038.8km in the past 10 months, Farazmand is now pushing to reach 2814km by completing at least 5km each morning before 9am.
Robinson now helps deliver sport in schools with his JR Sports Stars programme and has launched an app, PE Pro, which assists teachers with lesson plans.
The 20,000 square-foot facility boasts state-of-the-art equipment and is the home for 1,200 gymnasts, including likely Team GB Tokyo 2020 squad members Nile Wilson and Giarnni Regini-Moran.
The proportion of adults in England engaged in 150 minutes of physical activity each week has fallen from 63 per cent before the Covid-19 pandemic to just 24 per cent now - a drop of nine million...
Back in March, Sport England launched the Community Emergency Fund to stem the tide of devastation sweeping through clubs nationwide.
Having failed to gain automatic selection, Alistair Brownlee now faces a race against time to earn one of Team GB's remaining one or two slots for next summer's rearranged Olympics.
JOHN WOOD: Right now I'm worried, both as a lover of the sport and as chairman and manager of the City of Sheffield club, because there is a big risk to athletics with this virus and another lock...
The UK athletics governing body are looking into an email purporting to be from a group of their own coaches that posed 'serious questions' about CEO Joanna Coates.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY JONATHAN McEVOY: Sir Ben Ainslie reached across the time zones on Sunday night to share how one of the most tantalising endeavours in British sporting history is going.
Ben Ainslie moved a race nearer a shot at America's Cup glory yesterday, after defying a major technical issue to secure his place in next month's final qualifier.
EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: Becky and Ellie Downie spoke to Sportsmail about what they describe as the 'toughest year of their lives' and on what they hope is a better 2021.
Global conglomerate Man Capital has acquired a €100m majority stake in Tom Vernon's Right To Dream group, who run a youth academy in Ghana and own Danish top-flight side FC Nordsjaelland.
EXCLUSIVE BY JONATHAN MCEVOY AND DAVID COVERDALE: British Olympic bosses will not ask the Government to fast-track athletes for Covid-19 vaccinations.
EXCLUSIVE: Winning middle distance races at the Olympics requires discipline, which gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes had little of when she was growing up.
The Olympics, scheduled to take place this summer having been postponed last year due to the pandemic, will be 'simpler and more restrained' due to the threat of the spread of the deadly virus.
The 20-year-old rising star from China won a thrilling contest 10-8 in Milton Keynes to pocket the £250,000 first prize - almost four times his previous biggest payday.
On the other end of the planet the great Olympian is enacting one of the most remarkable putative comebacks in the history of British sport.
Stephen Hendry has admitted he is still not ready for a drawn-out comeback after a series of false starts - but is now eyeing next month's Welsh Open.
Ainslie's British crew, who lost all their matches against the USA and Italy in the first round-robin regatta last month, went 3-0 up in the series in Waitemata Harbour after beating American Mag...
NBA ROUND-UP: LeBron James had 21 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds, and Anthony Davis added 17 points against his former team in the Los Angeles Lakers' fifth consecutive victory.
HOT OR NOT: Sportsmail's Daniel Matthews digests another hectic week in the world of sport, delivering his verdict on who and what is hot, and those coming up cold.
Wilson has never fully recovered from the bulging disc he suffered in his neck after the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which forced him to have corrective surgery and led to him battling depression .
Administrative and regulatory reform minister, Taro Kono, believes the decision on whether to host this summer's Olympic Games could go either way following Japan's rise in cases.
Britain's four-time Olympic gold medallist Matthew Pinsent this week said the rearranged Tokyo Games should be called off given the continued spread of coronavirus in Japan and around the world.
EXCLUSIVE: Dame Sarah Storey was bullied by her school peers, not taken seriously by her university friends and rejected at the age of 21 on the way to becoming Britain's greatest Paralympain.
Ball finished with 22 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists on Saturday night, helping the Charlotte Hornets beat the Atlanta Hawks 113-105 for their third straight win in the NBA.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: 'It's hugely frustrating,' says one of Britain's sporting knights, and even amid the complexities of America's Cup sailing it is painfully simple to understand why.
Luvo Manyonga is the latest prominent athlete to be charged with a 'whereabouts' anti-doping violation. The South African overcame a crystal meth addiction to win gold long jump gold in 2017.
Stewart, the men's sprint coach overseeing Jason Kenny's bid to become Britain's most successful Olympian, was dismissed for offences including 'inappropriate relationships with riders' in Novemb...
IOC member Dick Pound said on Wednesday that athletes should be given priority access to Covid-19 vaccines in order for the rescheduled Tokyo Games to go ahead as planned.
The 35-year-old becomes the new world No 1 after holding his nerve in a thrilling contest against two-time champion Anderson at Alexandra Palace.
Gerwyn Price won his first ever PDC World Championship title with a 7-2 victory over rival Gary Anderson in Sunday's final at Alexandra Palace. He is the first Welshman to ever win the title.
Gary Anderson and Gerwyn Price will battle it out for the PDC World Championship after the pair booked their place in Sunday's showpiece final at London's Alexandra Palace.
Chisnall will face Gary Anderson for a place in Sunday's final after hitting 14 180s against Van Gerwen. Gerwyn Price (inset) will succeed the Dutchman as World No 1 if he wins the tournament.
It's the first Hot or Not edition of 2021 as Sportsmail's Daniel Matthews reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.
Tom Brady (43) recently led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to their first NFL play-offs since 2007; Rafael Nadal (34) and Roger Federer (39) have 20 Grand Slam titles each.
The host city reported a record rise of Covid-19 infections this week and is on the brink of declaring a state of emergency. However, Suga is confident that the Games will go ahead.
Japan's capital reported a daily record of 1,337 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday and the nationwide figure was 4,515. As a result, there are growing fears over the Olympic Games.
Sport, and its unrivalled sense of drama and escapism, has perhaps never been needed more than in 2020 with the world grinding to a halt amid the coronavirus pandemic.
James Wade recorded the first nine-darter in five years at the PDC World Championship but the feat failed to inspire him as he joined the growing list of top seeds to suffer an early exit.
Anderson, world champion in 2015 and 2016, missed an astonishing 33 shots at doubles and admitted to being frustrated by Suljovic's inconsistent pace of play at Alexandra Palace.
Wright was made to pay for a desperate series of missed doubles in the first three sets as Clemens became the first player from his country to book his place in the last 16 at Alexandra Palace.
Life begins at 40 is the old idiom, but that is not the case for the majority of sport stars who for many at that age meet the final barrier that can end a professional career.
MARTIN SAMUEL: Look, 2020 has been bad, we all know that. Nobody wants to review this year, nobody wants a reminder. This is not a quiz to remember the highlights, triumphs and achievements.
It's Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's Daniel Matthews reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.
There's something so surreal when we see our favourite athletes try their hand at a different sport. But while some have been successful, others shouldn't have given up the day job.
There have been numerous examples of good deeds and wonderful sportsmanship shown throughout history in every kind of arena. Here, Sportsmail takes a look at some of the best...
Andre Verissimo took his hand off the throttle and stood up to savour what he mistakenly thought would be a memorable win as he rounded the final bend, but two rivals were close behind him.
RIATH AL SAMARRAI: As the arguments for Lewis Hamilton strengthen, it seems timely to call upon tales of another guy with a claim to being Britain's greatest ever sportsman - Max Woosnam.
It's the most wonderful time of the year for sports fans. Yes, the football action has been thick and fast this season but the coverage ramps up a notch this Christmas.
The Russian UFC star has praised Cristiano Ronaldo for his longevity at the elite level of football in a social media tribute. The Juventus footballer won the Golden Foot award over the weekend.
The game has been confirmed by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden as one of the elite sports that can continue to stage tournaments without a crowd, but decisions need to be made imminently.
This truly unique sporting year of lockdowns, empty stadiums and new rules and restrictions has thrown up some thrilling, shocking and hilarious moments, littered with individual brilliance and e...
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY LEWIS STEELE: Not a lot can faze Ross Edgley but if there is one thing he despises, it is the word 'impossible'.
It's Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's DANIEL MATTHEWS reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.
Such a dramatic drop in participation could never have been envisaged so soon after Tracey Neville's England sensationally secured Commonwealth Games gold on the Gold Coast.
LORD COE: A good sports policy is a good health, education, law and order, social cohesion and economic policy. And yet, all too often our politicians fail to recognise this connection.
EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: UK Sport have been promised an uplift in Government funding in a major boost to Team GB ahead of the next two Olympics.
Grigory Rodchenkov remains in hiding in the United States after revealing the shocking secrets behind what the World Anti-Doping Agency described as the biggest sporting scandal in history.
Following on from Puig's leak, Sportsmail looks at other occasions when sports stars revealed important information from inside the changing rooms - and the impact it had on their teams...
Fans are allowed into the Alexandra Palace for Tuesday's first day of the sport's flagship tournament before London is moved into Tier 3 by the Government on Wednesday.
INTERVIEW BY DAVID COVERDALE: That trademark mischievous grin breaks out across Ronnie O'Sullivan's face as he is reminded of one of his most colourful comments of the year.
The Dutchman almost had to pull out of the PDC World Cup of Darts in November and there were fears he could miss the World Championship at the Ally Pally, which starts this week.
It's Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's Ian Herbert reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.
British Olympic freestyle skier Rowan Cheshire announced her retirement in February because she feared a succession of concussions was damaging her long-term health.
The 2021 World Indoor Championships in Nanjing will take place in 2023, after the 2022 Championships in Belgrade. World Athletics announced the decision with due to the pandemic.
The World Athletics announcement came within hours of the Kenyan athlete Kibiwott Kandie (left) breaking the world half-marathon record in the new Adidas Adizero Adios Pro.
It's Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's Riath Al-Samarrai reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.
During his early career Sebastian Vettel was advised by German legend Michael Schumacher, who suffered serious brain injuries in a skiing accident in 2013 and has not been seen publicly since.
EXCLUSIVE - DAVID COVERDALE: UK Sport have given the Government a one-week deadline to decide their funding and avert a financial crisis for Olympic and Paralympic sports.
MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Veteran yachtsman Jean Le Cam saved his friend and competitor Kevin Escoffier,after a wave in the South Atlantic Ocean had split his boat in two.
According to local sources, the Japanese government are preparing to accept foreign visitors at the Tokyo Games next summer as long as they submit a negative Covid-19 test before arriving.
The sevent-time Formula One champion is the early bookmakers' favourite for the 2020 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award with the winner announced in just over two weeks' time.
World No 66, Alexander Ursenbacher, produced a thrilling display of attacking snooker then repelled an Ronnie O'Sullivan comeback to edge a 6-5 second-round win.
It's hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's Riath Al-Samarrai reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.
UK Sport are worried about how they will fund Britain's Olympic and Paralympic sports after being left in the dark by the Government's spending review.
Farah will face arguably the toughest task in athletics when he faces Ugandan world record holder Joshua Cheptegei in Tokyo, which makes his call to appear on the reality show all the more baffli...
MIKE KEEGAN: The former technical director of British Cycling has been accused of misleading a parliamentary committee by denying any knowledge of doping in cycling.
UK Athletics have confirmed there will be a Diamond League meet next summer. UKA secured a July 13 midweek slot for the Anniversary Games in London.
Alex Thomson's £6million yacht suffered damage at the bow of his Hugo Boss boat, placing into uncertainty his attempt to win the prestigious Vendee Globe sailing race.
A week ago Adam Peaty broke Cameron van der Burgh's 11-year-old record in a time of 55.49 seconds and has lowered it again with a 55.41. It is the 13th world record of his decorated career.
After Lewis Hamilton made history by winning his seventh Formula One world title to equal Michael Schumacher's record, it has thrown up a fascinating British sporting debate.
After progressing to the semi-final of the Northern Ireland open, Ronnie O'Sullivan outlined exactly what he thought of snooker's new set-up in Milton Keynes and he did not mince his words.
Four British athletes have had intimate photographs and videos posted online in a cyber attack that has affected hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities.
Dr Freeman admitted to ordering the sachets of gel in 2011, and lying about it to both British Cycling and UK Anti-Doping, but denies a central charge of 'knowing or believing' the gel would aid ...
DEPUTY CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: In some ways, the quotidian lives of the three reporters it follows - Catalin Tolontan, Mirela Neag and Razvan Lutac - are familiar to so many of us who do this job.
There was no suggestion that successful British cyclist Froome, who has consistently denied doping during a career that has seen him claim seven Grand Tour victories, had cheated.
SPORTS AGENDA - MIKE KEEGAN: Manchester City have complained to Sky Sports after pundit Roy Keane branded Kyle Walker a 'car crash' and 'an idiot' in the 1-1 draw against Liverpool.
The 24-year-old Spaniard lost control at high speed and was thrown over the handlebars of his motorbike, somersaulting in the air and landing on the ground hard as he slid off the track.
Major League Baseball side the Miami Marlins have appointed Kim Ng as their general manager. She is believed to be the first female general manager for a pro men's team in north America.
Tokyo 2020 bosses are increasingly confident of spectators being allowed into venues when the delayed Games get underway in July 2021, but they may implement the 'no-scream' guidance.
While British athletes were forced to put their Olympic dreams on hold for 12 months, their cash-strapped sports will feel the devastating effects of coronavirus for years.
Diego Moreno - who hit a pothole when riding at the back of a pack of three in the City Park area of Buenos Aires - was attended to by locals following his fall.
His achievement adds to Hackney-born Tao Geoghegan Hart's remarkable Giro d'Italia success and put the brakes on any suggestion that British cycling's golden era is over,
World champion O'Sullivan was recorded accusing Allen of distracting him in a bizarre dispute that led to the world number eight calling him a 'bully' after the Northern Irishman won 6-3.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Strange things happen at sea and by Alex Thomson's estimation most of the stranger ones have happened to him
Allen had racked up a 5-3 lead in their best of 11 tie before O'Sullivan voiced his frustrations with the Northern Irishman, with a back and forth argument breaking
Complications caused by Covid-19 have prompted a four-month postponement of his case and that of Dr Jeffrey Brown, a Nike-paid endocrinologist who treated many of Salazar's athletes.
EXCLUSIVE BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: The new UK Athletics head coach is eyeing several Olympic medallists to serve as technical advisors to support the elite and development teams.
It's Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's Daniel Matthews reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.
EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: RUSADA's interim boss Mikhail Bukhanov accused Team Sky of 'organised doping' and questioned why the likes of Wiggins are still seen as 'heroes'.
The Team GB athlete's spot on this year's I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! series has been approved by UK's Athletics chiefs - providing it does not affect his Olympic preparations.
World 100m champion sprinter Coleman, who narrowly escaped a ban last year for missing three doping tests, was provisionally suspended by the AIU in June.
Richard Freeman attempted to exclude three doctors from Team Sky. He was also accused of wanting a member of staff off the team because he refused to sign up to his new protocols.
Bradley Wingers hailed the 25-year-old's perfect performance on Sunday at the Giro d'Italia. Wiggins has predicted a glorious future and says he should push for the Tour de France.
The 25-year-old Londoner pulled on the pink jersey for the first time on the final podium in Milan after a dramatic, and unprecedented, closing weekend of the race.
Ineos Grenadiers' Tao Geoghegan Hart can become the new superstar of British cycling by completing an incredible fairytale win at the Giro d'Italia on Sunday in Milan.
It's Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's Riath Al-Samarrai reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.
Dr David Hulse was moved enough to hand over potentially devastating documents to the General Medical Council (GMC), who brought the case against Freeman.
EXCLUSIVE: It has come around and gone again. Another anniversary, another chat about that day and those fists and why the old runner occasionally feels he has been punching himself.
It was announced on Tuesday that Naser, who beat Miller-Uibo to 400m gold at the World Championships last October, had escaped a ban for multiple 'whereabouts' breaches.
Commonwealth Games organisers on Wednesday announced that their programme for 2022 will have 136 medal events for women and 134 for men - a step further than Gold Coast 2018.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: The Nigerian was provisionally suspended in June for falling foul of 'whereabouts' rules, which penalise three missed tests or filing failures in the space of 12 months.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY JAMES SHARPE: It was an hour after our interview ended that Daniel Bramble spotted the notification on his phone that he raised 100% of GoFundMe target.
After receiving the unexpected donation, Bramble admitted: 'Realistically this feels like my last and best shot of making the Olympics and really making an impact there.'
It's Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's Riath Al-Samarrai reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week, including Marcus Rashford's heroics.
Retesting old blood or urine samples of athletes is an effective tool to catch drug cheats because technology advances means previously undetectable substances could be uncovered.
There were fears the leading lights of British athletics could swerve the Games, which fall between the World Championships in the United States and the Europeans in Germany in a five-week stretc...
EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: Sports leaders have reacted with anger after it emerged that half of adults in England are now banned from playing indoor sport.
Their 'Match Day Experience' will launch later this month and aims to provide a 'revolutionary new way to watch sport' during the coronavirus shutdown.