Middlesex take county cricket title in blazing fashion
With an hour of season to go, three of the nine teams were all in with a chance of winning
The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver review — from A to Z and back again
A fascinatingly detailed history one of the world’s great scholarly projects
Rio Olympics 2016: BBC wins medal for hype and hyperbole
As UK athletes win, commentators have forsworn understatement
Golden years
In Rio, records will fall and reputations will be made. But are the Olympics losing their ability to inspire?
Willett’s star rises as Spieth learns to lose
Golfers need no reminding of their fallibility, especially on the back nine at Augusta
Revising Ireland’s Easter Rising
How has modern Ireland changed the way it views the events that took place in Dublin 100 years ago?
St Moritz on thin ice
Climate change is stalking the resort where winter tourism began after warm weather put a stop to the White Turf horse race
Last boat to St Helena
One of the most remote islands on earth is getting an airport — and that could change everything
Women of 2015: the Queen
In the year her reign became the lengthiest in British history, Queen Elizabeth still did the business
Slow train coming
While much of the developed world reaps the benefits of modern rail travel, Britain and the US are still waiting for the second age of the train. What went wrong?
A cry to the sky for the future of test cricket
Match follows a film lamenting the decline of Tests and shades into exposé of cricket’s ruling body
New Zealand assert their global rugby supremacy
Back-to-back World Cup victory fulfils All Blacks’ historic role
Broadcaster winds down after keeping baseball’s clock ticking
Vin Scully knows how to make the song sound right, offering context and mood and a sense of wonder
How the Overground transformed travel in London
The Overground has transformed travel. But it deprives us of a chance to moan, says Matthew Engel
‘The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island’, by Bill Bryson
Matthew Engel succumbs to the charm of the writer’s latest travelogue
England find themselves in the Group of Death
Wales’s win at Twickenham in the Rugby World Cup could signal an early demise for the host nation
Incoming MCC chief Gerald Corbett vows to end Lord’s land dispute
Promise of ‘open and trusting’ relationship after battle that ‘split the club’
The only way is down for a prime minister at his peak
Tale about a pig looks bound to fly — from pubs to foreign capitals
Reporters win long term over club staff in football’s ban league
Newcastle United are said to have banished more journalists than any other club
A beginner’s guide to rugby’s funny-shaped balls
Union, league or gridiron . . . the FT’s sports columnist has tried all the codes but still has a blind spot for the oval ball
Queen’s six-decade reign has never faced an existential threat
Elizabeth II has always outpolled any politician
Women keep smashing new glass ceilings
New ground is broken every week but is everything rosy in the garden of female sport?
A bus to the ‘ghost village’ of Imber
For just one day each year, double-decker buses run to an obscure English village whose residents were evicted in 1943, never to return. Matthew Engel hops aboard
Smart moves for parents of sporting kids
Football is too competitive, tennis too neurotic and swimming, too boring. Chess is the way forward.
England beat Australia to reclaim Ashes at Trent Bridge
Australian captain, Michael Clarke offers himself as the sacrificial victim and announces retirement
