Rob Bonnet News Today

The point at which the Luke Littler phenomenon slipped the moorings of reality was when he began drawing parallels with Tiger Woods. Barry Hearn, fond of characterising darts as the “working man’s golf”, appears convinced that the swathe the teenager has torn across this year’s world championship represents a Tiger moment for our times.

The BBC Breakfast presenter's career took him from the famous red sofa to the Strictly dancefloor.

Show more England prop Joe Marler has called for mental health support for British and Irish Lions players on this summers tour of South Africa. Marler, an extrovert in looks and character, is also a man who has faced mental demons all of his own. He highlights the potential for issues to arise during the Lions Tour of South Africa this summer - players isolated, quarantined, on top of the pressures and physical challenges on the pitch. The player told the Today Programme’s R...

Big brothers joined in building farmyard worlds out of the toybox they’d created, possibly out of fast-evaporating hopes I might join them and father as a proud son of the Norfolk soil. Younger siblings giggled or dozed through my range of silly stories or nearly-naughty rhymes. Sharing shone through most sessions, even when sharper competitive edges came into play for I Spy, Ludo, Snap, Bagatelle, Blow-football, Hunt-the-Thimble and Who Can Keep a Straight Face Longest When Uncle Willie Slur...

Before we get back to bashing the suits, let us try playing devils advocate. You can argue that breakdancing is no battier than rhythmic gymnastics – the one in which teenage girls dance around the arena twirling a ribbon behind them. Many Olympic sports look peculiar on close inspection – like familiar words rolled around the tongue for too long. The 100m dash is logical enough. But why does the steeplechase involve a 2ft-deep trough of water? And while the pole-vault presumably derives ...