‘It’s a huge advantage’: Can football skills help decide the Super Bowl?

Ignore the naysayers – I’ve been to 37 US states and I can’t wait to see all 50

Chris Leadbeater: ‘I’m in the middle of a lifelong love affair with the entire American map’. Pictured in Gunninson, Colorado One of the many joys of travel – and there are a lot of – is that there is so much room for so many opinions. It’s a very big world after all, which no … Read more

NFL conference championship game picks: Is a Ravens-49ers Super Bowl inevitable?

What lies ahead for Louis Rees-Zammit and the NFL’s rugby hopefuls

Louis Rees-Zammit (top left) and Harry Mallinder (top right) swap rugby for American football – NFL Louis Rees-Zammit’s defection to American football on the eve of the Six Nations entered the public consciousness in a way that rugby union rarely does. It left excited questions floating around on cell phones. Why did the Welsh wing, … Read more

Will the Steelers disrupt the bills?

A lost piece of the British Caribbean is coming in from the cold

The Turks and Caicos Islands archipelago is home to a beautiful chain of luxury resorts: Gary James The approach to Providenciales Airport is the kind of descent — fraught with a nagging dread that increases by the minute — that could give even more nervous fliers heart palpitations. Why? Because beyond the window, as the … Read more

Dolphins and Ravens throw down for No. 1 seed and goodbye

The Lions have one playoff victory since 1957. Those profits could increase soon enough