Maradona v Castro: football star scores winner in new career
The Argentine football legend Diego Maradona looks set to crown his new career as a television interviewer by landing a rare, exclusive interview with a man not used to b...
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Injured Holmes close to calling time on career
Kelly Holmes was last night undergoing a series of tests with her Irish physical therapist Gerard Hartmann in Limerick in a desperate attempt to save her career so that s...
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Xavier faces end of career after drugs positive
Abel Xavier, Middlesbrough's Portuguese defender, has failed a drugs test and been suspended from all football with immediate effect by Fifa, football's world governing b...
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Greening ready to call time on career due to toe injury
The Wasps and England hooker Phil Greening is set to announce his retirement from the game this week because of a recurring toe injury. The 30-year old, who has won 24 ca...
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Five-year-olds to be given careers advice
Primary school children should receive careers advice and be encouraged to question their dreams of becoming pop stars and fairy princesses, according to an influential c...
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Jones has last chance to save glorious career
Roy Jones Jr, regarded as perhaps the finest boxer in the world for the better part of a decade, fights for his future in Tampa, Florida, tonight. Nominally, the Internat...
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Cherie rules out political career
The prime minister's wife, Cherie Blair, today put an end to long-standing rumours that she might one day fancy a career in politics herself with a firm declaration she w...
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Mark Ward: 'When my career ended, I wound up with nothing. I'd never been in trouble before, now I'm serving eight years
My football career lasted two decades, during which I achieved many of my ambitions. I played for Everton, my hometown club, and scored in Merseyside derbies. I played in...
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Shoulder problems force Pratt to call time on career
Karl Pratt, the Bradford Bulls and former Great Britain utility player, has had to retire at the age of 25 because of persistent shoulder injuries. Pratt, who won two Lio...
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Eighteen-month drug ban for Xavier may end Boro player's career
The Middlesbrough defender Abel Xavier was banned from all football for 18 months after a positive drugs test. Xavier was found to have the anabolic steroid dianabol in h...
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Career chameleons
Last week I met an ex-client, Richard, for lunch. Richard works for a prestigious global consultancy firm. He has been highly successful and is well thought of by his fir...
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Previous careers of new teachers revealed in survey
One in five newly qualified teachers gave up a senior managerial role to train for a career in the classroom, according to a survey published today.
Of these career swit...
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Hartson ends Wales career
Wales striker John Hartson has announced his immediate retirement from international football in order to concentrate on playing for Celtic.
The 30-year-old has amassed ...
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Henman career on the line as injury ruins hopes in Zagreb
The prospect of premature retirement loomed ever larger for Tim Henman after his degenerative back problem ruined his chances of a first ATP Tour final since the Indian W...
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Benítez hints at extending Fowler's Anfield career
Robbie Fowler may not yet have proved the answer to Liverpool's scoring problems but he has done enough in his first month back at Anfield to impress Rafael Beníte...
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Vaughan says injuries could threaten his England career
Michael Vaughan admitted for the first time last night that the succession of injuries he has suffered may place his international future in jeopardy. England's captain w...
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Veteran Udal aims to spin out his career into summer
Shaun Udal hopes that the Indian summer to his career continues into the English season and playing in the series against Sri Lanka is high on his agenda.
The 37-year-ol...
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Enron whistleblower's media career under scrutiny
Sherron Watkins, the woman who blew the whistle on Enron, battled through a fierce cross examination yesterday as lawyers defending its former bosses against fraud charge...
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Button optimistic of ending his drought in career-defining season
Striding through the paddock at the Sakhir circuit yesterday Jenson Button radiated the controlled confidence of a formula one driver who believes that this season he he ...
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Shearer ends his 'great career' as scan confirms worst fears
The knee ligament injury that forced Alan Shearer out of Monday's Tyne-Wear derby has ended the Newcastle United striker's career three games shy of the end of the season...
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Muchall hits career best as Durham enjoy first day back
There are different priorities among the folk of Kent and Durham this season. For Durham, in their first season in the top division since they were relegated from the ina...
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Hip injury leads Keane to call time on glittering career
Roy Keane brought down the curtain yesterday on one of Britain and Ireland's most successful and talked-about careers of the past 15 years by announcing that a long-stand...
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Sleepless in Surrey but Warne still records one-day career best
Just when it seemed Shane Warne had rewritten just about every record in the book, yesterday's single-handed demolition of Surrey brought him a new first: the only six-wi...
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Career break
The story so far ... Kate Watkins lives with her four children - Alice, 11, Ella, nine, Lucy, seven, and James, three - in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. She works as a produ...
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My accidental council career
In view of all the trouble and effort that most candidates put into securing election to a local authority - including, apparently, even resorting to fraud on occasion - ...
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John Prescott's chequered career
Jul 4 2006Prescott under investigation by the parliamentary standards commissioner after not declaring a stay at the ranch of US billionaire Philip Anschutz, who bought t...
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Striker revels in biggest game of career
Wayne Rooney cannot think of a bigger occasion in his career than the one he is involved in today. Two years after being carried off against Portugal in the Euro 2004 qua...
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Poll's entire career on the line after Stuttgart debacle
Graham Poll's World Cup nightmare may signal the end of his refereeing career as well as his part in the tournament. His Premiership status is unlikely to be jeopardised ...
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EADS chief fights to save career at crisis meeting
Noel Forgeard, co-chief executive of EADS, last night fought to save his career at a top-level meeting with fellow executives to discuss his role in the crisis at plane-m...
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Can you have a career and be a woman?
'I cannot stand the term "career woman". All I did was to get good marks, go to college and get a job. How does that disqualify me from also being a wife and mother?'
Th...
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