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Mark Lawrenson left the BBC with a full-on howl, resentful at almost everything that the BBC has done to modernise

Can anyone leave the BBC without slapping back at the corporation?
IT seems that nobody leaves the BBC these days with good grace ...

The introduction of VAR is unlikely to end the furious debate over refereeing in Scotland

COMMENT Stuart Cosgrove: VAR in SPFL madhouse will usher in a new kind of deranged argument

Campaigners say football fans are being fleeced out of too much money for a match ticket

comment Cost-of-living leaves football fans behind as match tickets become unaffordable

An independent report found 448 instances of institutional racism within Scottish Cricket

COMMENT For cricket lovers of colour, there is little surprise in this damning report

Tiger Woods says he fell in love with The Old Course in 1995

comment Any pro will tell you, The Old Course at St Andrews is 'like nowhere else'

Beauly and Kilmallie are among the areas to host a shinty side

COMMENT Hugh Dan MacLennan: Shinty must strive for skill and spectacle to flourish

Scotland manager Steve Clarke should look to Shaun Rooney

comment Country, club and community: How football serves them all

Jake Daniels is only the second current professional male footballer to be openly gay

comment Player’s bravery should lead to football’s Gay Lives Matter moment

Liverpool fans booed God Save the Queen at Wembley

comment UK national anthem represents the union falling apart before our eyes

Eilidh Barbour said she had 'never felt so unwelcome in the industry' as at the recent Scottish Football Writers’ dinner

comment Stuart Cosgrove: Is Scottish football the last bastion of misogyny in journalism?

Eilidh Barbour (left) walked out of the Scottish Football Writers’ Awards

COMMENT Kevin McKenna: Sports journalism is going to change – and women will play massive part

Scotland women's rugby team

COMMENT Maureen McGonigle: A refreshing plan to build trust and pull down barriers

Portrait of Maureen McGonigle, founder of Scottish Women in Sport. Photograph by Colin Mearns.

Comment Maureen McGonigle: We must stop the brain drain out of women’s sport

Singer Eddi Reader's grandmother was the captain of the Rutherglen Ladies

comment The inspirational women's football team who would put today's players to shame

Maureen McGonigle: Here’s hoping more organisations take a tough stand on abuse

COMMENT Maureen McGonigle: Here’s hoping more organisations take a tough stand on abuse

Andrew Watson (centre) with his Scotland team-mates

COMMENT This is the remarkable story behind Scotland's first black footballer

Kamila Valieva falls during the Women's Single Skating - Free Skating on day eleven of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games

Russian iceskater Kamila Valieva was let down by everyone around her

Rhona Martin made history in Salt Lake City

COMMENT Our quirky sport could see Scots dancing to tune of the future

Kamila Valieva is being allowed to compete in the Olympics despite failing a drug test, with the Court of Arbitration for Sport citing her status as a 'protected person'

comment Shona Craven: Olympic ruling sends a harmful message about young athletes

The first Commonwealth Esports Championships is taking place this year in Birmingham

comment How new technologies can be a good thing for the future of sport

There will be rapists in Scottish football until the culture changes

The Long Read Alistair Heather: There will be rapists in Scottish football until the culture changes

Footballers David Goodwillie (left), and Mason Greenwood

comment This is the lesson football clubs must take from the David Goodwillie furore

Maureen Mcgonigle says big hopes have been pinned on Team Muirhead

COMMENT This year's Winter Olympics is a golden opportunity for Scotland's curling team

Only a small core of anti-vax, ‘freedom loving’ and ‘wellness’ cranks have held out from getting the vaccine

COMMENT Letter from Melbourne: Enduring the Novax nonsense at the Australian Open

Tennis champ Novak Djokovic tweeted out a photo of himself on the courts yesterday after his spell in a detention hotel

comment Shona Craven: Does vaccine sceptic Novak Djokovic deserve a grand slamming?

Maureen McGonigle founded Scottish Women in Sport

COMMENT 'Progress' was a real step backwards for women's team

Olympic gold medal-winner Kathleen Dawson

comment Why we recognise the fantastic efforts of Scotland's women in sport

Stuart Cosgrove: Scotland’s triumph was cathartic but we must ask why it took so long

COMMENT Stuart Cosgrove: Scotland’s triumph was cathartic but we must ask why it took so long

Pakistan duly won a good-natured game and the Scotland team will benefit greatly

Comment This one key move would spur more sporting glory for Scots

Big names among those in running for Scottish Women in Sport awards

Big names among those in running for Scottish Women in Sport awards

We’re still a way off from gender balanced leadership in sport

COMMENT We’re still a way off from gender balanced leadership in sport

What better role models for daughters than their mums?

COMMENT What better role models for daughters than their mums?

Portrait of Maureen McGonigle, founder of Scottish Women in Sport. .. Photograph by Colin Mearns.27 May 2015.For The National.

COMMENT Maureen McGonigle: Get your nominations in for our women in sport awards

Former Sky Sports presenter Charlie Webster

comment The case of runners abused by their coach shows a need for a duty of care

Kim Little has been called the world's greatest talent in women's football

comment Stuart Cosgrove: The Scot who may be the best female footballer in the world

Maureen McGonigle, founder of Scottish Women in Sport

COMMENT Maureen McGonigle: Tune into power of the podcast and the Paralympics

Maureen McGonigle, founder of Scottish Women in Sport

COMMENT Maureen McGonigle: Why is what women are ‘allowed’ to do still an issue?

Grouse moor management in Scotland takes place over an area around half the size of Wales - and brings in just £23 million to the economy

comment How the licensing of estates can end the ‘national disgrace’ of grouse moors

New Olympic sports had me glued to the screen as we gear up for Paralympics

COMMENT New Olympic sports had me glued to the screen as we gear up for Paralympics

Maureen McGonigle, founder of Scottish Women in Sport

COMMENT Why are there are so few women leaders in sport?

Simone Biles withdrew from Olympic competitions after experiencing ‘the twisties’

Comment Simone Biles shows sporting courage takes many different forms

The Olympic Flame following the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at an empty Olympic Stadium in Japan

National Extra Gerry Hassan: Why the grandiose idea of an Olympic dream has turned sour

Players on the Beach Volleyball practice court ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Comment It's time men stopped dictating what women can wear when playing sports

A competitor on the Pommel Horse during the men's artistic gymnastics at Tokyo 2020

Comment Olympic ideal will be put under strain as Tokyo's Covid games roll on

More than 80% of female runner experienced street harassment

Women must feel safe as sport opens back up

Messages of support were left at a mural of footballer Marcus Rashford after racist slogans were graffitied over it

comment Lesley Riddoch: Enabling racists is just one of UK Government’s many moral failings

We cannot escape the saturation coverage and English triumphalism. Shown: Boris Johnson outside 10 Downing Street

Comment Wee Ginger Dug: Euro 2020 has destroyed all pretence of a 'UK media'

Italy fans celebrate in Piccadilly Circus in central London after their team won the UEFA Euro 2020 final

National Extra Why are Scots uniquely expected to support their greatest footballing rival?

'Lurking behind the Euro 2020 coverage is more insidious factor, namely that shows that are not sports-led get in on the party atmosphere too'

Comment Stuart Cosgrove: Why London media’s shameless Euro 2020 failure must be its last

England’s players have much to commend them, but the price of victory will be high for Scots

Comment Ruth Wishart: England may deserve to celebrate Euro 2020, but not for 50 years

England captain Harry Kane could lead his country to glory at the Euros

Comment Kevin McKenna: Here's why we should all be supporting England to win Euro 2020

International Swimming Federation wanted to ban caps which accommodate those predominately black athletes who sport afro hairstyles

Lack of diversity and equality in sport is still apparent

'No-one expects Boris “upstairs” Johnson to understand football – but he demonstrates the required quota of Englishness'

Comment Lesley Riddoch: Will England's Euros success help Tories trounce Labour?

Some England fans may have got things backwards in their approach to Euro 2020

National Extra Why British jingoism at Euro 2020 is nothing like World War-winning generation