By the author of Sporting Lives, this is a further collection of the author's articles on sport taken from The Daily Telegraph. It contains pieces on football, golf, cricket, rugby, tennis, rowing and motor racing. It describes sporting championships and the travelling freak show that surrounds the teenage superstars - Jennifer Capriati or newcomer Martina Hingis - and deprives them of a childhood. It profiles many of the greatest sporting figures of our times, from Fred Perry, Jackie Stewart, George Best and Denis Compton to Nick Faldo, Mike Atherton, Steve Redgrave and Rory Underwood.