Sports agents have begun trying to secure lucrative book deals for Team GB's successful Olympians after their unprecedented performance at the Beijing Games.

Agents have this week been sounding out publishers for deals for the likes of double-gold swimming champion Rebecca Adlington, medal-winning cyclist Victoria Pendleton and...

Headline editorial director David Wilson is a man with a smile on his face. Having worked flat out for the past few months to ensure his three big Christmas sports memoirs—Bobby Charlton, Lawrence Dallaglio (who was phoning in chapters from the Rugby World Cup) and Jackie Stewart—were out on time, he's now taking it (slightly)...

After a weekend when English rugby's dirty World Cup laundry was aired in the media, Twickenham is to take steps to gag players after future tournaments and major tours, reports the Independent. The move was prompted by the serialisation in two Sunday newspapers of autobiographies by Lawrence Dallaglio and Mike Catt.

Martyn Thomas,...