The NFL are coming back, the Rugby League Challenge Cup final is a permanent fixture and last week's announcement of a December 3rd clash at Wembley Stadium between Australia and the Barbarians added Rugby Union to the portfolio of sports staged there since it was officially opened only a year ago. As the travails over its construction and funding recede ever deeper into the public memory the Stadium is earning a reputation as an......

After last year's popular pre-season game between the Boston Celtics and the Minnesota Timberwolves at the O2 arena, the NBA are coming back and this time the Heat are on. They'll be practicing with some Nets as the teams from Miami and New Jersey face each other on October 12th in what will effectively be a second leg to their Paris friendly three days earlier. James Bidwell, chief executive of Visit London, commented: The......

News is breaking across the pond that this year's NFL fixture in the UK will be back at Wembley Stadium after all, with the New Orleans Saints hosting this season's losing Superbowl "semi-finalists" the San Diego Chargers on October 26th. San Diego president Dean Spanos, a member of the NFL's International Committee, reportedly in negotiations over the game almost since the first Wembley match ended just over two months ago, commented: We want to......

Last October's clash between the Miami Dolphins and Superbowl contenders the New York Giants at Wembley was obviously considered a success as the NFL's commissioner, Roger Goodell, has announced that another regular season encounter will take place on our shores in the autumn... but not necessarily at Wembley, or even in London. Goodell said: The game in London was undoubtedly one of the highlights of the entire 2007 season. The fan interest was tremendous.......

Don't get us wrong. As you can probably tell from last week there's a good deal of enthusiasm for the NFL on here. This Londonista in particular has to confess to a near addiction. However, while last night's Miami Dolphins hosting of the eventually victorious New York Giants at Wembley was the ideal meet-up for the sport's many fans in this country, and the NFL can finally put a big tick in the box......

Tonight marks the climax of nine months' eager anticipation since we broke the news to you that the NFL was coming to town. Two days ago we secured a ticket via the final sale we mentioned last Tuesday and we can't wait for the action to begin at 5pm. If you're catching the game on TV (Sky Sports live, or BBC2 highlights at 10:50pm), you're in plenty of company. The game is being carried......

As Sunday evening's "home" fixture at Wembley for the Miami Dolphins against the New York Giants edges ever closer we interview Brian Tennent, Londoner and chairman of DolFan UK, the only UK-based Miami Dolphins fan organisation officially recognised by the club itself. What first attracted you to the NFL in general and supporting the Dolphins in particular? When it was first regularly broadcast on Channel 4, it looked more exciting and glamorous than UK......

Hot on the heels of basketball and ice hockey, the third of America's big four sports has begun its landing on our shores. The advance guard for Sunday's NFL encounter between the Miami Dolphins and the New York Giants consists of just one man. Albeit a very big one. Pictured above is the specially commissioned twenty-six foot high animatronic statue of Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor which is touring London and the South East......

All Londonist Sport's Christmases have come at once. It is being reported that today the NFL, the world's premier professional league of football American-style, is about to announce that a game will be played between the Miami Dolphins and the New York Giants at the soon-to-be-completed Wembley Stadium some time in the autumn. "Oh yes," we hear you murmur. "We remember that sort of thing from the late eighties and early nineties." Well, yes......

You might remember a while ago we reported on the fact that the NFL was talking about holding a game in London, probably at Wembley Stadium. Well today we read that the NFL have actually "provisionally booked Wembley Stadium for next October, five months after it is officially due to open." The important word there, of course, is 'provisionally'. If all goes well this could be pretty cool, as "The tie is likely to......