Sport

A second bite at the 18th cherry

A second bite at the 18th cherry

Tomorrow sees the start of the BMW PGA championship at Wentworth’s West Course, with a stellar line-up including all four of the world’s current major winners and six of the world’s top seven chasing the €750,000 top prize. Perhaps the most intriguing elements of this year’s tournament again involves the iconic 18th hole. [Read more...]

Sport, Style, The style bloggers: Jason Dike

How low can you go?

How low can you go?

Results aside, one question weighs particularly heavily on our minds whenever we see Arsene Wenger on the touchline. Why is his coat so damn big? [Read more...]

Sport, Video clips

They call him Mega Skill

Click to playThey call him Mega Skill

Danny “Mega Skill” MacAskill can do things with a trials bike that make the laws of physics weep. This week Esquire sat down with the man from the Isle of Skye and chatted about what he’s been up to — since his first YouTube video went viral (21 million hits and counting) things have been very busy indeed. We’ll have more on Danny in our March issue, and in the meantime enjoy his latest video, “The Way Back Home”, featuring yet more gravity-mocking insanity as Danny journeys from Edinburgh back to Skye. Get the full story at www.redbull.co.uk/waybackhome

Sport, Style & Grooming

Moschino’s team tactics

Moschino’s team tactics

David Beckham has an awful lot to answer for. Once, it was only Lord B himself and a few over-groomed footballers who ruled the roost of “stylish” sports stars. These days, however, even the most manly of sportsmen are getting in on the act, and rugby players are no exception. [Read more...]

Sport

Roll Up Roll Up – 2012 Olympics tickets

Roll Up Roll Up – 2012 Olympics tickets

It’s hanging in the balance. Will we cock it up? Will it be a success? Will Boris cycle in with Beckham on his back? Will the park, post-games, become a refugee camp? Will the cylopsian mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville, become even bigger laughing stocks than they already are? Whatever happens before, during or after 2012′s London Olympics, we’re going to want to witness it first hand, and tickets are already in demand. [Read more...]

Sport

El Diego turns 50

El Diego turns 50

Diego Armando Maradona, he of the magic feet, bouffant hair and most famous middle name in football, reaches his half century on Saturday. Given the little one’s zest for life, that he’s made it this far should probably be news enough. But there’s more – to honour the landmark, Puma, longtime supplier of his weapons of choice, Puma’s “King” boots, is launching a special collection of King Diego products. [Read more...]

Sport, Style

Esquire talks style with the England rugby team

Click to playEsquire talks style with the England rugby team

Believe it or not, it’s quite an emasculating experience spending a day with the entire England rugby team. Not only do the lot of them look as if they’ve been fist-fed growth hormones they’re so unfeasibly huge, they’re also some of the politest chaps we’ve ever met. A combination which – in the mind of this weedy, yawning, twig-limbed journo at least – induced the desire to make them our friends, our best friends, best friends like we haven’t had since those first few weeks of primary school. [Read more...]

Competitions, Sport

Win tickets for you and a friend to England’s four Investec internationals

Win tickets for you and a friend to England’s four Investec internationals

Esquire has teamed up with Investec to celebrate the specialist bank and asset manager’s tenth year of sponsoring the Investec Internationals, by offering a rugby fan the chance of a lifetime. [Read more...]