FIFA spotlights a World Cup record. Here we recall the evening when Cristiano Ronaldo became the oldest player to score a World Cup hat-trick.

Naturally, in the weeks leading up to the World Cup, the building right across the street was taken over by a fresco of its own; this one a huge portrait of a bearded Lionel Messi that looked like ...

The New York Yankees have abandoned their half-century prohibition of beards, a policy that was archaic even from its infancy. Now I find myself strangely, unexpectedly bereft, stroking my own beard ...

Arsenal legend Thierry Henry and Barcelona icon Andres Iniesta are among the 15 greatest players to have never won the Ballon ...

Though the white-bearded God on the Sistine ceiling would ... LeBron James and Lionel Messi. None would have been allowed to scratch himself in the home dugout at Yankee Stadium.