Coming Sunday -

This Sunday The Observer Sport Monthly Magazine will be featuring The Appliance of Science - How Football went back to the Classroom by David Runciman. Should be interesting...

Ronaldo's Way

Gemma Dating Footy Star?

Could Ex-Hollyoaker Gemma Atkinson be the next Wag on the block?

According to The Sun she is.

The paper reports that she's getting up close and personal with Cristiano Ronaldo. Cristiano Ronaldo.

Gem, who's currently competing in ITV's Soapstar Superstar, has boasted to pals about her romps with the Man United winger, according to the paper.

It also reveals how the two have been meeting up at his Cheshire mansion.

Apparently it all started when he spotted Gemma at a party, asked for her number then called for a date.

Swift work Ron.

And now Gemma's a smitten kitten. The paper says she told a friend: "He's gorgeous in every way and things are going really well."

However, her spokesman declined to comment on the relationship.

Women's Health

Feeling the error of your Christmas and New Year indulgent ways? Go and check out this months Women's Health (Jan/Feb). It has all the info you need to know to make this year your healthiest ever. Complete with fitness tests, tips and exercises, it even provides a handy poster so that you never need forget what you need to do to create your fittest year yet. You can even use the program online. It really does start now...

Happiness - and how to achieve it

The Ecologist(FEB) features Happiness - and how to achieve it, by Bill McKibben.

Climate change isn't juast a threat. It's an opportunity for us to live happier, more fulfilling lives. The fossil fuel age changed every detail of western human life - where we lived, how we travelled (and how much), what we ate, how our economies worked. But there were two changes in particular that it wrought - huge changes. Changes so huge they redefine the meaning of huge. One is physical - the sudden onset of a rapid warming that will change the very geography of the planet in almost unbelievable fashion over the next century. We live on a different earth already, and it is going to get worse fast. Way worse. The other psychological - cheap fossil fuel tipped the balance in the modern mind between self as individual and self as member of community. It made us different people. Worse people. And so here's the good news - fighting either problem means fighting them both. We've been backed into a corner, and the only way our is the right way...

The men who changed Football

FourFourTwo(FEB) Magazine features Richard Keys and Andy Gray and the men who they think changed football. They are:

*Abramovich *Cantona *Bosman *Beckham *Wenger Who do you think most changed British Football?

Paula Radcliffe's advice to teenage athletes

Athletics Weekly (Jan) features World marathon record-holder Paula Radcliffe, offering young distance runners guidance as they begin the early stages of their athletics careers. Paula Radcliffe was no teenage phenomenon but her methods as a young runner laid the groundwork for exceptional performances later.

Monster Children

Monster Children is the coolest mag we have seen - from Australia for boarders. Packed with funky content it is a true masterpiece.

Detroit Motor Show

The Detroit Motor Show took place last week and showcased some of the fastest, coolest, head turning, eye popping cars to roam our world's roads. The line up included a mix of production and concept cars.
To have a look at the show gallery click here.

Walking Weekends

Country Walking (Jan) list 52 Walking Weekends. They combine great walks with the optimum time of year to do them, so you'll see the views and the local countryside at its stunning finest. Here are three great walks for February:

1. Scale the highest point.. in Lincolnshire! Explore "Tennyson Country" for the weekend.

2. A wild and sexy walk for Valentine's Day at Men-an-Tol, in south-west Cornwall, an ancient fertility site.

3. Look out for fabulous displays of snowdrops - the first signs that winter is losing its grip on the countryside. Try Hopton Hall in the Peak District or Hodsock Priory near Blyth in Nottinghamshire.

Save the World

February's Wanderlust Magazine features: How your travels can help preserve our planet! If you want to feel like a hero and do your bit for saving the world it is a really good read. Alex Robinson takes up the challenge of traveling to Cost Rica's bountiful rainforests - the question is can he travel there with a clean conscience? The rainforests depend on visitors for survival - but they are also a carbon-heavy 8,700km flight from the UK.

Time Out London

Time Out London has a special issue on Health & Fitness this week (Jan 17-24). "From couch potato to gym bunny, the get-in-shape guide for everyone".

Broadcast magazine - The Match

Sky One have decided to scrap �..The Match�.. the celeb/reality programme following celebs as they train and then face a team of ex pro�..s �.. apparently they think people are tiring of the programme idea �.. what do you think?

911

Total 911- You would have thought the publisher�..s of a magazine for Porsche drivers could have come up with a less sensitive title for a magazine.

Top Gear

Top Gear Magazine(Feb 07) has predictably the world exclusive interview and pictures of presenter Richard Hammond�..s major crash from late last year. Who said speed kills?

Procycling's Greatest Climbs

ProCycling Magazine (Jan 07) lists the 50 Greatest Climbs and how they became the stuff of legend. Here are the top three:

No.1 - Mont Ventoux (France) - The Ventoux is a great mountain stuck in the middle of nowhere and bleached white by the sun. It is another world up there among the bare rocks and the glaring sun. Located to the east of Bedoin on the D974. The climb runs through a forest before hitting the exposed summit. Length of climb: 23km.

No.2 - Monte Zoncolan (Italy) - 100km north of Udine in north-east Italy. Climb from Ovaro to the west of the mountain. Length of climb: 10.5km.

No.3 - Alpe d'Huez (France) - The climb steeples above Bourg d'Oisans on th D211. Length of climb: 13.9km.

The 50 Best Winter Walks

The Independent's essential guide to going out and staying in lists The 50 Best Winter Walks. Here are the top 3:

1.) Freshwater Way, Isle of Wight - One of eight way-marked inland trails on the island, this gentle route takes you from the mouth of the Yar estuary through woodland, farmland and to the water's edge at the Causeway. Here, you can either continue along the flat river valley or take the path that rises up to Afton Down; finishing above the cliff at Compton bay. more info

2.) Ashridge, Hertforshire - The National Trust's Ashridge estate is set on the Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire border and straddles the Chilterns. The popular way-marked woodland trail gives you a real sense of the scale of the 5,000 acre estate. It's advisable to wear strong footwear as the woodland tracks here tend to be muddy all year round. more info

3.) Thixendale Round, Yorkshire - This is an intriguing journey through a landscape of dry chalk grassland valleys, green meadowlands and medieval villages. Leaving the remote village of Thixendale, which is at the hub of 16 dales in Yorkshire Wolds, this walk passes through Painsthorpe Dale, which only became accessible to the public for the first time earlier in 2006. more info

Going to New York?..

...and want to stay fit? This Weeks Time Out New York features the annual Fitness Special including how to Detox your body of almost everything and whip yourself into shape. It is the Annual Fitness Special and includes all the city's new classes, services and gym deals at the best fitness centers.

The Brits

Something to put in your diary - The Brits in Switzerland 10th - 17th March - The Ultimate Snowboard & Music Festival incorporating the British Snowboard Championship 07.

Football'..s Fittest fan

Is it you? Upload you photos and let us know. In the pursuit of complete fairness you can be male or female. Which is slightly different to Nuts approach - where guess what, only females can enter.

Melanie Slade!

This months Arena magazine features Theo Walcott's girlfriend Melanie Slade. Well worth checking out!

Britain's Biggest Sporting Underachievers

Zoo magazine(5-11 Jan 07) lists their top 5 sporting let downs. What do you think? In no particular order they are Audley Harrison Boxing , Tim Henman Tennis , Mark Lewis-Francis (Athletics) , Justin Rose Golf and Michael Ricketts Football

Have you eaten all your mates?

Zoo Magazine (5-11 Jan 07) features their pick of the best new terrace chants. Our favourites include - You all live in a convict colony, to the tune of Yellow Submarine by the Barmy Army and Tevez for Star Trek - by Aston Villa fans to the Argentinean Hammer.

Britain's Top 100 running races

Runners World (Feb 07) have put together their chart of the top 100 races of 2006. Number one for the 7th year running is....of course, The London Marathon, number two the Great South runand three is Swansea Bay 10k. The Runner's World readers also voted for their favourite races and have a slightly different list. Number one is The Brass Monkey half marathon in York, two is The Easy Runner Sodbury slog near Bristol and three is the Northumberland coastal run in Alwick.

Runner's World

The most heartbreaking moments

Observer Sport Monthly (Jan 07) with the top 20 times when �..sport brings tears to your eyes�... Number one the story of Jim Peters final 300 yards of the Empire Games marathon in Vancouver in 1954. He entered the stadium 17 minutes ahead of their second placed man but exhaustion meant he spent 11 minutes wobbling and crawling around the track before finally being carried off in stretcher �.. still short of the finish (he never ran away). This is an amazing story and if you have Run a marathon just the thought of it is enough top strike fear into you and to make sure you are properly prepared for the next one.

Observer Sport Monthly

20 Ways to liven up the ashes

Nuts magazine (6th Jan) have come up with 20 ways to try and make England look �.. a bit less rubbish�... And number One: Simon Cowell gets to criticise the bowlers after each over. Any better ideas?

Nuts Magazine

Win Rocky Balboa Premiere Tickets

Plus loads of gear �.. courtesy of Nuts Magazine. Rocky is back for the 5th instalment. At cinemas from January 19th. It�..s meant to be very good!

What is Rocky�..s full name? a. Rocky Balboa B. Rocky Feather C. Rocky Boa Constrictor. Go to Nuts.co.uk/win and enter the right answer: A?

Nuts Magazine

Lip Reading of the week

From Nuts magazine - Emmanuel Eboue Vs Portsmouth to the ref: �..I swear to God I was not touching him! You must believe me!�.�

Nuts Magazine

Did you know?

What�..s the connection between Cristiano Ronaldo and Ronald Reagan? Ronaldo was named after the former TV cowboy and US president!

The Top 10 FA Cup Giant Killers

Shoot magazine reckon it is Sutton United for their 2v1 win over Coventry in 1989. What do you think? What�..s the worst giant killing act your team have suffered?

Shoot magazine