As with celebrities, it is the land of the free, America, to whom we must turn for our great athletes of the past year. This time last year Michael Vick was nothing but a quarterback/running back for the Arizona Falcons. Now he is, and perhaps forever will be, known for setting up dog fights. Of course the last time anyone in Britain had a dog fight was when the Nazi's tried to win the skies above Kent. Vick is one of my sports stars of 2007 because he has gone from fame to stardom so quickly...

Deep in the California desert trouble was a-brewing. The merciless pygmy, Ming-Vase the merciless (he was nicknamed after his character trait) was hatching an evil and disturbing plot. Funnily enough the plot of this story follows his evil and disturbing plot (give or take the odd rambling tangent.) However, we begin the tale sometime ago, in the summer of 1933. King Kong had claimed the Empire state building (scaling higher than the official viewing platform!) and tensions in Europe were at ...

Havana, 1961. The Bay of Pigs invasion has gone disastrously wrong for the American forces. Castro becomes more distrustful of America, America more fearful of communism and the dictator that bucked the trend in terms of dictatorial moustaches. ''He's like Stalin but with a moustache on his chin!'' cries an American journalist. Soon he is dead, his body ripped to shreds by machine gun fire. You gotta have respect. NEVER dis Fiddy when you're in his 'hood. Down by a tapas bar a young boy cries...