The Joy of Six: stories of love in sport

Daniel Harris Sun, 18 January 2026 at 8:00 am UTC·17 min read Jim Redmond The older I get, the more profoundly I appreciate that, when I’m writing about sport, I’m also writing about love. This makes perfect sense given these are mankind’s two greatest inventions and the stuff we can least do without, but there’s more to it than that: sport and love are both expressions of identity, creativity and devotion, pursued because they are right but also because it’s impossible not to.Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Love takes many forms, experienced by different people in different ways and by the same people differently on different days. But one of its strongest iterations is that of a...