FriendshipFriends are essential to our health and happiness, and even affect how long we live. But how do you keep a relationship alive when you are living in different places and can barely make time for yourself? Trish and Mick started chatting about music on a staircase in 1970, when Trish and her flatmates (“strange, slightly hippy people,” Mick laughs) were trying to stop a neighbour’s party guests, including Mick, from getting into their flat.

US sportsThe stadium was once hailed as the finest sporting venue in the world. On Sunday, its demolition will begin and few will shed any tears for its end When the Detroit Lions played their first regular season NFL game at the Pontiac Metropolitan Stadium on 6 October 1975, millions of Americans tuned in to witness Michigan’s new 80,000 state-of-the-art facility in all its glory. Alongside Alex Karras and Frank Gifford in the ABC commentators’ booth, legendary broadcaster Howard Cosell described the venue as “the most magnificent football structure of its kind … the finest edifice of its type known to mankind”.

Top 10sPhilosophy booksYou might not hear much about it if you study philosophy, but this rich intellectual tradition is centuries old and often more open to the mess of life than its male counterpart As a graduate student in philosophy years ago, I had a life-changing insight: there were women philosophers. Lots of them. So many in fact that it was laughably tragic how easy it had been for me to study the history of philosophy completely oblivious to their existence.

TV tonightTelevisionA police officer becomes obsessed with what happened to a man carried away by flood waters. Plus, what are store cards doing with our data? Here’s what to watch this evening After the Flood9pm, ITV1The climate crisis hits primetime crime drama in this action-packed new series about a northern English town devastated after being hit by a mighty flood. After a slightly ridiculous start, it eases into a steady thriller as heavily pregnant PC Joanna Marshall (Gentleman Jack star Sophie Rundle) becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to a man who was dragged away in the deluge.

THIS SPORTING LIFEwhen and how did the first Mexican wave start? Gerard O'brien, Dunedin New Zealand Didn't it start during the Mexican world cup in 1986, hence the name? Duncan, London UK I think Duncan might be right. As to why it started, I think someone spilt hot enchilladas on their lap during a boring match, and the rest is history. Nick Simmons, Cardiff UK The first answer is correct, hence the name.