McIlroy grew to become a Nike-clad paragon of virtue, backing up his very frequent public endorsements of tradition and history with consistently brilliant golf

In the pantheon of great sports movies, He Got Game is largely forgotten. Raging Bull had Scorsese, De Niro and Pesci mid-pomp. Any Given Sunday had Oliver Stone, an infinite budget and that speech from Pacino

To the uninitiated, Humphrey is the face of BT Sports football coverage who announced last week he’s stepping down after 10 years in the role.

City and Guardiola have done it well, too well, so well that their dominance and the conditions that led to it may end up breaking football as we know it

Does he really need the $25 million a year Saudi Arabia reputedly pays him?

JUST put one foot in front of the other, that’s what they say, but, despite that straightforward maxim, running a marathon is anything but simple.

The purpose of this letter is to impress upon you the importance of the next few days for your club - not just as a team - but as an idea

Today, Rhasidat Adeleke, 20, and Evan Ferguson, 18, stand on the precipice of a type of greatness none of us could ever really imagine for ourselves, and certainly not for our kids

Sometimes the great ones make it all too easy for us to pick them apart.

This is a piece about Sunday's Allianz Football League final between Galway and Mayo, an article about something that has already happened, written before it ever happened