The proposition or prop betting market in the US is now hugely popular i.e., discrete, esoteric or “fun” bets on any aspect of a game. It’s estimated that about 60% of the total betting on the Super Bowl will be in this form.

Work at last begins this week on Casement Park, marking a significant 20-year anniversary.

Thirty years ago, one of the most unlikely upsets in football occurred not on the field of play but in the then European Court of Justice

I tried meditation. Didn't work. Set my mind a-whirring. Could you play both Parrott and Ferguson up front against Czechia? Will Watford make the play-offs? Surely there’s one more in Limerick’s hurlers?

On Wednesday and in a world’s first, Australia implemented a social media ban for under-16s. Ireland is watching closely. 

That line came to mind when, as so many migrants do, I had to tune in online to a funeral from home of a neighbour, and GAA club stalwart

If I was advising the GAA on the AFL’s scouting of talent, three things come to mind.

GOODFELLAS is one of the great gangster movies. The central character, played by Ray Liotta, is Henry Hill. Hill was in fact a real-life mobster associated with the Lucchese crime syndicate, one of the five Mafia families of New York.

Don’t be fooled by the faux scientific arguments made by organisers of the Enhanced Games/

I have spent a lifetime in universities. At their worst, academics tell students what to think and what to write; at their best, how to think and how to write. The latter, how to write, is an endangered skill.