Riley Cooper did his growing up in Oklahoma City and Clearwater, Florida before playing at one of the American south’s college football behemoths, the University of Florida.

It wasn’t until very recently that I saw evidence of the Black and Tan drink up close.

The biggest youth GAA tournament outside of Ireland is, on the face of it, an odd place to find a business forum.

OUT ON a hurling field temporarily set up for a hot afternoon of competition in New Jersey recently, the big NYPD detective who had offered to stand in goal for us explained why he was better than we’d expected.

Baseball’s All-Star game is a little bit of a sham — more of a mid-season jolly for the players and league executives than a serious measure of how the game’s best proponents measure up against each other.

Baseball’s All-Star game is a little bit of a sham — more of a mid-season jolly for the players and league executives than a serious measure of how the game’s best proponents measure up against each other.

He’d won over the judges but Danny O’Connor’s face and entire demeanour seemed more like a swollen tribute to some sort of courageous defeat.

When Harlem is hot, there aren’t many other places in the world where history seems to drip down so readily from the fire escapes and battered neon signs.

Word of warning: this is a column about the media and the people charged with keeping them at bay.

Saturday morning in Houston, Texas and it’s already too hot for rugby or anything really.