They have a phrase in American sport: “the Face of the Franchise”.

I guess part of me was just afraid.

Players could legally work for up to one year in the country within the field or whatever related activity can be created under the realm of the GAA.

The US Navy’s baseball team, the Rota Blue Devils, will make history in July along with the Liverpool Trojans when they play at the first ever Peter O’Malley Invitational Tournament in Dublin.

It was a good weekend for two of the greatest, most divisive athletes in the world.

Next February, the first cold-weather outdoor Super Bowl will take place in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium.

I was extremely confident last summer that when, in this column, I revealed my return to hurling after a 15-year absence, I would be opening myself up to an onslaught of well deserved ridicule.

It’s fairly safe to assume that if Kathy Switzer was running her first Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon, she would have been held back from finishing, with thousands of others.

Maybe this New York soccer friendly will be no more than a money-spinning afterthought tacked onto a busy end-of-season schedule.

At first the words seemed to trip nonchalantly from the mouth of Walter ‘Clyde’ Frazier, a basketball analyst for whom loquaciousness is a job description.