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.

Greg Lalas wrote a powerful piece a few years back in Soccer America about how he took the decision at the age of 24 to leave professional soccer.

When the members of the LA Lakers team that won the 1971-72 NBA title got together last year to reminisce about the good old days, one question dominated the event: would there ever be a season like theirs?

Hall of Famer Susan Moran is probably the greatest female basketballer Ireland has produced. Today in Manhattan, her contribution to college basketball in America will be recognised. We spoke to the Tullamore native about her career in Philadelphia and her official elevation to legendary status

It’s all well and good for the rest of us but basketballers such as Dubliner Hannah Thornton must view ‘March Madness’ with a fair degree of dread.

Áine McKeever was only 10 at the time but she remembers being in awe of Victoria Mallet.

All across the vast and colourful spectrum of American sporting life, there are thought to be around 900 team nicknames which offer varying degrees of offence to certain sections of the population.