Lance Armstrong lied his whole career, made millions out of his deceit and deprived countless competitors of the precious little sunlight that cycling basks in every summer.

The day after part one of the highly-anticipated Lance Armstrong interview on the Oprah Winfrey Network was always going to be about those he crushed along the way.

So, there it is: Lance Armstrong has admitted to Oprah Winfrey that his dominance of cycling from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s was tainted — to put it mildly — by performance-enhancing drugs.

Keith Costigan is still on Dublin time, having just returned to Los Angeles from a trip home.

St Declan’s Stone in Ardmore, Co Waterford is probably more of a geological miracle than anything else but even if it didn’t, as legend has it, follow that county’s patron saint over the Irish Sea from Wales, it remains a subtle testimony to endurance and cultural memory.

BROOKLYN-BORN boxer Heather Hardy was knocked down in her first professional fight in August. She got back up and won.

ESPN has to be careful how it goes at the best of times.

Arsenal’s spending but Stan Kroenke says he’s in for the long haul

It would be easy to enjoy a mini-rant about Juan Manuel Marquez’s miraculous sixth round recovery to land the punch of the year but there are more than enough inches cascading down upon the 39-year-old’s reputation.

Despite the lofty reputation of Irish boxing wherever there happens to be a ring and a bell, if undefeated Tallaght featherweight Patrick ‘The Punisher’ Hyland wins in Las Vegas on Saturday night, he would join a small and exclusive club of world champions.