A year ago, on a hot Tuesday afternoon in Flushing Meadows, Queens, two tennis players were embarking on dramatically divergent paths after the best summer of their careers.

Since 1959, the seemingly impossible task of deciding a North American senior football champion has challenged the overseers of the GAA across the US and Canada.

We never love referees, we only loathe them and we rarely fully appreciate how much we need them.

Sports personalities in Boston always have a one-way ticket to Palookaville in their back pocket.

If you waited until evening and hurdled past the spoiler alerts on news and sports channels, you’d have had to wait until after 11pm to see Bolt make history

Andrew Bree didn’t know much about Knoxville, Tennessee before he arrived over a decade ago at the prestigious university around which the town is built.

Even President Barack Obama took time out of his busy re-election campaign to wade into last week’s debate-du-jour.

When the email from the Orlando Hurling Club in Florida popped into my inbox a few weeks back, I wasn’t sure how to respond.

Van Morrison’s Into the Mystic seems to nestle on the humid air and float away off to the Ramapo Mountains, visible in the distance beyond the ballpark’s centre field fence.

Writer and journalist George Kimball hung on long enough for one last American Independence Day. He died a year ago on Friday.