“It’s very… American, isn’t it?” Baseball is a cornerstone of Americana that has helped me get past that attitude.

Most basketball fans with even the slightest bit of self-respect become worn out pretty quickly by whatever the New York Knicks are selling.

Rashard Mendenhall kind of wanted to disappear, he told the world this past Sunday.

I am back in touch with Eamonn Gormley because he is coming out with a book that is as clear-eyed as his passion about the potential for the GAA overseas.

No wonder baseball is held so close to American hearts.

If you’re knee deep in the Netflix series House of Cards like me and Barack Obama, then you’ll know the office of the Vice President of the United States of America has rarely enjoyed a more glamorous or salacious depiction of its daily agenda.

What makes Michael Sam so important to the gay rights movement is that he will be bringing their cause into a forbidden zone.

JOHN RIORDAN The second instalment of Ali-Liston may have produced one of the most iconic images of sport in the 20th Century but there’s a refreshing spontaneity in the boyish wonder of Cassius Clay when he won the world heavyweight title for the first time.

New York takes all the credit, talking a big game and laying on the hottest Super Bowl bashes.

They might share a common cause but this weekend, the Denver Gaels and Seattle Gaels GAA clubs are split by a common desire for Super Bowl success.