On Saturday night in New York, the best player in College Football will be handed the coveted Heisman Trophy.

Not for the first time, I’m holding my hand up to acknowledge that America is chipping away at what I used to hold dear.

Waters’ knee injury was bad enough but the sorry tale of how his body has angrily rejected the screws placed in his knee to keep it together is the epitome of frustration.

The Atlanta Olympics brought a huge influx of Irish to that great southern city in 1996.

Monday Night Football has been a cornerstone of American television since its inception on ABC in the 1970s.

The Denver Broncos will be sweating this week on the fitness of quarterback Peyton Manning, who led them to their eighth win of the season on Sunday but saw his injury-prone ankle targeted in the process.

The first time I got to touch the Sam Maguire was in October 1990 when he and Liam MacCarthy came to visit Blackrock Hurling Club.

The way the Boston Red Sox clinched the World Series this past week is almost too corny to be true.

One of the signposts welcoming traffic to Brooklyn from Queens calls on those who pass by to “Believe the Hype”, paraphrasing that classic Public Enemy hip-hop track.

Even weary fans of the Dallas Cowboys could not have imagined how they would succumb to their nightmare defeat by the Detroit Lions when apparently in control of their NFC clash in Motown on Sunday.