NEWS will have reached you that former baseball star Mark McGwire recently confessed to using steroids, though news may not be quite the right word.

WELL, what else is there to talk about? If the national finals of the tiddly-winks federation were taking place this weekend, the organisers would be inundated with spectators, there’s so little sport on offer anywhere else, inside or outside.

FOR THE love of God can everyone keep IT DOWN back there? Shh. Less of the noise and so forth.

WELL, you’re probably familiar with the story but we’ll air it again anyway.

CHANCES ARE you still feel a bit queasy, a shade of green inching up around the gills this morning?

SO there we were sipping coffee in the Burlington Hotel lobby yesterday, waiting for the Springbok press conference to start. Wondering if we had the hotel right.

BECAUSE EVERY reader of this column is an intelligent cosmopolitan with his or her finger on the zeitgeist, you are all no doubt aware that next week sees the release of the new movie in the multimedia phenomenon known as the Twilight series, New Moon.

“I SUPPOSE,” said a sarcastic pal of our acquaintance, “you’ll be writing about your old pal Levi-Strauss this week and how his anthropological innovations underpinned modern French thought in a variety of fields.”

The book focuses on people’s experiences of the association.

IT NOW appears that Kerry footballer Tadhg Kennelly has joined former NBA star Charles Barkley among the select group of sportspeople who have claimed they were misquoted in their own autobiographies.