No doubt many readers are watching GAA games from the traditional perspective this summer, but depending on your familiarity with stadium seating plans, some of you may be trying to peer past the increasingly large squadrons of backroom staff clogging up the sidelines of the nation.

The World Cup kicks off shortly in Brazil, with associated nonsense either starting soon or already well under way (exhibit A: Wayne Rooney’s faux outtrage, with the English media’s interest in him and his family).

Quite the kerfuffle over a man bringing a computer to the FA Cup final, I notice.

Are we looking for too much in our analysis?

The controversy about racist comments from Donald Sterling, owner of the LA Clippers NBA team, is bubbling along in the US.

It was threatening enough in Charleville on Saturday, but the rain held off, more or less, and Cork-Limerick played out their hurling challenge in that kind of eerie twilight you sometimes get on a late spring evening.

I haven’t written about the Sky-GAA deal yet but brace yourself now, because I really feel I have to.

It was four years ago when Tony Browne sat down with this writer for a long chat about his passion.

They say the new black card system in football has shaved away a good deal of the cynicism. I decided to have a look yesterday at the game I was covering, Derry-Mayo in Croke Park, to see if the evidence bore out the presumption.

The temptation is always to look for the deeper meaning, of course. The extra layer.