Case for the prosecution.

There seems to be no shortage of statistic boffins emerging from the US, and the latest numbers genius to catch the zeitgeist seems to be Nate Silver, now well known from the FiveThirtyEight Blog at the New York Times.

The reference to golf elsewhere on the page was sparked by a book I borrowed last week, Over Time by Frank DeFord, which contains an elegantly exasperated head-shake over the pretentions of that sport.

The retirement of Ronan O’Gara ends a career that long ago edged from impressive to incredible.

Hot on the heels of Donegal player Paddy McBrearty’s no show a couple of weeks ago at a GAA disciplinary hearing, we now have the ‘Corbett-Delaney Avoidance’, which sounds more Richard Ludlum thriller title than GAA embarrassment.

In the absence of the man with the most famous baseball cap in Kilkenny, Cats selector Michael Dempsey faced the media after yesterday’s narrow win over Tipperary in the league final.

I am a little late to the Tony Grealish tribute show, but bear with me.

Anyone with an ounce of taste has been reading one American writer in particular for the last couple of years.

As manager to the Munster rugby team, he oversaw the seat-of-the-pants transition from amateurism to the pro era — with all its attendant scrapes and dramas. It was the age of innocence, smiles Jerry Holland, but there were as many guilty as innocent!

When the Clermont front row of internationals gets tired they troop off...to be replaced by another three internationals. Damien Varley engaged with Michael Moynihan yesterday to outline the task facing Munster in the scrum this weekend