A group of researchers have examined “the prevalence and the effect of injury” in British horseracing staff over the course of a year.

When Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte step into the ring Saturday night they sit at the apex of a sport that is both modern and pre-modern.

As well as serving as a broader answer to saving people from drunkenness and debauchery and other acts of impiety, there was also the ambition to use sport to recruit people to active engagement with religion. It made sense for religious organisations to involve themselves when sporting organisations were being founded.

There is much to admire in the Association's Strategic plan announced earlier this week but delivering on its objectives will require huge resources and the commitment of volunteers.

There is always a little shock when someone walks out of a dream, walks away from precisely the position they have sought to achieve.

Here’s a statement of the blindingly obvious: it is a massive weekend for Gaelic football. And it is a peculiar kind of massive, because actually winning the league pales in importance besides managing to avoid relegation.

It has happened in countries great and small – from the Olympian cavorting with the Chinese in recent decades to the Argentinian junta’s World Cup of 1978.

Everyone who loves sport has a personal story that explains this love. This is a story which is usually built into the sheer physical pleasure that comes from the act of playing.

The failures of the world of sport to resist the embrace of Putin are also Irish failures. 

This is a notion that is rooted in centuries of rhetoric that find their greatest exposition is phrases such as Duke of Wellington’s supposed claim that the Battle of Waterloo was really won on the playing fields of Eton.