Tom Brady and coach Bill Belichick have a special understanding, writes Kieran Shannon.

Last Saturday, I was in Waterford watching some games in the Tony Forristal tournament: under-14 intercounty hurling.

LeBron James continued his love affair with the Eastern Conference play-offs as the Cleveland Cavaliers booked their place in the final.

The Golden State Warriors' NBA play-off win over the Houston Rockets was overshadowed by another injury for reigning MVP Stephen Curry.

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr knows just what his players are going through down the stretch of a potentially record-setting season. Having stumbled to the finish of a 72-win season as a player with the Chicago Bulls two decades ago, Kerr is watching his Warriors do the same.

A few months before Bryan Cullen would become the first Dublin man in 16 years to lift Sam Maguire, the then director of football operations at Chelsea, Mike Forde, spoke at a conference in Liverpool about a bit of a continuing professional development tour he took in on Stateside.

NBA star Matt Bonner is not a fan of the new, larger iPhone. He believes that using it caused him to develop tennis elbow, which affected his shooting percentages.

For a while there, it seemed like the NBA player of the year vote deciding the regular season’s Most Valuable Player would devolve into an alphabet soup of stats, highlights and what “valuable” really even means.

On Monday, the Boston Celtics were the surprising beneficiaries of one of the most generous systems in professional sport.

In his time studying sports science, Ed Coughlan got the opportunity to study elite sportsmen and to tease out the little differences that seperate the very good from the great.

Personal reflections from Irish Examiner sports writers, with some 2015 wishes and predictions to boot.

There has been a lot said and written about women’s sport in Ireland in the past few weeks. 

If you have yet to see Magali Harvey’s try for Canada against France in Wednesday’s second Women’s World Cup semi-final then all that can be said is get thee to a computer or a smartphone ASAP.

On Saturday, July 5, the LeBron James camp approached Sports Illustrated writer Lee Jenkins and set in train what is arguably the best scoop of the US sporting year.

That thrilling, slightly jarring draw between the US and Portugal on Sunday night was the most watched soccer game of all time in America.

What are you currently driving?

Kawhi Leonard will probably never adorn an NBA billboard in China, nor will Boris Diaw or Patty Mills.

Thurles last Sunday. One new discovery. A vaccine. When the terrible pandemics look set to engulf us, someone always mixes a potion before apocalypse.

ENGLAND: Diners at a branch of Nando’s got more than a serving of chicken when the prime minister walked in for a meal.

You can’t beat a good buzzer-beater!

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.

As a reporter, you’d watch those Sunday evening draws anticipating where the wonderful magical backdoor journey could take you.

LeBron James is closer to all-time greatness after inspiring the Miami Heat to retain the Larry O’Brien trophy

"I'm LeBron James from Akron, Ohio, from the inner city. I'm not even supposed to be here… It doesn't matter what anybody else says about me. I ain't got no worries."

The San Antonio Spurs spent most of the past week resting, answering the same questions from the media and battering each other during practice.

They have a phrase in American sport: “the Face of the Franchise”.

When the members of the LA Lakers team that won the 1971-72 NBA title got together last year to reminisce about the good old days, one question dominated the event: would there ever be a season like theirs?

In recent weeks, a number of senior inter-county officials have met with representatives of Edge 10, a sophisticated predictive performance monitoring and management software system.

A model who was injured during a bottle-throwing nightclub brawl between Chris Brown and Drake sued both singers and the owners of the New York City nightclub.

Sports governing bodies from Japan and Australia are under fire after complaints that male Olympic athletes flew business class to the London Games, while the women sat in the cheap seats.

Drake and Chris Brown have been offered $1m each to continue their feud over Rihanna in a boxing ring.

These used to be the moments that suffocated LeBron James.

Americans like their team sports to be reduced to duels, the battle of stars who are more often than not defined by recent form.

Until this season, the Los Angeles Kings ice hockey team were really only known for one saga: the infamous big-money acquisition of Wayne Gretzky, a move that shocked the sport and tore the heart out of a city and a country in the late 1980s.

Tony Parker has been “taking refuge in basketball” since splitting with Eva Longoria in November.

CARLOS BOOZER led the Chicago Bulls to victory after a superb late fightback by the Detroit Pistons took the game to overtime.

Tony Parker is hoping for an "amicable" divorce from Eva Longoria Parker.

Tony Parker has filed his own divorce papers against his wife Eva Longoria.

Tony Parker wasn’t surprised by estranged wife Eva Longoria Parker’s decision to file for divorce.

LeBron James will be out of contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2010 and speculation about his future has already reached fever pitch, writes Simon Lewis.

LOS ANGELES Lakers guard Kobe Bryant rates reaching this year’s NBA Finals among his greatest achievements.

Patrick Swayze defied reports he's close to death by appearing happy and healthy at a Los Angeles Lakers play-off game on Friday night.

'Desperate Housewives' star Eva Longoria Parker has landed her basketball player husband Tony Parker in trouble after revealing the sportsman often fakes his on-court injuries.