Rob Heffernan will be making a short stopover in Cork on Tuesday evening as he attempts to defend his Cork City Sports 3,000m race-walk title.

A Scrabble player has been thrown out of the US national championship tournament after being caught hiding blank letter tiles.

Five-time champion Roger Federer held off a game challenge from Germany’s Simon Greul to set up a US Open third-round match with Lleyton Hewitt.