Griffith College Swords Thunder remain at the summit of the Men’s Super League after a 100-97 extra-time win over Templeogue.

The Pittsburgh Steelers clinched their NFL play-off place with a last-gasp win over the Baltimore Ravens - but reigning champions the Denver Broncos were dumped out and embarrassed by the Kansas City Chiefs.

The Carolina Panthers’ poor start to the season continued as they crashed to a third defeat in four matches after going down 48-33 to the Atlanta Falcons.

Cork’s progression to the All-Ireland U21 final, on Saturday, April 30, looks set to disrupt local football championship fixtures.

Quarterback Cam Newton threw five touchdown passes to lead the Carolina Panthers to a 10th straight NFL victory on Sunday, a 44-16 pounding of the Washington Redskins.

An appeal has been issued for experienced divers to join searches for the last victim of last week’s wave tragedy off West Cork.

Nemo Rangers 1-18  Ilen Rovers 0-10: This 10-point win for Nemo Rangers was not as straightforward as the scoreline suggests.

For a club with a small catchment area, Ilen Rovers are well used to punching above their weight.

High profile coaching casualties followed quick on the heels of the final day of the NFL’s regular season as the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Jets parted ways with their coaches yesterday.

The Pittsburgh Steelers came on strong in the fourth quarter on Sunday night for a 42-21 NFL triumph over Cincinnati that blew open the AFC North division race.

Andrew Luck enjoyed a landmark day as the Indianapolis Colts beat the Washington Redskins 49-27 on Sunday.

Peyton Manning broke Brett Favre’s all-time record for touchdown passes, leading Denver to a 42-17 rout of San Francisco to cap a scintillating Sunday in the NFL.

Baseball umpire Hunter Wendeldstedt took a rather dramatic tumble in Toronto last Saturday.

The NFL play-off picture was completed on Sunday with a dramatic final series of regular season games delivering big results for the Green Bay Packers, the Philadelphia Eagles and the San Diego Chargers.

A win over divisional rivals Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday evening saw the Denver Broncos emerge from the toughest part of their NFL campaign relatively unscathed and in poll position in the AFC and will now retain home advantage throughout January’s play-offs.

Just short of 100 points were scored in an incredible Texas shoot-out between the Denver Broncos and the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday which left Peyton Manning’s Broncos in control of one of the three unbeaten records in the NFL thanks to a 51-48 win.

Unstoppable Peyton Manning continued his electric start to the NFL season by throwing four touchdown passes as the Denver Broncos moved to 4-0 with a 52-20 crushing of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Baltimore 34 San Francisco 31

Superbowl XLVII:

The long-awaited Harbaugh Bowl is suddenly a reality in the NFL.

The NFL play-offs continue tomorrow with four teams left vying for a spot in next month’s Super Bowl XLVII.

With the clock winding down, Ray Lewis walked to the centre of the field to soak it all in.

As the NFL heads into December, nearly every division race has an outright favourite.

Ben Roethlisberger threw two touchdown passes on Sunday to help Pittsburgh beat the New York Giants 24-20 in an NFL game played with Hurricane Sandy’s devastation as a backdrop.

As the kick-off was dropping into Jacoby Jones’ hands deep in his end zone, every Baltimore Ravens fan in the stadium and Dallas Cowboy on the pitch expected him to take a knee.

Hours after his younger brother’s death in a motorcycle accident, Torrey Smith caught six passes for 127 yards and scored two touchdowns to spark Baltimore to a last-play 31-30 NFL win over New England.

We never love referees, we only loathe them and we rarely fully appreciate how much we need them.

Two teenage kayakers are recovering after they were rescued from a cave in west Cork early this morning.

It was like 1992 all over again, with a team from Co Clare coming to the heart of Co Cork football territory, and taking home the trophies.

A crew had to jump aboard an unmanned runaway speedboat heading for a busy pier, in what was one of four dramatic rescues Baltimore RNLI performed in just 24 hours.

Ilen Rovers claimed their first silverware as a senior football club when they won the Tadhg Crowley Plate final by beating Bishopstown after extra-time in Baltimore yesterday.

Ilen Rovers are the early leaders in Division 1 of the Cork County Football League – though only on point scored – after they were one of three two-point winners in the first round of games yesterday afternoon.

IN just his first year as an NFL coach, Jim Harbaugh has brought his San Francisco 49ers to the brink of a Super Bowl appearance.

THE heroic lifeboat crew involved in some of the state’s most dramatic rescues are training in England this week to prepare for the arrival of a state-of-the-art new vessel.

THE Pittsburgh Steelers will be hoping star quarterback Ben Roethlisberger can survive 60 minutes of football tomorrow as the NFL wild card round gets going this weekend.

THE New England Patriots secured the number one seed in the AFC and home advantage for the NFL play-offs as they came from three touchdowns down to hammer the Buffalo Bills.

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THE New Orleans Saints suffered a shock 31-21 defeat to the previously winless St Louis Rams and the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the New England Patriots in NFL action on Sunday.

A major salvage operation gets underway later on a yacht that capsized off the Cork coast.

“I DON’T plan to do it again,” skipper and owner of the Rambler 100, George David, 69, said, just hours after he was plucked from the dark stormy waters off the Fastnet Rock.