A few hundred metres from Nick Nurse’s city centre apartment in downtown Toronto stands Fort York, one of Canada’s most significant historical landmarks, the symbol of the still nascent country’s war of 1812 with the US.

Irish basketball has taken its first tentative steps towards a return to senior international action.

IF the US isn’t feeling the tremors of the Robbie Keane deal as much as Crumlin and north London, then it’s because American sports fans have enough of their own want-away stars to contend with as it is.

KILLESTER continue their defence of the Nivea For Men’s SuperLeague tomorrow with a potentially tough clash at home to Bord Gáis Neptune.