Sunday evening began at 5pm when the Detroit Pistons played a thrilling match against the Denver Nuggets.

US sportswear maker Nike has been hit with a €12.5m fine for blocking cross-border sales of soccer merchandise of some of Europe’s best-known clubs, the latest EU sanction against such restrictions.

The Denver Nuggets secured a play-off berth for the first time in six years after a 114-105 win against the Boston Celtics.

Kemba Walker scored a career-high 60 points for the Charlotte Hornets but it still was not enough to top the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday night.

Simon Lewis This is why he came home.

Tralee start-up is using 3D manufacturing to make home decor for retailing giant Ikea, writes Trish Dromey

McGregor was told he had "nothing to be ashamed of" by boxing great Lennox Lewis.

AS ADULT babies Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un continue to see who has the biggest, hardest, longest missiles, we can only scan the horizons in desperation for Dennis Rodman.

Al Pacino’s “Inches” speech in Any Given Sunday may make the hairs stand on the back of your neck, says Dr Ed Coughlan. But does it work? Consistently? And if so, for how long? Or is it just for effect?

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.

There’s little in sport as distasteful, as sly and scurrilous sledging, yet little as smile-inducing as a bit of witty in-game trash-talking either.

Kanye West can unsurprisingly be added to the list of celebrities sporting an all-gold Apple Watch Edition with a gold Link Bracelet.

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.

The homes of gladiators and country music are among the landmarks joining the global celebrations for St Patrick’s Day this year.

To cheer or to jeer, that is the question, writes Kieran Shannon.

The eve of another cup final weekend and with it a sense of history about it for those of us steeped in Irish hoops, writes Kieran Shannon.

Benny the Bull came to their rescue after the couple started arguing on camera.

The kiss cam must be one of the most mortifying inventions ever.

LeBron James returned to Miami for the first time on Christmas Day but there was no generosity afforded from the Heat who saw off his Cleveland Cavaliers 101-91.

Most basketball fans with even the slightest bit of self-respect become worn out pretty quickly by whatever the New York Knicks are selling.

Chicago Bulls centre Joakim Noah is in the form of his life this season in the absence of star teammate Derrick Rose and produced another talismanic performance Sunday evening against the Miami Heat.

The first openly gay athlete to compete in one of the four major American sports received a standing ovation upon making his home debut last night.

Michael Jordan has always insisted that his successes on court with the Chicago Bulls were born of his willingness to fail, fail and fail again, and Jamie Heaslip has taken a similar approach after Ireland’s Six Nations loss to England last weekend.

Dennis Rodman has checked into an undisclosed alcohol rehabilitation centre to treat his long-time struggle with alcoholism, his agent says.

CUP RUNNETH OVER: Italian runner Devis Licciardi

On the surface, the former basketball player Dennis Rodman seems easy to grasp.

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.

Reading Ronan O’Gara explain the timing of his retirement in these pages the other day, it reminded us of the outlook of another Cork sporting legend on the end game.

LAST month, Andreas Varady attended his manager Quincy Jones’ 80th birthday party in Las Vegas, met Will Smith and Chris Tucker, and shared a limousine with jazz singer Nikki Yanofsky.

It was a good weekend for two of the greatest, most divisive athletes in the world.

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?

Ex-basketball star Dennis Rodman has hung out with Kim Jong Un during an improbable journey to North Korea, watching the Harlem Globetrotters with the leader and later drinking and dining on sushi with him.

Michael Jordan turns 50 on Sunday and there couldn’t be a more appropriate day to do it.

Back when I met Dave Hopla last March, he told a story which gives an insight into Kobe Bryant.

This is new for football, what it has with Messi and Ronaldo.

Michael Jordan was out on the course early, rooting for his team-mates to give him one more win in Chicago.

Tiger Woods today admitted he shoulders responsibility for the United States’ poor recent record in the Ryder Cup ahead of this week’s contest in Chicago.