Xander Bogaerts thrashed a 451-foot, three-run homer in the first inning as the Boston Red Sox claimed a history-making 19-3 win over the New York Yankees at Fenway Park.

Defending World Series champions the Boston Red Sox slumped to their third loss in a row as the New York Yankees claimed a 4-1 home win.

James Paxton struck out 12 as the New York Yankees thrashed bitter rivals the Boston Red Sox 8-0.

The Los Angeles Dodgers set a record for home runs on the opening day of a Major League Baseball season with eight in the 12-5 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The influence of law and politics on sport will continue to deepen in 2019. In the first of a two-part series, Jack Anderson looks at some landmark sporting anniversaries that fall this year.

The Mexican wave can be one of the best/most annoying traditions at sporting events and one American baseball fan has made it clear what side of the fence he stands on.

In among the rubble and whirlwind of hot and bothered sports talk radio that blitzed through Monday evening’s rush hour, one bit of perspective on the heavy sanctioning of Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady rang true.

I noted last week that there was a position vacant on the Kilkenny hurling team — that of full-back, given the departure of JJ Delaney into retirement. I think there might be even more significant vacancies in Irish sport, however.

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The sensation was strange at first. Unfamiliar.

Baseball’s All-Star game is a little bit of a sham — more of a mid-season jolly for the players and league executives than a serious measure of how the game’s best proponents measure up against each other.

Baseball’s All-Star game is a little bit of a sham — more of a mid-season jolly for the players and league executives than a serious measure of how the game’s best proponents measure up against each other.

First off, a round of applause for the folks in Croke Park.

A piece of advice if you ever get the chance to visit Miami: avoid the F-Word at all costs.

YANKEE STADIUM, which closed last Saturday night, opened for business on April 18, 1923 with a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.

Patrick Swayze made his first public appearance since his pancreatic cancer diagnosis to provide a big surprise at the start of America's 'Stand Up 2 Cancer' telethon on Friday night.

Thousands of mourners, including actor Samuel L Jackson and comic Chris Rock, gathered for the funeral of US funnyman Bernie Mac on Saturday.

Two finals, three semi-finals and an awful lot of heartache; the near misses are scratched into the soul of every Munster supporter. Yet a dip into the sporting archives reveals that those who follow the advice of ancient Scottish king Robert The Bruce, to try, try and try again if at first they do not succeed, are very often rewarded. Eventually. SIMON LEWIS investigates.

THE Chicago White Sox are World Series champions again, and yet another epic streak of futility is not just wiped away but swept away.

The Chicago White Sox won the World Series after completing a sweep of the Houston Astros with a 1-0 victory in game four.

Boston Red Sox, 2004’s World Series winners, were thrashed 14-2 by Chicago White Sox in game one of their American League Division Series yesterday.

WORLD Series champions Boston and the Houston Astros clinched the final two Major League Baseball playoff berths on the last day of the regular season on Sunday.

The famed independent Stateside moviemaker John Sayles knows all about Ireland ... and what he knows is all good.