A full house of 30,000 will watch Galway play Dublin in Boston in Super 11 hurling. It provides a platform to present hurling to larger audiences, writes Donal Óg Cusack from Boston.

Never mind these bandwagon-jumping Johnny-come-latelys at Red Bull and New York City, true Big Apple sawker fans get behind the revived New York Cosmos and Pele’s old club have made this week’s box-office signing.

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

After a year of users "screaming" for an instant messaging function to aid their musical discoveries, the founders of Irish-based music app, Soundwave have given the people what they want.

You can’t beat a good buzzer-beater!

An Irish music discovery company, founded after seeing a Swedish girl walk into a lamppost, believes they are on the same growth trajectory that led to Twitter and Instagram’s multi-billion-dollar successes.

LeBron James is closer to all-time greatness after inspiring the Miami Heat to retain the Larry O’Brien trophy

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

Who is to blame for Facebook’s initial public offering?

LeBron James led the way with a triple-double as the Miami Heat completed a 4-1 series win over the Oklahoma City Thunder to secure the NBA title last night.

Khloe Kardashian is getting her own radio show.

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CHRISTMAS DAY is the jewel in the crown of the NBA season but this year it will bring with it a bigger gift than ever: basketball’s return from the brink.

TWITTER has revealed that Charlie Sheen and the Egyptian uprising were amongst the most popular subjects for hashtags in 2011.

DIRK NOWITZKI, the German playmaker who led the Dallas Mavericks to an NBA Finals victory, admitted he was “overwhelmed” by the response as he came back to his tiny home city Wuerzburg yesterday.

IN the year I saw my first live NBA game, it was worth a sleepless night to catch the season’s last.

HE held the trophy into the air, Dirk Nowitzki marching across the court pushing midnight now, pushing past his wildest dreams as a skinny, scared teenager arriving in the NBA all those years ago.

THE NEWS spread like wildfire during the third quarter of Tuesday night’s NBA Finals Game Four.

NOTHING quite illustrates Alex Ferguson’s extraordinary longevity better than the juxtaposition of images from Manchester and Dallas on Sunday.

TWEET ON, brother.

Michael Phelps underlined his determination to dominate the swimming with the destruction of the world record in the 400 metres Individual Medley as he picked up his first gold of the 2008 Beijing Games.

The future of Liverpool Football Club could not be in safer hands than those of Tom Hicks, according to the man who runs another arm of the American businessman’s sporting empire.

Former basketball star Dennis Rodman has been released from custody after being arrested for allegedly being drunk in public.

HEAD coach of the Irish basketball team, Gerry Fitzpatrick, has announced his squad for next week’s friendly against England and the European Championship semi-final round games against Germany, Croatia and former Macedonia (FYROM).