This is how the Georgia Tech swim team decided to spend their time after some icy weather forced the cancellation of a meet in Virginia.

Lee Corso didn’t make the journey to Dublin this time but the veteran ESPN analyst could hardly contain himself on TV when he was asked for his memories of the original ‘Emerald Isle Classic’, played in a very different Lansdowne Road, back in 1988.

Lee Corso didn’t make the journey to Dublin this time but the veteran ESPN analyst could hardly contain himself on TV this week when he was asked for his memories of the original ‘Emerald Isle Classic’, played in a very different Lansdowne Road, back in 1988, writes Brendan O’Brien of the Irish Examiner.

HOPE JAHREN is an award-winning paleobiologist. The love in the subtitle could apply to a number of things in this memoir. 

With a third-round, three-under-par 69 that gave him outright second place behind Jordan Spieth after 54 holes, the golfing world wanted to know a little more about 24-year-old Smylie Kaufman.

Sometimes, sports stars are never more in peril than when they’ve stepped away from the action. From the gruesome to the outlandish, brace yourself for some of the more unusual injuries of the sporting year

The Aviva Stadium is to host another American Football game in 2016 — four years after it last welcomed gridiron teams to Dublin.

Some people think that filters are the worst thing to have happened to photography. But they can help photos get more views and engagement.

Cork legend Larry Tompkins has offered a damning assessment of the modern game, labelling it “cotton wool football” and calling for an urgent overhaul.

Those looking for love online should think carefully about their profile name, with research finding that starting with a letter in the first half of the alphabet as important as an attractive-looking photo.

Croke Park Stadium Director Peter McKenna has revealed his ambition to make Croke Park the home of American college football despite the failure to secure a profit from last August’s ‘Croke Park Classic’ — but the dream of bringing the NFL to Jones Road has faded.

Driven by exceptionally warm ocean waters, Earth smashed a record for heat in May and is likely to keep on breaking high temperature marks, US experts say.

Scientists in the US have invented a “monorail” system which could stop cancer cells from spreading by diverting them out of a vital organ into an inhospitable part of the body where they will not be able to survive.

A Limerick businessman has met with US officials to discuss rolling out gun technology which could prevent mass shootings and make America a safer country.

Olympic cities are often left with debt and idle grounds. London hopes for better, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Mobile phones are likely to be the next target of criminal computer hacking gangs, scientists warned today.

Global warming may have made Hurricane Gustav slightly stronger and wetter, some scientists said today, but few were rushing to make a specific connection between climate change and stronger storms.

Troy Matteson and Ryuji Imada shared the lead on 10 under-par at the halfway mark of the AT&T Classic at the TPC Sugarloaf in Duluth, Georgia.

Companies backed by state agency IDA Ireland injected almost €15bn into the Irish economy last year, it emerged today.

Canadian authorities said today they had foiled plans for terrorist attacks in southern Ontario with the arrests of 17 people who were “inspired by al-Qaida".

Put-upon commuters have a new misery to contend with – the drive to work may be making them fat.