Donegal's Yvonne Bonner has rounded out her first season down under by winning her club's goal of the year award.

The past year produced another crop of bizarre, eye-watering injuries for sport stars. And not all of them happened during the action.

Mayo legend Cora Staunton has inked a new deal with AFL outfit Greater Western Sydney Giants — but won’t be returning to Australia until November.

Israel Folau has addressed his views on homosexuality following the backlash to his divisive social media comments, while revealing how his switch from rugby league to AFL left him “emotionally broken”.

Tom Brady piloted Super Bowl champions New England to the winning touchdown with 56 seconds left on Sunday as the Patriots clinched the AFC East with a gut-wrenching 27-24 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Mayo Ladies Football legend Cora Staunton has been getting grips to Aussie Rules.

Cora Staunton will be playing Aussie Rules next season.

America’s Pastime has been played at San Quentin State Prison — California’s most notorious jail — for nearly 100 years.

Aaron Hernandez, Wayward NFL star whose life ended in a Massachusetts prison cell, remembered by Colm Greaves.

There will be a familiar feel to the NFL playoffs next weekend: Every divisional-round game will be a rematch from the regular season, the first time that’s happened in six years.

The Pittsburgh Steelers trounced the Miami Dolphins 30-12 in the NFL wildcard play-offs.

The Minnesota Vikings continued their perfect start to the NFL season last night with a 24-10 victory over the New York Giants.

It’s the two-time reigning MVP who is trying to finish off a record setting season with a second straight title, against a two-time champion who is tantalisingly close to finally ending Cleveland’s 52-year title drought.

The New England Patriots stretched their NFL season-opening win streak to nine games as Stephen Gostkowski’s field goal with one second left lifted them to a 27-26 win over the New York Giants.

Hillwalking, climbing and mountaineering have long been favourite pastimes in this country. Dan MacCarthy says Paddy O’Leary’s new history captures the intense rivalry of these sports’ participants

Kelly O’Brien loves ice hockey and isn’t adverse to hanging out at pop-up ice skating rinks in December so she couldn’t resist trying out Red Bull extreme ice skating.

Andrew Luck enjoyed a landmark day as the Indianapolis Colts beat the Washington Redskins 49-27 on Sunday.

The great Jack Kyle passed yesterday, aged 88, but what a full life he lived and he knew it.

A young player from New Orleans, Odell Beckham Jr, stole the show on Sunday night with a three-fingered catch that will intrigue for years to come

Tom Brady sparked the New England Patriots to their seventh consecutive victory in a 34-9 rout of Detroit, while Indianapolis receiver T.Y. Hilton scored a touchdown for his newborn daughter.

US federal agents conducted surprise inspections of National Football League team doctors and trainers on Sunday as part of an ongoing probe into painkiller drug abuse, the US media reported on Sunday.

World Series history was made on Wednesday night in Missouri when pitcher Madison Bumgarner delivered a performance for the ages to help the San Francisco Giants overcome the Kansas City Royals in a memorable winner-takes-all Game Seven.

At least two people were shot and one person stabbed after fans of the San Francisco Giants flooded the city’s streets celebrating the baseball team’s World Series victory over the Kansas City Royals.

The San Francisco Giants have won the World Series after securing a 3-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals in Game Seven at Kauffman Stadium.

From time to time, I become convinced that professional sport, as we know it, will cease to exist within my potential lifetime. Will decline, anyway.

BEGINNERS’ LUCK

Over 50 years have elapsed since Jack Kyle hung up his boots yet half a century later he remains one of Irish rugby’s most iconic figures.

“Jimmy; was it dead mother, blind father or blind mother, dead father?”

In the small hours of Monday morning, just south of a bitterly cold Boston, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots finally overcame the Denver Broncos in an instant NFL classic that provided almost everything.

After a rip-roaring start to the season, the Kansas City Chiefs finally fell to their first defeat in the NFL this year, losing an absorbing clash by ten points at the home of Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos on Sunday.

Former Young Hurler of the Year turned AFL star, Setanta Ó hAilpín, tied the knot over the weekend in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Just short of 100 points were scored in an incredible Texas shoot-out between the Denver Broncos and the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday which left Peyton Manning’s Broncos in control of one of the three unbeaten records in the NFL thanks to a 51-48 win.