Annual traditions are everywhere in San Antonio.

Does your nana love sport? Because this one adores NBA basketball!

The San Antonio Spurs spent most of the past week resting, answering the same questions from the media and battering each other during practice.

“Let’s face it,” reasoned Time Magazine, with its online readership on Monday, “It’s good to have the Irish back.”

Barack Obama has been re-elected as US president, according to projections.

For those who follow his exploits closely, Jim Irsay admitting Sunday’s Super Bowl is the end of an era for the team he owns will come as no surprise.

THE HEADLINES ebb and flow but this last week in American sport gushed in an entertaining torrent of confusion. It didn’t matter if the moment was glorious, seedy, violent or downright miraculous, skill and common sense ranked low and we, the humble onlookers, were all the better for it.

The Vatican hinted that it may use behind-the-scenes diplomacy in a bid to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery.

The world is just a day away from sweeping change in America, both presidential candidates declared today.

Indiana Gal will face eight rivals when she seeks Group Three honours in the Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Omagh’s Fergal Rafferty shot the lowest round of his American collegiate career as he led the Sam Houston State University men's golf team to fourth place in the University of Texas-San Antonio Invitational in Kerrville, Texas.

US murderer David Leon Woods was executed by lethal injection early today for killing a 77-year-old man during a 1984 burglary.

The US Federal Reserve sent record payouts of more than $12 billion in cash to Baghdad on giant pallets aboard military planes shortly before the United States gave control back to Iraqis.

US Under-secretary of State John Bolton’s chances of winning Senate approval to be UN ambassador appeared to brighten as Republican fence-sitters drifted in his direction.

A man who spent nearly two decades on death row in the US for raping and killing a teenager was executed early today.