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.

In early January I received a hand-drawn map of the Drinagh bowling road in West Cork.

What Stick lacked in muscle, he compensated with grey matter.

‘Dodgers’ is Bill Beverly’s dazzling crime novel that follows the blood-soaked journey of East, a Los Angeles gang member, and his three friends sent on a mission to kill a key witness. John Daly savours the grizzly tale.

Midfielder Yaya Toure’s future at Manchester City appears to be drawing to a close as Inter Milan vice-president Javier Zanetti claimed the Italian giants are close to completing a move for the Ivory Coast star.

Now that Derek Jeter has left baseball, the rest of the sport can focus on the real business of October, the play-offs and the suddenly dramatic road to the World Series.

If the last week has shown us anything — and we say this without any intended pun regarding the coming All-Ireland hurling final between Kilkenny and Tipperary — it is that there is more than one way to skin a cat when it comes to the tricky business of managing a team.

Consider a couple of scenes from the golf world this year, with emphasis on ‘world’.

Just a couple of weeks back, a trip through the Far East happened to briefly coincide with a trip by Barcelona through the same part of the world.

Kanye West was booed at a baseball game in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Manchester United’s owners stand to make about three times their investment in the club if it successfully goes public.

FIRST stop the Bronx.

Rihanna has found “balance” in her life.

Rihanna has credited her boyfriend Matt Kemp with keeping her “sane”.

Los Angeles Dodgers baseball star Matt Kemp has finally opened up about his relationship with singer Rihanna – who he was first romantically linked to in January – admitting he has never been happier.

Rihanna’s rumoured boyfriend insists they are “just friends”.

Fergie is eager to start a family with husband Josh Duhamel.

BASEBALL stars David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez, who powered the Boston Red Sox to World Series titles in 2004 and 2007, tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, it was reported yesterday.

Victoria Beckham, resplendent in a Los Angeles Dodgers windbreaker, filmed scenes for her upcoming US reality show before the New York Mets-Dodgers game last night.

In America they call the third round of a tournament Moving Day but nobody was expecting Tiger Woods to be going anywhere today.

A satirical US TV show has provided conclusive proof that a Los Angeles man did not kill a 16-year-old girl who had testified against his brother in a court case.

Malcolm Glazer, who took American football’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers from obscurity to the Super Bowl title, has increased his stake in Manchester United.