Hurling's Super 11s, the hybrid game played on a reduced-sized pitch, is moving to the Big Apple after two years in Boston.

The New York Yankees have set a new record for the most home runs hit at an opposing team’s ballpark in a season, smashing five homers in a 9-6 win over the Baltimore Orioles to take their 2019 total at Camden Yards to 32.

The St Louis Cardinals eased past the Chicago Cubs 8-0 to leapfrog their opponents and take the lead of the National League Central.

Xander Bogaerts thrashed a 451-foot, three-run homer in the first inning as the Boston Red Sox claimed a history-making 19-3 win over the New York Yankees at Fenway Park.

The Minnesota Twins set an MLB record in their clash with the Texas Rangers while two teams played through an earthquake last night.

Defending World Series champions the Boston Red Sox slumped to their third loss in a row as the New York Yankees claimed a 4-1 home win.

James Paxton struck out 12 as the New York Yankees thrashed bitter rivals the Boston Red Sox 8-0.

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.

Take a moment to appreciate baseball's newest hero.

One of the greatest movies ever made features Jimmy Breslin, though the great New York columnist, who died over the weekend aged 88, doesn’t even appear on screen.

Former NY Met Dwight Gooden has denied his former baseball compadre Darryl Strawberry’s accusation that he is “a complete junkie-addict ,” claiming his former Met team-mate is taking it personally that Gooden couldn’t make a scheduled public appearance with Strawberry last week.

The Kansas City Royals backed the superb two-hit pitching of Johnny Cueto with a relentless attack to rout the New York Mets 7-1 and take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven World Series into tonight’s crucial Game Three (12.05am, live on BT Sport1).

Maybe there is a game more romanticised, more mythologised than rugby.

The New York Mets completed a four-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs in the National League Championship Series with an 8-3 rout on Wednesday. It put them into the World Series for the first time since 2000.

I enjoyed my holidays, thanks very much. Catalonia is a nice place to be any time, but particularly in the week that Barcelona won the European Cup, with plenty of fireworks in our locality. 

If you ever want your Americana laid on extra thick, try to catch a baseball game on America’s annual Memorial Day, the last Monday in May and the starting gun of summer.

“You a fight fan?” the owner of my laundromat asked as he leaned back against a washing machine, his arm awkwardly stretched back over the whirring of a spin cycle.

Actually, it's closer to €11.90 for Roger McDowell for every 'second spitter' cameo.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you’ll know that Garth Brooks is now playing an amazing five sold out shows at Croke Park this summer and today the great man is 52.

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

Celebrations erupted in Boston as the capture of the remaining marathon bombing suspect was announced in a tweet from police.

Clare are not the first sporting organisation to recognise the benefit of having an experienced hand on the tiller.

Late last night in Miami, the old F Scott Fitzgerald adage about no second acts gracing American lives was given a run for its money by an inconsequential game between the New York Mets and the Miami Marlins.

One of the many thankless tasks at live sporting events is held by the lonely soul singing the anthem.

Van Morrison’s Into the Mystic seems to nestle on the humid air and float away off to the Ramapo Mountains, visible in the distance beyond the ballpark’s centre field fence.

Pete Flynn is firmly ensconced in retirement now so I decided to reconnect with him on Monday.

SOME were nude, others were almost nude but they all made a splash yesterday as the latest “Body Issue” of ESPN Magazine showed some of America’s top athletes in all their power and glory.

AFTER his 50th season as a groundskeeper for the New York Mets, Leitrim man Pete Flynn hung up his rake yesterday, throwing out the ceremonial first pitch before his club’s last game of the baseball season.

THERE’S no escape from the crushing heat of the post-midday sun in Flushing Meadows but its patrons are carrying on regardless.

Americans gathered in jubilant crowds to cheer, sing and applaud early today after their president announced that Osama bin Laden was dead.

Americans gathered in jubilant crowds to cheer, sing and applaud early today after their president announced that Osama bin Laden was dead.

THE WIND blowing through Queens is wreaking havoc for the New York Mets fans at the concession stands behind centre-field.

WHEN Casey Stengel was fired by the New York Yankees just days after Bill Mazeroski’s game-winning home run secured a dramatic 1961 World Series for the Pittsburgh Pirates, the legendary manager was informed he was too old to continue in the post.

Lady Gaga’s boyfriend Luc Carl dumped his girlfriend to get back together with the pop star.

IT MAY have come to your attention that there is a Heineken Cup semi-final tomorrow.

A US judge has thrown a lifeline to investors who may have been duped in one of Wall Street’s biggest alleged frauds.

The list of investors who say they were duped in one of Wall Street's biggest pyramid schemes is growing, snaring some of the world's biggest banking institutions and hedge funds, the super rich and the famous, pensioners and charities.

Billy Joel will become the last artist to perform at New York's Shea Stadium after announcing a summer show at the home of baseball team the New York Mets.

Baseball star Roger Clemens denied allegations he ever used performance-enhancing drugs after the legendary pitcher was named in the Mitchell report, a 20-month investigation into their use in Major League Baseball.

THE Thomond Park naming rights deal could net Munster rugby in the region of €500,000 per annum for the next ten to 15 years according to a top sponsorship executive.

ON THE mound, Cory Lidle lived on the edge. Off the field, he was the same way.