Des O’Sullivan previews an event set to bring plenty of Hollywood glamour to Newbridge, Co Kildare.

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.

Gerard Pique’s focus as his team took a valuable 1-0 advantage in Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final first leg at Manchester United was particularly impressive, given the many potential distractions inside the Barcelona defender’s head.

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.

So how much money would you be willing to give up for the pleasure of hitting somebody?

Tralee start-up is using 3D manufacturing to make home decor for retailing giant Ikea, writes Trish Dromey

It didn’t take the hurlers of Dublin, Tipperary, Clare and Galway long to discover Boston’s list of priorities last Friday when they landed for the Fenway Classic Super 11s.

New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill said: "We do understand that no city or town in this country is completely immune to such unbridled hatred."

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

Here Majella O’Sullivan takes a look at some of the most common conditions named after those who discovered them and the people whose names they bear.

Trump could do with some help from a major sports star these days, writes Kieran Shannon

Brendan O’Brien reveals how Donald Trump could affect sport in the US over the next four years.

In the yellow taxi - literally - from JFK when the text comes through.

A full house of 30,000 will watch Galway play Dublin in Boston in Super 11 hurling. It provides a platform to present hurling to larger audiences, writes Donal Óg Cusack from Boston.

A fan died after falling from the upper deck into the lower-level stands at Turner Field on Saturday night during a game between the Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees.

What has Phil Mickelson at Winged Foot, the Boston Red Sox in 1978 and Jean van de Velde at the 1999 British Open got in common with this Dublin team?

While rumination on the efficacy of curses is no longer regarded as cutting edge analysis, slightly more respectable is the idea Mayo are labouring under some fatal psychological flaw that is continually preventing them from reaching the mountain top. What else explains seven successive All-Ireland defeats?

Rory McIlroy’s participation at next week’s Open Championship looks to be in grave doubt after the world number one suffered a freak injury.

Tottenham midfielder Paulinho has joined Guangzhou Evergrande on a four-year deal, the Chinese Super League side have announced.

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.

Manchester City's deal to keep Frank Lampard until the end of the season has been condemned by supporters of New York City FC, their sister club in Major League Soccer who must now wait until mid-season to see their marquee signing.

Tomorrow is Pele’s birthday — or maybe it was yesterday. Depends on where you fact check.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that Hamas and the Islamic State group (IS) are “branches of the same poisonous tree,” both bent on world domination through terror, just as the Nazis were.

Before it gets grim around here, allow me to get a little sentimental.

Famously acerbic comedian Chris Rock may have a razor sharp tongue, but he showed he’s a softie at heart at a baseball game at the Yankee stadium.

This baseball fan is suing ESPN and Major League Baseball after falling asleep at a game.

On Friday, when the fireworks pop and the hotdogs sizzle for the annual celebration of Independence Day in the United States, New York Yankees fans will have another impossibly sentimental reason to hark back on past Fourth of Julys.

Kate Hudson doesn't feel sorry for her ex-boyfriends Lance Armstrong and Alex Rodriguez.

That’s what you call a statement of intent; New York City FC signing striker David Villa on Monday was an impactful moment.

Manchester City have expanded their growing global portfolio by announcing the purchase of a minority stake in Japanese J-League club Yokohama F Marinos.

The controversy about racist comments from Donald Sterling, owner of the LA Clippers NBA team, is bubbling along in the US.

“It’s very… American, isn’t it?” Baseball is a cornerstone of Americana that has helped me get past that attitude.

David Beckham has admitted he finds it impossible to hold a grudge against Alex Ferguson.

David Beckham has selected Miami as the city where he intends to set up a Major League Soccer franchise, it is understood.

Forever burned into my memory from the New York Jets game this past Sunday will be my good friend Rob Gallo leaning back at an almost impossible angle, silent joy gripping his face, his eyes wide, his happiness complete.

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.

It’s only getting seedier in the Alex Rodriguez saga that has baseball tearing itself to pieces.

New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, the highest paid player in baseball, has been banned for 211 games, starting on Thursday and covering the remainder of this season and all of next, for violations of Major League Baseball’s joint drug prevention and treatment programme and its basic agreement.

Baseball’s All-Star game is a little bit of a sham — more of a mid-season jolly for the players and league executives than a serious measure of how the game’s best proponents measure up against each other.