It is a sad day for golf when Tiger Woods is relegated to serving as an assistant captain at the Presidents Cup. Cart driver? Asking players if they like mayo or mustard on their sandwich? Say it ain’t so, Tiger. Say it ain’t so.

Team New Zealand capsized during the run-in to the second race of their America's Cup challenger semi-finals against Britain's Land Rover BAR in Bermuda, with all crew members later reported safe.

Jim Furyk was last night named as the United States captain for the 2018 Ryder Cup in France and immediately confirmed 2016 skipper Davis Love III will serve as one of his vice-captains.

No Stephen Curry? No LeBron James? No problem. Despite missing the game’s two best players, the US men’s basketball team are still the slam dunk favorite to return home from the Rio Olympics with the gold medal.

Davis Love III has named Tiger Woods, Jim Furyk and Steve Stricker as three of Team USA’s vice-captains for next year’s Ryder Cup in Minnesota.

Cormac Sharvin will go into this week’s Irish Amateur Open Championship full of confidence after claiming a top-five finish at the prestigious Lytham Trophy over the weekend.

Rory McIlroy and his European teammates are bracing themselves for the mother all warnings against complacency from captain Paul McGinley ahead of tomorrow's pivotal Ryder Cup singles matches.

Updates from Day 2 of the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles.

It has not been a great summer for American golfers, what with Tiger Woods’ back troubles, Dustin Johnson’s ‘leave of absence’ and a European surge up the world rankings.

Summertime settled into Wall Street yesterday as major stock indexes drifted slightly higher going into the weekend.

The perception that male ice skaters are gay — and the hostility behind it — is the sport’s dirty little secret, writes Abigail Jones

In this miserable stretch of Ryder Cups for America, there has been a threesome of common denominators: Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk.

Jason Dufner has spent his entire career not getting excited and he does not see why that should change, now he’s made a Ryder Cup team.

Any athlete complaining of a minor injury during the London Olympics had their troubles put firmly in perspective today after it was confirmed that American Manteo Mitchell ran on a broken leg.

If you waited until evening and hurdled past the spoiler alerts on news and sports channels, you’d have had to wait until after 11pm to see Bolt make history

US First Lady Michelle Obama today gave her own personal good luck message to Team USA ahead of tonight’s opening ceremony for the Olympics.

Even President Barack Obama took time out of his busy re-election campaign to wade into last week’s debate-du-jour.

ONE look along the line of dejected faces sitting reluctantly before the media last night at Celtic Manor told you everything you needed to know about how deeply this American team cared about the Ryder Cup.

MAKE of them what you like, but you simply can’t ignore those amazing Irish golfing buddies Graeme (G-Mac) McDowell and Rory (Wee-Mac) McIlroy.

WAS it just an illusion or did it used to be on the golf course that time stood still while the rest of life rushed headlong towards the lunatic asylum?

Ian Poulter’s million followers on Twitter will have to make do without his many thoughts on the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor this week, with all 24 players having been told to focus on the match instead.

COREY PAVIN yesterday handed Tiger Woods the chance to go into the Ryder Cup record books – as the American with more defeats than any other.

ADAM CARROLL is convinced he can be a Formula One title contender if given a chance. Carroll recently confirmed being approached by two F1 teams with regard the possibility of a race seat for 2010.

Ireland recorded an 8-2 win over Team USA at the Arch Centre in Athy tonight.

RYDER CUP veteran Jim Furyk paid tribute to the six rookies that drove the American team to a resounding victory in Kentucky.

United States' men's basketball team claimed gold today, after being challenged all the way by Spain in a scintillating 118-107 game.

THE contrast between American and Jamaican sprinting was demonstrated again in the 4x100m relays, where the US team dropped the baton in both the men’s and women’s races.

In what could be the sport's final appearance at the Olympic Games, the United States baseball team received an unexpected setback in their opening contest of the 2008 Games.

The United States men’s indoor volleyball team won a dramatic match with a heavy heart on Sunday.

Thousands are expected in north Wicklow over the next two days for the opening weekend of one of the country’s biggest beach festivals.

Sheryl Crow and Nelly have been named unofficial motivators of the USA Olympics team.

Former Formula One driver Narain Karthikeyan held off New Zealand’s Jonny Reid to claim India’s maiden A1GP World Cup of Motorsport victory in the feature race in China.

Tyson Gay picked up a third gold medal and Team USA continued to dominate in sprinting events by winning the 4x100 metres relay at the World Championships in Osaka tonight.

Kenya-born Bernard Lagat won a fifth World Championship gold medal for Team USA in Osaka and then proclaimed: “I feel very special.”

SUPPORT isn’t how you say it but how you show it, and at the Ryder Cup the fans were going all out to wear their golfing hearts on their sleeves.