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.

The great and the good had been queuing up all week to predict an England win at Twickenham on Saturday night, among them three captains from World Cups long gone, writes Peter Jackson.

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?

Galway 2-28 Cork 0-22: A second championship double-digit exit for Cork’s hurlers should prompt the most exhaustive of autopsies.

When he wasn’t busy scribbling out the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein seems to have spent a fair amount of time writing letters involving topics such as God, his son’s geometry studies, even a little toy steam engine an uncle gave him when he was a boy.

In among the rubble and whirlwind of hot and bothered sports talk radio that blitzed through Monday evening’s rush hour, one bit of perspective on the heavy sanctioning of Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady rang true.

 

Katrina Brooker meets the tech investors with the Midas touch

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

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.

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

New Year’s Day. Mount Corbitt, Churchtown, Mallow, Co Cork.

If you’re knee deep in the Netflix series House of Cards like me and Barack Obama, then you’ll know the office of the Vice President of the United States of America has rarely enjoyed a more glamorous or salacious depiction of its daily agenda.

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.

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.

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.

As the cooler weather set in around the northern states of the US this month, the question arose once again: why oh why does the baseball season extend into October?

He’s now, if not fitter, richer and happier than when he played.

THE Texas Rangers can wrap up their first ever World Series in St Louis tonight unless the hosting Cardinalsrediscover their hitting form in front of their own fans at Busch Stadium (ESPN America, 00.30am).

TY COBB, part pioneer and part embarrassing stain on the long history of baseball, could teach Andy Gray and Richard Keys a thing or two about seething intolerance.

Liverpool fans may be wary of another American owner, but in John W Henry they have a very different breed to Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

AMERICAN sport can offer an experienced perspective on the issue of compulsory helmet wear, their mandatory use having come into effect for hurlers this season.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen presented a collection of Jack Lynch memorabilia to the people of Cork yesterday.

YANKEE STADIUM, which closed last Saturday night, opened for business on April 18, 1923 with a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.

DAVID Beckham may be the world’s best-known athlete, but to a lot of people in Carson he’s going to need an introduction.

San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds finally joined American sports legend Babe Ruth in the history books by smashing his 714th career home run in the Giants’ game at the Oakland A’s.

Two finals, three semi-finals and an awful lot of heartache; the near misses are scratched into the soul of every Munster supporter. Yet a dip into the sporting archives reveals that those who follow the advice of ancient Scottish king Robert The Bruce, to try, try and try again if at first they do not succeed, are very often rewarded. Eventually. SIMON LEWIS investigates.

A PAINTING by Marilyn Monroe has been auctioned off with her personal phone book with numbers for Frank Sinatra, Jack Benny and scores of other celebrities for over $150,000 (€123,000) in Los Angeles.

THE volume of early voting has taken all the parties by surprise.

The body of Superman star Christopher Reeve has been cremated during a private service, it was reported today.