Few celebrities have captured the public imagination in quite the same manner as OJ Simpson.

Cardiff boosted their chances of a top-six finish in the Guinness PRO12 with a barely-deserved 18-17 win over Edinburgh in an error-strewn game.

Paul Rouse takes a look at the evolution of Gaelic football.

Longford 4-10 Antrim 1-12: A second half goal glut sealed a first TG4 All-Ireland Ladies JFC title since 1997 for Longford at Croke Park.

A second-half goal glut sealed a first TG4 All-Ireland junior ladies football title since 1997 for Michael Bohan’s Longford at Croke Park this afternoon.

Captain fantastic Dymphna O’Brien inspired Limerick to Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 4 glory in Clane today.

Edinburgh 23 Connacht 28: Connacht survived a huge examination from Edinburgh in Murrayfield last evening to stay top of the Guinness Pro 12 with their fifth win on the trot.

One person was killed and another 30 were injured when a woman intentionally swerved her car on to a busy pavement on the Las Vegas Strip, mowing down pedestrians.

A US investment fund that bought Nama’s assets in the North for in excess of £1bn will not appear before a Stormont inquiry investigating the controversial sale.

Edinburgh 16 Leinster 9: Leinster’s hopes of opening their Guinness Pro12 season with a victory were shattered last night by an Edinburgh side that showed more flair with ball in hand and which had a more aggressive back row.

Edinburgh 23 Leinster 36

Guiness Pro12

Guinness Pro12

Think of a famous inventor and more likely than not it is a man. Robert Hume looks at six items we take for granted today which were all invented by women

Motorsport: A strong performance over the first run of the stage paved the way for Lisburn’s Wesley Patterson (Ford Escort) and his co-driver Johnny Baird to claim victory in the Cloyne-based AceSigns-sponsored Imokilly Single Stage Rally.

Frankie Dettori will make his eagerly-anticipated return to the saddle at Epsom today after being cleared to return from his six-month suspension.

Ballynahinch sealed the Division 1B title and a place in the top flight of the Ulster Bank League for the first time with a 41-8 victory over Buccaneers at Ballymacarn Park this afternoon.

A cystic fibrosis sufferer has been excluded from his local GP surgery in Wales after posting an “offensive tweet” about staff.

Ulster 29 Treviso 29

Ireland duo Andrew Trimble and Paul Marshall have been included in the Ulster line up to play Treviso at the Stadio Monigo on Friday (6.05pm).

Zebre 25 Ulster 27

Ulster Ravens 17 Munster A 19

Ulster 24 Newcastle Falcons 20

The sun shone brightly on a smattering of young Ulster stars as they held a full-strength Leicester Tigers side in a pre-season slog at Ravenhill on Saturday.

Brian McLaughlin has made 10 changes to the Ulster XV for Saturday’s RaboDirect PRO12 clash with Munster at Thomond Park (kick off 7.30pm).

By stunning Ballymena with a late winning try, Belfast Harlequins inched ever closer to being crowned Division 1B champions and winning promotion to Division 1A.

Ulster kept themselves in the race for the RaboDirect Pro12 play-offs by chalking up their fifth win from their last six league games against an under-strength Edinburgh outfit.

Ulster 38 Edinburgh 16

The two clubs at the bottom of the Division 1B table provided a rousing contest at Kilballyowen Park before Bruff emerged as 22-18 winners over a determined UCC side.

A FORENSIC psychologist yesterday testified that jailed Texas financier R Allen Stanford is mentally stable and competent to be tried next month on charges he deceived investors out of $7 billion (€5.3bn) in a massive Ponzi scheme.

Today’s Division 1B clash at Annacotty was plodding along in a somewhat tedious manner until a three-try blitz in a seven-minute spell pushed Ballymena out of sight and on their way to a 30-13 success.

Connections of Danedream will study the likely opposition before deciding whether to supplement the progressive three-year-old filly for the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Sunday.

WITH victory in the opening two rounds of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship, Cork driver Owen Murphy aims to continue the trend in Sunday’s third round, the Lismore-based Munster Moonraker Forest Rally.

A BUSINESSMAN and prominent auctioneer yesterday told a court he had been “grossly injured” by false reports that he was being pursued by Anglo Irish Bank for debts of€1.49 million.

Frankie Dettori has decided to appeal against the four-day suspension he picked up at Salisbury on Thursday.

Ireland U-20s 39 Scotland U-20s 12

England U20 43 Ireland U20 14

England 43 Ireland 14

IT’S a very social club, is Bruff RFC, and that was much in evidence at last Saturday’s vital AIL division 3 match against promotion rivals Queens University, from Belfast.