So, sports fans are outraged that Jermaine Defoe is missing from the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award shortlist? (According to click king Mr Google Analytics). Wait til they see this evening what the chainsaw gang in Montrose have done to the array of Ireland’s Greatest Sporting Moments in the 2000s, writes Tony Leen.

Seven years have passed since Tyrone last defeated Kerry. It came by a point in Omagh in late March, the visitors having assembled a five-point lead by the 55th minute only to be sucker-punched by Colm Cavanagh’s last gasp goal.

Sligo 0-14 Tyrone 0-21

Could your county board do with an extra €5m? Would your county board like this €5m to come in the form of one of those great Fifa loans that don’t actually have to be paid back?

Thank God for the Ulster Championship! High intensity warfare packed with so many off-the-ball incidents that no amount of cameramen, never mind referees and officials, could possibly identify the culprits.

Much has been made of Tyrone’s inability to match Donegal’s physicality, but Conor Gormley does not expect his former team-mates to be bullied in Ballybofey on Sunday.

Tyrone football legend Peter Canavan has dismissed suggestions that the curtain will fall on the Mickey Harte era if Tyrone suffer a fourth consecutive Ulster championship defeat to Donegal on Sunday.

Art is born of humiliation. [W.H. Auden]

The GAA hope to plug one of the biggest loopholes in their disciplinary system at next week’s Congress. 

Last January’s list of players to shine in the year ahead featured Kerry’s Paul Murphy, who would be man of the match in the All-Ireland SFC final. So, no pressure then on these bright young things...

Tyrone footballer Conor Gormley has announced his retirement from inter-county football.

Tyrone great Conor Gormley believes the time is right to end his inter-county career.

Ciarán McGinley will not play for Tyrone in 2015.

Tyrone legend Stephen O’Neill last night confirmed his retirement from inter-county football. Martin Penrose has also brought the curtain down on his career with the Red Hands.

Tyrone defender Barry Tierney has revealed he was taken aback by the fierce criticism he endured after a three-goal mauling by Kerry star James O’Donoghue.

Omagh/St Enda’s 1-10 Carrickmore 0-12

MY brother Brian was corner back for the Galway minors in 1986 when they beat Cork in the All-Ireland final. Later that afternoon Kerry beat Tyrone in the senior game. Brian is 45 now and in the intervening 28 years Kerry have since failed to defeat an Ulster team in an All-Ireland senior final.

Carrickmore scraped past Augher to avoid a shock in the Hunky Dorys Tyrone SFC at Dunmoyle (0-10 to 0-8).

Tyrone 0-10 Armagh 0-13

ALL-IRELAND SFC ROUND 2B:

Seán Cavanagh believes Tyrone is one of the few counties that can challenge Dublin’s strength in depth.

Worrying times for followers of football in the province.

Down 0-12 Tyrone 3-11

Down 0-12 Tyrone 3-11

Cork 2-14 Tyrone 0-20

Maybe he wouldn’t still be playing for Tyrone now.

Clonoe 3-08 Carrickmore 0-12

2013 All-Ireland SFC winning captain Stephen Cluxton and 11 of his Dublin team-mates have been nominated for GAA/GPA Football All-Stars awards.

Tyrone champions Errigal Ciarán made it through to the Hunky Dorys SFC second round at the second attempt, defeating Dromore 1-13 to 1-9 in a thrilling replay at Dromore.

Sunday might yet have marked his last time in a Tyrone jersey but goalkeeper Pascal McConnell as well as fellow veteran Seán Cavanagh are convinced there are bigger days ahead for the team.

Cillian O’Connor is all but certain to miss Mayo’s All-Ireland final on September 22 after being forced off with an injury to his already suspect right shoulder yesterday.

Match, mismatch.

Not all defeats taste the same.

Tyrone's Sean Cavanagh was left ruing the scoring blitz by Mayo at the start of the second half which turned today's All-Ireland SFC semi-final in their favour.

It’s 2001 and Carrickmore are out on St Colmcille’s Park about to train ahead of their county final replay against Errigal Ciarán.

ALL-IRELAND SFC SEMI-FINAL:

Defender Ryan McKenna and forward Connor McAliskey has been brought into the Tyrone team for Sunday's All-Ireland SFC semi-final against Mayo at Croke Park (throw-in 3.30pm).

Tyrone feel they’ve been getting a hard time of it of late. That Sean Cavanagh has been singled out for some harsh treatment.

Stephen O’Neill claims Tyrone have been cast as a “cynical, dirty team” and that referee Maurice Deegan could be influenced by such commentary this weekend.

The one-match suspension for Tyrone's Martin Penrose still stands after his request for an appeal hearing was not submitted within the specified period.

Defender Conor Gormley will be available to play for Tyrone in Sunday week's All-Ireland SFC semi-final against Mayo after having his one-match overturned tonight.