USA: About 50 people volunteered to carefully grill a 100ft bratwurst without burning or breaking it at a bar in Illinois.

PERHAPS a place in the final was more than Nenagh Ormond anticipated a few weeks ago, but Saturday’s last gasp defeat by Queens University in the AIB Division Three final at Anglesea Road was a bitter pill to swallow nonetheless.

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.

Justin Timberlake is hoping to meet the members of a US minor league baseball team - to pick up tips for his upcoming role as a baseball player.

TWO South Florida teenagers are facing a murder charge after a surveillance camera captured a homeless man being chased and beaten.