Kerry star Kieran Donaghy gives a deep insight into his successful career in the new series of Laochra Gael, which begins next week.

Sunday evening began at 5pm when the Detroit Pistons played a thrilling match against the Denver Nuggets.

Because of what was happening out in Tallaght over the weekend, this piece was always likely to be about basketball, and then a certain event in California last Sunday confirmed it could be about nothing else.

I see that last week former NBA Commissioner David Stern died suddenly.

Rory McIlroy is by a distance the Irish sportsperson of the decade, writes Kieran Shannon.

It seems an unlikely crossover to link iconic Irish writer Samuel Beckett with the business practices of 2019, but commerce has often taken inspiration from unusual sources.

While football has rarely before had a decade like this one where two players have been streets out on their own, basketball during the same period hasn’t even had such a contest.

Masters week is a time for the stars of golf to shine. But for some, the real fun begins after dark.

US sportswear maker Nike has been hit with a €12.5m fine for blocking cross-border sales of soccer merchandise of some of Europe’s best-known clubs, the latest EU sanction against such restrictions.

The original movie, which featured legend Michael Jordan, was released in 1996.

I mentioned Netflix last week but I promise I lead a real life as well, one in which I get out and talk to human beings and have White Russians in Cask (and those are nice).

To watch LeBron James play basketball is to witness the qualities that distinguish the truly great player in every sport.

The only statline James’s critics were interested in was that he was now three from eight in the NBA finals, in contrast to Michael Jordan’s flawless six for six record.

It is hard to convey to the uninitiated the enormity of loss experienced by Killarney, Irish basketball and even as loud and wide a city as his adopted home of Las Vegas with the passing of the life-force that was Paudie O’Connor.

Watching Didi Hamann and the RTÉ football panel in recent weeks question Pep Guardiola’s standing as a coach for remaining stuck on just the two Champions League titles in a career that’s barely a decade old, we were reminded of the opening scene in March to Madness, the esteemed John Feinstein’s season-long study of about the only championship in world team sport that’s as hard to win as football’s famous cup with the big ears.

Gerald Kennedy played high school hoops with Michael Jordan, he played Division One college ball in the States, he showed a young Steph Curry a few tricks. But he came to Ireland and never left. In the week of a remarkable Super League denouement, he is remembered for Ireland’s greatest basketball climax — the 74-foot buzzer-beater that won Neptune the title in 1988. But he’d like if you remembered him for a little bit more.

There is no other team sport that is more reliant on one position consistently throughout a contest as a gridiron team is on its quarterback writes Kieran Shannon.

Gods make their own importance

Can LeBron James lift a fourth NBA title and be compared to Michael Jordan as the sport’s GOAT, or will he lose in the finals for the sixth time? asks Kieran Shannon

I was recently approached by Always to be part of the Irish team for their #LikeAGirl campaign, writes Louise O’Neill. 

Jordan Spieth is not your traditional game-changer, but what he’s doing may turn out to be the saviour of golf, writes Dr Ed Coughlan.

If nothing else, the 146th Open Championship will go down as the major of the meaningful caddie intervention.

It is to O’Shea’s immense credit that in the face of constant provocation he has not succumbed to being a reactor, says Kieran Shannon

Al Pacino’s “Inches” speech in Any Given Sunday may make the hairs stand on the back of your neck, says Dr Ed Coughlan. But does it work? Consistently? And if so, for how long? Or is it just for effect?

If the media drives sport and most of the money generated comes from TV broadcasting rights then it’s hardly surprising that professional sport worldwide has always been a star-driven enterprise dominated by the world’s greatest athletes.

One victory left for the Golden State Warriors to claim another title. Not the one as NBA champions. The one as the best team ever.

Pep Guardiola claims Manchester City are the Premier League's best team from box to box, but insists they must sharpen up at either end of the pitch next season.

For 15 years Colm Cooper represented everything that we love about traditional Kerry football. Our game will be a poorer one for his absence, writes Mike Quirke

Willie Mullins has been second in the Cheltenham Gold Cup six times, writes Brendan O’Brien