High profile coaching casualties followed quick on the heels of the final day of the NFL’s regular season as the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Jets parted ways with their coaches yesterday.

Former BBC Radio 1 breakfast show DJ Mike Smith has died aged 59.

The rescue of hundreds of people stranded by epic mountain flooding in Colorado has been stepped up as food and water supplies run low.

The long-awaited Harbaugh Bowl is suddenly a reality in the NFL.

Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another will bid to confirm the Classic form as he clashes again with Bodemeister in tonight’s Preakness Stakes at Pimlico.

Mike Smith pulled off an emotional success as Drosselmeyer claimed the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs in an epic finish last night.

Amazombie produced a strong late run to land the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs.

American jockey Mike Smith has been forced to give up his rides at Lingfield on Tuesday due to the conditions of his visa.

American wonder mare Zenyatta stretched her unbeaten record to 16 with another imperious display in the Apple Blossom Invitational Stakes at Oaklawn Park.

Zenyatta created history by becoming the first mare to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic at an emotion-charged Santa Anita.

Social housing projects are to get a £20m (€23.1m) boost as part of a reshuffle of Stormont funds announced today by Finance Minister Sammy Wilson.

British Horseracing Authority chief executive Nic Coward is one of number of racing-related figures to be appointed to a British government panel on sports betting integrity.

A Mountjoy prisoner accused of murdering his cellmate told detectives he killed him with “three digs, three kicks and a stamping” before rubbing excrement in his face.

Forecasters warned today that the cooler, damper conditions that helped efforts to fight a massive wildfire in Southern California would soon turn hot and dry.

YOU might have noticed that a pop star of yesteryear died the other day.

Suspected Taliban militants ambushed a Nato convoy in southern Afghanistan today, and a gunshot victim said soldiers fleeing the scene shot him and killed a man in a bakery.

Kieren Fallon has given up his mounts today after being taken ill in America on Saturday.

Giacomo became the second-longest priced winner of the Kentucky Derby when flying late to capture the prestigious race at Churchill Downs on Saturday night.

Leisure group Rank prepared today to bring the curtain down on a 60-year relationship with the film industry by announcing the separation of its Deluxe unit.

THE chairman of Northern Ireland’s Policing Board yesterday resigned from the board of a Dublin-owned property company to distance himself from the garda probe into alleged IRA money laundering.

Has Fred Durst lost touch with reality?

Azeri turned in an impressive performance to take Saturday’s Grade One Milady Breeders’ Cup Handicap at Hollywood Park.

"I have a sense it's a horrendous number of lives lost." -- New York City