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.

American milk cartons often feature pleas for information about tragic cases of child abduction — mysterious tales of disappearances that would soften even the hardest of hearts.

FROM elation to frustration.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON insists the Irish Open is still his “fifth major” and Graeme McDowell stresses it is “on my golfing bucket list” but Rory McIlroy doesn’t seem quite so sure.

IF YOU were an employer seeking to fill a job vacancy and you happened on James D Wolfensohn’s curriculum vitae, chances are you’d offer him the post on the spot.