Fifty years after Martin Luther King was assassinated, new museums and memorials are highlighting the civil rights movement, writes Isabel Conway, as she travels from Tennessee to Mississippi.

Then there were two. As Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus performed their duties as honorary starters at the 81st Masters yesterday morning, an empty lawn chair was on the tee box with them that the previous year had been filled by their great friend Arnold Palmer.

Contrived in so many ways, “The Big Three” was a phrase that clearly caught on with golf journalists nearly a half-century ago. The fact it encompassed the three most popular golfers at the time — Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player — made it an easy embrace for both writers and fans.

A golf cart driving onto the practice range and parking behind players to watch them swing isn’t typically met with this kind of enthusiasm.

The King, a man of sound judgement and good English, was once chosen by fellow islanders to oversee major fishing expeditions, settle disputes and even offer marital advice, says Ailin Quinlan

"You made the best of yourself" was Brian Cody’s glowing tribute to Henry Shefflin when the player informed his manager of his decision to retire on Monday.

Four-time Augusta National champion Arnold Palmer confidently expects to be welcoming Rory McIlroy to next year’s Masters Champions dinner.

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As well as "the bubblegum-style sixties fun of the show," Hairspray, the musical, has a strong anti-racist message, says director, Joseph Walsh, who is delighted to be working on the show for the Cork Opera House. The Boston native directed The King and I at the Cork Opera House seven years ago

There were just a handful of us in the lift coming down from the press box in the Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo last week when the doors opened and in walked... ‘O Fenomeno,’ I heard myself involuntarily mutter under my breath.

Pele, the footballer, the man the world calls The King still lords it but has a mixed legacy in his own country

Kilkenny 3-22 Galway 5-16

A lock of Elvis Presley’s hair could be available for a snip as it is set to go under the hammer.

A lock of Elvis Presley’s hair could be available for a snip as it is set to go under the hammer.

Robert Downey Jr. has been named the Most Valuable Star of 2013.

The original recording of Elvis Presley’s first radio hit could leave collectors all shook up when it goes under the hammer in Dublin this month.

The King’s briefs are to go on sale at an auction of Elvis Presley pop memorabilia.

As another second Sunday in April transformed from warmth to cool, and majestic Georgia pines cast sprawling shadows, “Masters roars” crescendoed from one corner of Augusta National to the other and the thought occurred: will they ever again ring out for Tiger Woods?

Leave it to the barons who oversee a golf tournament that seemingly makes time stand still to orchestrate things so that an icon from 50 years ago would outdrive by a few yards today’s most heralded name.

Julia Roberts has a blast as the pantomime villainess in ‘Mirror Mirror’, a comedic reworking of the classic fairy tale ‘Snow White’ by the Brothers Grimm.

Rising star Megan Connolly struck a hat-trick yesterday at Tallaght Stadium to help Cork’s Christ the King secure the Umbro FAI Schools Senior Girls All-Ireland Cup for the second time in three years.

Holders Moville CC retained the FAI Schools Junior Girls All-Ireland crown despite Christ The King Girls’ efforts at the Oscar Traynor Centre in Coolock yesterday.

The King is dead, long live the king. That was how Ken Bates, Chelsea’s controversial former chairman, greeted the arrival of Ruud Gullit as manager when Glenn Hoddle left to take over the England team nearly 15 years ago.

FAMOUS Name is Munich bound on Sunday week in search of an elusive Group 1 success following another workmanlike victory in the Group 3 Jockey Club Of Turkey Meld Stakes at Leopardstown.

JIM BOLGER has a useful team of juveniles this season and he introduced another smart one in the shape of Somasach to land the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Tipperary last night.

An American man refused to pay for cigarettes because he said he was royalty.

THE performances of Roderic O’Connor and Glor Na Mara, in last Saturday’s Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket, showed that the Irish juveniles are at least on a par with their English counterparts, with the exception of Frankel.

SO NOW the penny is beginning to drop. From the start, this season had ‘CONSOLIDATION’ branded into its wrinkled flesh and we’ve seen little to change that perception.

Sir Tom Jones was serenaded in the shower by Elvis Presley.

ELVIS PRESLEY, the King of bacon, banana and peanut butter sandwiches, didn’t die of a heart condition. He succumbed, on the toilet, to chronic constipation.

THE Aintree Grand National reminds me of JFK or Elvis. People remember where they were when they heard that the American president had been shot dead in Dallas in 1963. It’s the same with the news that The King had passed away 14 years later.

MEXICAN police have arrested a suspected top supplier of heroin to the United States, known as “The King of Heroin,” security officials said yesterday.

Eminem is back at his best in his comeback video 'We Made You', spoofing rocker-turned-reality TV star Bret Michaels, Star Trek's Mr Spock, John Mayer, Elvis and even Amy Winehouse's estranged husband Blake Fielder-Civil.

A bit of opportunism paid off for Serena Brotherton as she landed the winning ride on Aypeeyes in the Bathwick Tyres Ladies Derby Handicap at Newbury.

Elvis Presley is set for a return to the charts, thanks to a series of festive duets with country music's biggest divas.

Elvis Presley made a secret visit to England 50 years ago, it has emerged.

There is no-one better qualified to assess this season’s Champion Chase than Guillaume Macaire.

A date has been set for an auction of Elvis Presley memorabilia which was confiscated from a thief in England, it was announced today.