“The achievements of an organisation are the results of the combined effort of each individual... Individual commitment to a group effort— that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilisation work.” —Vince Lombardi

The rapidly approaching Rugby World Cup is causing media outlets everywhere to break out in supplements and previews — I can only hope you made the effort to collect last Friday’s newspaper, which had the pick of those supplements accompanying it.

It’s almost a year now since this column fulfilled a near life-long sporting ambition with a trip to Chicago to see the Bears host the Green Bay Packers at the iconic Soldier Field.

For over a decade, the rap superstar Kanye West has written music that pushes boundaries, courts controversy and divides critics. Now, having compared himself to Jesus and Steve Jobs, he wants to design clothes for the masses, says Jon Caramanica.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Another weekend of bumper fare for the Six Nations.

If the Vegas oddsmakers are to be believed, there is no separating New England and Seattle.

The NFL loves it when a good plan comes together. Or so it must seem for the poor Detroit Lions, whose play-off demise on Sunday was sparked by a highly-questionable refereeing decision.

After all the months hearing about them, reading about them and buying them, finally, over the last few days, we’re guessing you got round to actually reading some sports books.

Hippocrates said sport was the preserver of health, writes Brendan O'Brien.

The signs are up around Times Square again: the NFL Draft is upon us and, tomorrow night, New York City will be invaded by football players whose suits are as sharp as their eyes are dull.

A certain symmetry. The man who went before — Big Ron — met Alex Ferguson in autumn of 1986 and found him strangely distant. Soon after, the rumours Ron had heard proved correct.

What an incredible time for Munster, the fruits of Rob Penny’s plans. Not alone did his team produce the try of the round but they also secured the signatures of two ‘leaders’ and potentially a number 8 of real quality for next season.

Psychiatrist to make calls on match ‘fitness’

2012 may be remembered as the year in which the glass ceiling was shattered for those considered second tier counties in the Gaelic football world.

John Travolta is lining up a role in a remake of John Woo's 'The Killer'.

Andre Carter is quickest to his feet. He walks away from Peyton Manning’s carcass, his shoulders hunched, his fists clenched, his angry eyes darting side-to-side. Job done.

A YEAR ago last weekend, tremors of excitement reverberated through America’s midwest.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice and Fintan O’Toole argue both sides of the debate

PULSELESS and saurian have been my adjectives of choice for the last few days, having come across them somewhere or other the weekend before last.

ONLY OLD floodlights can make that sudden clunking sound, like an old, rickety lever being pulled down to spark the countless bulbs to life.

Six years ago, Eamonn Fitzmaurice was given the role of shackling Mayo playmaker Kieran McDonald in an All-Ireland final. On Sunday, a Cork defender will be handed a similar critical assignment – marking Marty Clarke. The Kerryman offers some vital clues

Plane crash investigators will today attempt to recover the wreckage of a passenger jet that plummeted into New York’s Hudson River, miraculously leaving no-one seriously hurt.

The pilot who miraculously landed a plane on New York’s Hudson River without any loss of life was today coming to terms with his new-found hero status.

IT WAS one of Steve McClaren’s coaching heroes, gridiron legend Vince Lombardi, who coined the phrase: “Winning is not everything, it is the only thing.”

WHEN Vince Lombardi was strutting his stuff as the most successful coach in American football history he gave the sports world some of its pithiest phrases.

DISCOVER the joys of reading and help a good cause - that’s the message to boys and girls at the start of MS Readathon 2005.

EACH year in Green Bay hundreds of new Packers fans are born. They are carried home from hospital wrapped in green and gold NFL Packers blankets, sucking happily on Packers soothers and fed from Packers baby bottles.