Few rugby players can simply be identified by their first names. Gareth, Sonny Bill, Zinzan, Jonny, and Jonah are some of the few whose deeds and skills have given them that particular status. And Joost.

TONY WATENE’S love affair with Gaelic Games began in an unconventional fashion.

THE modest aspirations of Ireland’s show jumpers were realised to some extent yesterday when they placed equal fifth in the Samsung Super League Nations Cup in St Gallen, Switzerland.

New Zealander Michael Campbell will be looking to join a very select band of men when he tees off in the Heineken Classic at Royal Melbourne tomorrow.