SEAMUS POWER has been named as a reserve on the senior men’s team for the European cross-country championships but said last evening that he won’t be going.

A FORMER college student charged with hacking Sarah Palin’s email account fears some jurors in heavily Republican East Tennessee could be dazzled when the conservative star testifies.

GARETH SHAW is destined to bow out from collegiate golf with the coveted status of an All-American after reaching the final round of the 111th Men’s NCAA Division I Championships in West Lafayette, Indiana.

There was disappointment all round for Ireland's trio of golfers at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Regional Championships this week, despite some good individual performances.

Niall Turner led home a strong Irish contingent at this week’s Puerto Rico Collegiate Classic.

Carlow sisters Tara and Karen Delaney tee it up next week for the first time in 2007 as Kent State University begins its bid for a return to the US collegiate national finals, the NCAA Championships.

BRAY’S Keith Nolan has revived his professional golfing career on the back of a fighting performance in the US Tour School that ended yesterday with the sixth and final round over the PGA West and Jack Nicklaus Tour courses in Florida.

TODAY’S Bulmers Irish Cups and Shields programme at Rosslare sees the big guns go into action in the Irish Senior Cup.

TWO great old warriors waged a titanic struggle in yesterday's Munster final of the Bulmers Irish Senior Cup at Muskerry before Dermot Morris carried the day for Limerick Golf Club by getting home at the third extra hole against Tom Cleary of Cork Golf Club.

PRISON nurse Jennifer Forsyth was fired last year for sneaking food to an inmate. A few months later, she got permission from the warden to marry that inmate, George Hyatte, a man with a long and violent criminal record.

THERE have been one or two serious negatives, but on balance Jim Carvill’s return earlier this year to the amateur game after 15 years as a professional has proven a great success.

Law enforcement agents raided an illegal cockfight and arrested 144 people attending what one official said may have been one of the largest such gatherings in the US.

BRIDGET JONES actress Renee Zellweger and country music star Kenny Chesney have married in a small ceremony on the Caribbean island of St John in the US Virgin Islands.

Renee Zellweger has stunned Hollywood by marrying her country sweetheart Kenny Chesney.

SEAMUS POWER will fulfil a lifetime's ambition when he lines up for the final of the men's 10,000m at the European championships in Munich next Wednesday night, but it will be the first and last major track championship appearance by the Clareman.