Less than a month after she celebrated a league and cup double at home, Team Montenotte Hotel star Jess Scannell has made an immediate impact playing basketball in Australia.

"What are we without our stories?" asks Dinny, the father of two young men in Enda Walsh’s bizarre homicidal drama, The Walworth Farce.

All across the vast and colourful spectrum of American sporting life, there are thought to be around 900 team nicknames which offer varying degrees of offence to certain sections of the population.

“ROLL TIDE,” one of my fellow hill walkers Shane said out of nowhere as we came down off the Temescal Trail, north of Santa Monica.

A man suspected of killing an eight-year-old boy has told investigators that he suffocated him before dismembering his body.