TOTTENHAM defender Michael Dawson plans to give Young Boys a taste of their own medicine in next week’s must-win Champions League showdown at White Hart Lane.

UNDER normal circumstances Paul Casey would not be paying close attention to what is happening at the Czech Open.

THE sheer effervescence of Raffaele Cretaro relieved the pressure around Dalymount Park as he scored twice to give the champions a morale-boosting win.

MISSION not quite accomplished but getting awfully close. That has to be the verdict for Rory McIlroy after the curtain came down on the 2010 major championships.

GERMANY’S Martin Kaymer has a very good command of the English language but it took the first major victory of his career to learn the meaning of “unflappable”.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON admitted last month that he would be “devastated to miss the Ryder Cup.”

A SENIOR Swedish prosecutor reopened a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange yesterday, the latest twist to a puzzling case in which prosecutors of different ranks have overruled each other.

DOES the energy regulator seriously believe renewables will give us security of energy supply? If so, he’s literally whistling in the wind.

WITH Saturday’s early kick-off at Ewood Park live on the box, I wasn’t particularly enthusiastic about a crack of dawn departure for a long schlep up to Lancashire, after an exhausting week at work.

ALLIED Irish Bank has insisted it fired a self-declared whistle-blower for accessing the private bank accounts of his colleagues without authorisation.

DERRY chairman John Keenan has vowed a ‘zero tolerance’ investigation after star forward Eoin Bradley allegedly struck a referee after a club championship game at the weekend.

EVEN by the exalted standard of comebacks the Cork minor footballers have engineered this season, what unfolded in Croke Park yesterday was outrageous.

JAMES McCARTAN wore the look of a relieved man after the breathless finish to yesterday’s All-Ireland semi-final.

DESPITE claims to the contrary, the Kilkenny senior hurling management team is a fairly democratic institution these days.

AFTER a woeful performance from Tiger Woods in Ohio at the weekend, United States Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin may well have to review his long-stated position that the world number one is an integral part of his planning for this year’s title defence against Europe.

A COMPANY town with a company golf course, almost everything you see in this corner of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin appears to have the name ‘Kohler’ stamped on it, from the bathtubs to the owner of this week’s US PGA Championship venue.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON has declared himself ready to do some heavy lifting ahead of this week’s US PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.

US RYDER CUP captain Corey Pavin didn’t know whether to laugh or cry after surveying the leaderboard at the end of the WGC Bridgestone Invitational in Akron.

TIGER WOODS is scheduled to meet Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin at the US PGA Championship this week, with his golf game now appearing to resemble what has happened to his private life this past year – a total shambles.

AS it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be. It was the best of times.