KEITH EARLS is facing a fight to be fit for Munster’s third and fourth round Heineken Cup clashes against the Scarlets.

GREG NORMAN insists his former caddie Steve Williams is not a racist and that Adam Scott was right not to fire him for a remark he made about Tiger Woods in Shanghai last week.

IRELAND show jumping manager Robert Splaine hopes the Army Equitation School can boost Ireland’s chances of qualifying two riders for the Olympics by loaning one of its top horses, Annestown, to Billy Twomey.

THEY’VE been getting a little bit hot and bothered over a book up in Donegal, if you haven’t heard.

STEVE WILLIAMS can now surely be described as the Teflon caddie after getting away with his latest regrettable outburst, this time concerning his former employer Tiger Woods.

Caring for her mother and grandmother inspired Anna McPartlin’s confessional writing style,says Caroline O’Doherty

DARREN CAVE looked like a man who had been hit by a steamroller after Ulster finally broke their four-game losing sequence thanks to a hard-earned, but thoroughly deserved victory over derby rivals Connacht at Ravenhill.

A COUPLE of weeks ago, Shay Livingstone was chatting to a friend about his impending move from Cork to Galway.

HAPPY new year to all readers, and fear not.

ANDRE VILLAS-BOAS is facing a full-blown crisis at Chelsea, admitting his side are not good enough to win the Premier League.

SHOW jumper Denis Lynch has risen to second in the Rolex World Cup league table following his fifth place with Abbervail van het Dingeshof in Mechelen, Belgium, yesterday.

THE German Football Association (DFB) has been left seething at Fabio Capello’s criticism over their recruitment policy.

HE’S not playing as regularly as he did in a Connacht jersey, but Sean Cronin is still convinced making the move to Leinster has made him a better player.

PAUL O’CONNELL’S elevation to Irish captain for the RBS Six Nations Championship yesterday came as no surprise.

Mark McGovern is finally back at home in Fermanagh, having almost lost his life playing Gaelic football in America. But the 23-year-old’s tale is not one with a storybook happy ending.

IF Christmas is for the kids, today is mainly for winners. A cruel, elitist time of year when we look back and pick our best, our favourite, our most memorable.

BARRACK BIMBO (Bexhill Eoin-Barrack Court), owned in Tournafulla, Co Limerick by young Shane Curtin, served notice to all opponents in the Greyhound and Pet World Oaks next month she is ready, willing and well able to challengeall-comers.

HORSE Sport Ireland (HSI) has suffered a 7% cut in its high performance funding from the Irish Sports Council as a result of the failure to qualify a show jumping team for the Olympics.

It’s been a year where sportstars at home and abroad have again had plenty to say for themselves. Fintan O’Toole and John Riordan picked out their best offerings

REMEMBER the end of When Harry Met Sally?