Kimmage and Walsh outstay all the others

If sportswriting was a sport itself, then America would dominate it something like it dominates basketball.

For sure it’s a global game now with a number of countries particularly adept at it but any competition would invariably end with the Star Spangled Banner being played at the medal ceremony. Just as it has given the world talents like Bird, Jordan and Bryant to marvel at, so it has produced wordsmiths like Plimpton, Halberstam and Smith to delight us. It is the fatherland of the craft, dwarfing Ireland’s contribution for one in the discipline.

On one major story in particular though, American sportswriting has been found wanting. Thankfully two Irish sports journalists have not.