Messi and the soccer show ponies thrive as slick suits shore up the shills
Astronomical gap between what Designated Players (high-profile imports) and ordinary pros take home is a troubling issue since the Beckham years in Los Angeles
Inside the Rumble in the Jungle: Ali’s extramarital affair, Foreman’s ‘drugged water’ claim
As the boxers retreated to their corners to hear the first bell, a billion people around the globe were watching
Dave Hannigan: Mark Cuban doing his best to expose Donald Trump for what he is
Nobody has spent more time this past few weeks pointing out that the wannabe emperor has not now or never had any clothes
Bananas baseball: a travelling circus or potential saviour of America’s national game?
The crowd-pleasing stunts of the Savannah Bananas are bringing in fans and piquing the interest of the po-faced Major League game
Kris Kristofferson’s sporting passion and exploits just another aspect of his unique character
The former Golden Gloves boxer was still showing off the relics of old baseball and football scars in his eighties
Eight deaths in first month of high school football season all part of the demented game
Excessive machismo of preening adults in coaching roles often places kids in grave danger
Mauricio Pochettino lands in the USA full of hope, but World Cup glory looks a long way off
The Argentinian’s task is to figure out a winning formula for a squad that has continually added up to less than the sum of its parts
Dave Hannigan: Phenomenal Caitlin Clark changing the face of American women’s basketball
Such is Caitlin Clark's extraordinary impact both on and off the basketball court, comparisons with the transformational impact of the likes of sporting icons Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan are valid
Charlie Smyth and Jude McAtamney in curious sporting limbo as they await shot at NFL big time
New NFL season brings tantalising opportunity for two Ulster men, Charlie Smyth and Jude McAtamney
Dave Hannigan: Farewell to Scott Bloomquist, the king of the dirt track racers who embodied the outlaw spirit
With his swagger and flowing locks, Bloomquist, who died earlier this month, looked like a singer from a 1980s metal band, but was a big noise on the racing circuit
College football, the rancid corner of the American sports world
College Football Classic is coming to Dublin this week. It is astonishing Irish authorities are involved in welcoming this meat grinder
Boxing loses another piece of its soul as it hands more of itself over to Saudi Arabia
Chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority (GEA) Turki Alalshikh has somehow been inducted into Nevada Boxing’s Hall of Fame
A new Trump plan: to get stock car drivers to revamp the US army
Whenever Trump trains his blunderbuss on any corner of sport it’s difficult to decipher whether he is deadly serious, trying to generate instant outrage, or just heading off on ramble of random insanity
Dave Hannigan: Olympic Games just another venue for Snoop Dogg to hawk his many wares
The once notorious rapper turned businessman Snoop Dogg is now highly popular with the major American TV networks who can’t get enough of his unique schtick at the Olympics
Johnny McEntee: The Project 2025 adviser and former college quarterback who worked his way into Trump’s inner-circle
Johnny McEntee is a member of Donald Trump's inner sanctum and is senior adviser to Project 2025, the ultra-right wing group preparing the radical policies of the next republican administration