Paul Hornung: The hard-drinking, hard-smoking playboy of the NFLFormer “Golden Boy” of the US died at the age of 84 after a battle with dementiaWed Nov 18 2020 - 17:00
Donald Trump needs to take a lesson from kids’ sport – how to lose with classDave Hannigan: Trump presidency has dismissed countless life lessons in four yearsWed Nov 11 2020 - 17:00
Celtic Park – where the New York Irish once sported and played ... drank and foughtAmerica at Large: The old ground in Long Island City was the scene of an infamous prohibition riotThu Nov 05 2020 - 06:00
US election: Trump using executive orders to reshape fabric of AmericaMedia caught up with circus act and failing to notice real changes being madeSat Oct 31 2020 - 01:00
America at Large: Golfers guilty of legitimising Trump’s toxic regimePresident despises African-American NBA stars because they are truly self-made menThu Oct 29 2020 - 06:00
Dave Hannigan: Rapinoe and Bird power couple lead fight for women’s sport in USRapinoe questioning why women’s basketball doesn’t get same exposure as soccerWed Oct 21 2020 - 17:00
US election: The New York enclave that exposes media myths about TrumpismUS president’s support in Suffolk County is largely drawn from suburban middle-classTue Oct 20 2020 - 01:00
From war to the Yankees to Aughrim: Mike Burke’s remarkable lifeDave Hannigan: New York franchise poor form has brought Burke’s name back upWed Oct 14 2020 - 17:00
Dave Hannigan: the radio hosts of Trump Nation, a bizarro world where up is downHannity, Limbaugh and their peers exert significant influence in an increasingly polarised USAWed Oct 14 2020 - 01:00
America at Large: The evolution of LeBron James still hampered by blind spotsHaving found his voice late in his 20s, basketball’s best player has let it be heardThu Oct 08 2020 - 06:00
Dave Hannigan: How Christy Ring aroused the curiosity of American mediaGreatest hurler of them all was feted by some of America’s top writers on his trips to USThu Oct 01 2020 - 06:44
America at Large: Trump family go all-in with UFC’s in-house racist CovingtonFighter's alt-right, ultra-nationalist, xenophobe schtick is just an actThu Sept 24 2020 - 07:08
America at Large: Crane a passionate early advocate for hurling in the USAJournalist believed Irish game had the chance to take root in late 19th century AmericaThu Sept 17 2020 - 06:26
America at Large: Easy to see why Trump loves Lou HoltzFormer Notre Dame football coach has become a darling of right-wing mediaThu Sept 10 2020 - 06:00
Nothing new in meddling American football club owners calling the shotsFormer New York Cosmos owner Steve Ross’s story a cautionary tale for Dundalk fansThu Sept 03 2020 - 07:00
America at Large: Shaquille O’Neal still slam-dunking life to the maxThe seven foot one, 25 stone former NBA star is universally popular and TV knows itThu Aug 27 2020 - 06:00
Woody Johnson: Trump’s New York Jets-owning UK ambassadorControversial figure has been trying to bring British Open to Trump’s TurnberryWed Aug 19 2020 - 17:00
Bundini Brown: The man who invented ‘float like a butterfly, sting like a bee’New book recounts the life and times of Muhammad Ali’s famous cornermanWed Aug 12 2020 - 17:00
America at Large: When not taking one for the team is the wisest course of actionPro players are deciding to opt out of the forthcoming season as US battles coronavirusThu Aug 06 2020 - 06:00
GAA must take heed as baseball becomes a game for the few, with moneyDave Hannigan: Just eight per cent of major leaguers today are African-AmericanWed Jul 29 2020 - 17:00
Dave Hannigan: 20 years of highs and lows in the US with sport at the centreAs my eldest son left home I reflected on the last two decades and the experiences of lifeSat Jul 25 2020 - 08:00
America at Large: Deafening silence after anti-Semitic spewingLack of critical response from peers after high-profile sports stars’ social media postsThu Jul 16 2020 - 06:00
Dave Hannigan: Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish leprechaun needs its ass kickedLogo is worth millions to the Indiana college but is beginning to come under scrutinyThu Jul 09 2020 - 06:00
College football turns blind eye to Covid-19 by risking players’ healthDave Hannigan: Indentured servitude of the system fully exposed by bizarre attitudesThu Jul 02 2020 - 06:00
Foxhall Parker Keene: The man who mastered every sport, lived like a king and died pennilessOne of the most famous stars of the Gilded Age had a particular affiliation with IrelandThu Jun 25 2020 - 06:40
Maggie Haney’s abusive regime just another stain on USA GymnasticsDave Hannigan: It’s the same old, depressing story in gymnastics, only the names changeThu Jun 18 2020 - 06:00
America at Large: Chicago bids fond farewell to Fighting Tom O’SheaThe Dublin-born educator and boxing coach left a huge mark on his adopted cityThu Jun 11 2020 - 07:00
Terence MacSwiney and the hunger strike that made world headlinesThe lord mayor of Cork’s feat of endurance and the drawn-out circumstances of his death magnified the cause of Irish independence in the international arenaWed Jun 03 2020 - 00:00
Dave Hannigan: Trump gets the clubs back out as death toll keeps risingUS president’s golf exploits widely reported but it doesn’t stop him racking up roundsThu May 28 2020 - 06:00
America at Large: When ‘the nicest killer you could ever meet’ ran boxingFrankie Carbo’s fearsome reputation let him control the sport in a post-prohibition USWed May 20 2020 - 19:00
‘It ain’t about how hard you hit’ – how sports speeches are inspiring a Long Island hospitalDr Matt Schwartz has been motivating staff with lines from Rocky and other filmsWed May 13 2020 - 17:00
Justin Rohrwasser: The Patriots’ surprise draft pick with a Three Percenters tattooKicker has a symbol associated with a right-wing militia on his left armWed May 06 2020 - 17:15
Dave Hannigan: Trump’s long links to wrestling’s carnival of buffooneryFlorida reclassifying WWE as “essential industry” only possible in weirdest of timesThu Apr 30 2020 - 06:00
America at Large: Sport threads its way through so many of those felled by Covid-19The numbers of dead are hard to fathom but the pages of obituaries shed some light on their livesThu Apr 23 2020 - 06:00
Bernard Dillon: The Derby-winning jockey from Kerry who had it all and lost it allDillon and his famous wife Marie Lloyd were the Posh and Becks of Edwardian BritainWed Apr 15 2020 - 16:00
America at Large: Hurling fan Dowling leading the fight against Covid-19Limerick native and boss of a major healthcare provider drafted in to help New York's responseWed Apr 08 2020 - 17:30
America at Large: On Long Island, longing for a return to our field of dreamsThe natural rhythms of our sporting life have been thrown all out of kilterWed Apr 01 2020 - 18:00
America at Large: How Trojan Giant Paddy Ryan helped change the face of boxingTipperary-born boxer to take his place in the International Boxing Hall of FameWed Mar 25 2020 - 18:00
Max Von Sydow’s role in Escape to Victory must be one of his bestLate actor turned in a fine performance as the ‘good German officer’ in war-time filmThu Mar 19 2020 - 06:48
Biden’s tendency to spin a yarn doesn’t seem such a big deal nowTrump so mendacious that his relationship with factual truth is practically non-existentWed Mar 11 2020 - 21:00
America at Large: Pouncey’s rant gets to the heart of how NFL is failing playersProposed new Collective Bargaining Agreement keeps the power firmly with the ownersWed Mar 04 2020 - 19:00
Dave Hannigan: Tyson Fury, Trump’s perfect heavyweight championThe British fighter might just play perfectly with the US president’s base of supportersWed Feb 26 2020 - 20:51
America at Large: Jimmy Conway’s legacy marked from Cabra West to PortlandThe Dubliner’s time playing in the North American Soccer League was the start of a love affair with the cityWed Feb 19 2020 - 17:15
New York Knicks owner may be the most despised in American sportAmerica at Large: James Dolan has presided over two decades of astonishing dysfunctionWed Feb 12 2020 - 17:00
Dave Hannigan: Eintracht Frankfurt keen to tap into American support base againClub’s historic USA tour in 1951 proved lucrative – but torrid finale against Glasgow Celtic exacted a physical priceWed Feb 05 2020 - 18:00
Dave Hannigan: Everyone believed they were on first name terms with Kobe BryantRecent full-colour portrait of 'Black Mamba' have included broad strokes of rape caseWed Jan 29 2020 - 21:00
Rocky Johnson: Rags to riches pioneer for black wrestlersDwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s father changed the industry when he broke throughWed Jan 22 2020 - 17:00
ESPN, UFC ignoring McGregor’s shady actions to capitalise on pay-per-view kingPromoting Dubliner’s UFC return like any other fight is evidence of the normalisation of grotesqueWed Jan 15 2020 - 17:51
Claressa Shields: The US answer to Katie Taylor with a very different imageAmerican woman bidding to become fastest boxer in history to win world titles in three divisionsWed Jan 08 2020 - 15:58
Meet Andrew Giuliani – Donald Trump’s golf pro in residenceSon of president’s personal lawyer earns over $90,000 a year in the White HouseWed Jan 01 2020 - 17:03
