NFL brings riot of colour and noise to Croke Park as Steelers hold off late Vikings scoring raid
Other sports fancy themselves as theatre but American football is pure sporting vaudeville
Coming to Croke Park: Aaron Rodgers, US sporting great and castigated ‘critical thinker’
The Pittsburgh Steelers player is among the best quarterbacks of all time but has attracted attention in recent years for leftfield pronouncements on a variety of subjects
Denis Walsh: Patrick Horgan leaves a gaping hole that Cork will struggle to fill
Longevity and durability set Horgan apart during his glittering intercounty career
Lovely hurling a uniquely Irish game despite globalisation of sports
‘Hurling lives here, a source of wonder to visitors, just like the Book of Kells or Newgrange. That doesn’t make the wonder any smaller’
Pitch battle: In Dublin, the GAA is rapidly outgrowing its capacity to provide basic facilities
With land at such a premium, GAA pitches are increasingly regarded by local authorities as an inefficient use of space
Golf once refused to sell its soul to Trump. Now it has handed it to him for free
The US president has always craved the approval of golf’s establishment – both for business reasons and for his vanity
From pony to horse and boy to man, Dylan Browne McMonagle is living the dream
Donegal rider stood out as a 12-year-old. A decade on, he’s closing in on champion jockey title
Denis Walsh: GAA must take a leap on paying managers and deal with the consequences
Piety about amateurism belongs to a bygone era
‘There was some pretty awful stuff going on’: Golf’s growing problem with fans heckling players
Bob MacIntyre among players the experience coarsening of discourse in golf
Dodgy boxes are everywhere and that’s bad news for football as it heads for saturation point
Wealth of options at piracy subscribers’ fingertips means big sporting events are losing their value
Tom Brady has brought attention to Birmingham, and the shtick of a saviour
The former NFL star’s investment in the club may be measured in pence rather than pounds, but then his role is more ‘visionary’ than ‘operational’
Team Europe ready to take sportswashing’s poster boy on board for Ryder Cup
The Ryder Cup had a chance to rise above the venality of golf’s grubby power game. That opportunity has been spurned
‘It’s so brilliant to see them hopping off each other’: How camogie moved the goalposts – again
Of the four principal games in the Gaelic games family none has changed more profoundly than camogie since the turn of the century
All-Ireland camogie final: Cork’s three-in-a-row dream unlikely to be stopped
Galway looking to improve their disappointing record in finals
Now it’s clear who the real beneficiaries of the GAA’s split season are
The split season has consistently been portrayed as a triumph for clubs and club players. But the reality is different