Dave Hannigan

When New York Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich announced their unusual ‘life swap’ 50 years ago, it was shocking even for the permissive 1970s

The splintering of the sport with the advent of the LIV Tour could not have come at a worse time for golf as generation beige fail to move the needle in the post-Tiger Woods era

The controversy around the LA Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter shows the strange relationship that America has with betting on sports

While the likes of feted ex-coach Nick Saban became multimillionaires, until 2021 college football players never received a cent for their efforts

With his graceful demeanour amid incessant public attention and his deft handling of praise, the Oscar winner has the unmistakable air of Jimmy Barry Murphy, Cork’s original matinee idol

The actor and comedian had a lifelong devotion to the New York Knicks and dark humour

America’s sunshine state has a hard-won reputation for grotesqueries, and a proudly silly new competition will only add to it

Supporters bid to name Penn State's football stadium after ‘secular pope’ Joe Paterno who was removed as head coach in 2011 following a child sex abuse scandal

Daughter-in-law and granddaughter of the notorious ‘Teflon Don’ John Gotti facing assault charges after brawl in the stands at high school basketball game

As the Kansas City Chiefs prepare to bid for their third Super Bowl in five years, back in Kansas the search for answers to to the recent death of three fans is ongoing

Dave Hannigan: It costs up to $10,000 a year for a child to join a competitive baseball or softball team. These outfits then require huge spending on out-of-state tournaments and weekend stays in hotels

Glossy magazines are a relic from a bygone era, a leisure activity rendered utterly obsolete by technology

Phenomenal Iowa Hawkeyes college star Caitlin Clarke will fill arenas across the US when, as expected, she joins the WNBA but the women's game remains a work in progress

Dave Hannigan: Given everything else he achieved, his time at the New York Cosmos is often overlooked, but the German made his mark in the Big Apple

Patchy form of Kansas City Chiefs’ player grist to the mill for business of commercially astute indignation