Dave Hannigan: LeBron James aiming to lead Cleveland to gloryCavaliers face a best-of-seven NBA series with current holders Golden State WarriorsWed Jun 01 2016 - 16:35
New York City FC embarrass themselves on and off the pitch as Frank Lampard laboursDefeat to Red Bulls reflective of crass marketing attempts that do MLS no favoursWed May 25 2016 - 15:53
Deluded Penn State fans and alumni still defend Joe PaternoRefusal to accept their hero did anything wrong by not reporting child molester Jerry Sandusky to policeWed May 11 2016 - 18:02
America At Large: Deadhead Bill Walton thinks outside boxBastketball great’s musing makes for compelling television entertainmentWed May 04 2016 - 19:10
What Conor McGregor and Donald Trump have in common . . . And it ain’t prettyNew Yorker born into riches and former apprentice appeal to same demographicWed Apr 27 2016 - 18:22
America at Large: Battle on to rid baseball of tobacco-chewing scourgeAmerican municipalities now starting to outlaw the vile habit from sports venuesWed Apr 20 2016 - 20:25
America at Large: Concussion dangers hitting home in NFLNumerous big-name players are taking matters into own hands and quitting gameWed Apr 13 2016 - 16:25
America at Large: Augusta’s glamour disguises a grim realityThe Masters aside, this is a city of meth labs and pawn shops, strip joints and gang cultureWed Apr 06 2016 - 16:35
America at Large: Vin Scully’s lilt a soundtrack to a bygone ageThe voice of baseball’s LA Dodgers will call time on his commentary career at the end of this seasonWed Mar 30 2016 - 21:30
US sports stars play their Donald Trump cardDave Hannigan’s America at Large: John Daly the latest to row in behind presidential candidateWed Mar 23 2016 - 16:51
Peyton Manning’s storybook ending to the NFL not all it seemsTawdry allegations and crass commercialisation made this a strange farewellWed Mar 09 2016 - 16:50
America at Large: MLS still the home of overpaid has-beensPirlo shows why real progress is difficult to quantify for US soccer leagueWed Mar 02 2016 - 21:00
America At Large: Sports Pope/Dope – a mix of Dunphy, Clarkson and PartridgeMike Francesa, New York’s most popular sports talk show host, is bowing outWed Feb 24 2016 - 22:00
America at Large: Rio coronation expected for gymnast Simone BilesThe coming Olympics will showcase the talent of perhaps the best gymnast ever seenWed Feb 17 2016 - 22:14
America At Large: Spectre of concussion raised in sport of thrills and spillsSuicide of BMX icon Dave Mirra has called into question attitude towards safety in sportWed Feb 10 2016 - 22:00
Dave Hannigan: America shows true colours in case against NewtonTreatment of NFL’s most exhilarating quarterback is a window into race relations in USThu Feb 04 2016 - 01:26
Dave Hannigan: Bernie Sanders puts sport in proper perspectiveUS presidential candidate’s democratic socialism has its roots in sport of his childhoodWed Jan 27 2016 - 22:00
Dave Hannigan: Epitaph of streetfighter who left Ali needing 10 stitchesTroubled Florida contender Jeff Sims couldn’t keep dodging the bulletsWed Jan 20 2016 - 22:29
America at Large: Sceptics line up as ‘Moneyball’ mould-breaker tackles NFLPaul DePodesta expected to be nothing less than saviour at struggling Cleveland BrownsWed Jan 13 2016 - 22:04
America at Large: Peyton Manning drug story being ignoredDenver Broncos quarterback accused of using Human Growth HormoneWed Jan 06 2016 - 22:02
America at Large: Concussion, the NFL and players’ livesHard-hitting film exposes traumatic links between American football and brain injuryWed Dec 30 2015 - 22:00
America at Large: King and crown prince in Christmas showdownLeBron James is a player for ages but Stephen Curry could be ready to usurp himWed Dec 23 2015 - 22:01
America at Large: Tom Brady drops ball with support for toxic TrumpNFL icon in minority as star athletes including Charles Barkley lambast RepublicanThu Dec 17 2015 - 08:48
America at Large: Baseball's fleeting shame at drug cheat Barry BondsRehabilitation of former San Francisco Giant and others shows criticism dies quickWed Dec 09 2015 - 22:30
Dave Hannigan: McGregor hype machine going into overdriveComparing the Irish UFC fighter to someone like Muhammad Ali simply ludicrousWed Dec 02 2015 - 22:00
America at Large: ‘Marvellous’ Mal Whitfield a true pioneerWherever he went, he held training clinics and woke up a continent to athleticsWed Nov 25 2015 - 22:00
America at Large: US women’s soccer icon has already changed worldWorld Cup winner and record goalscorer Abby Wambach bows out next monthWed Nov 18 2015 - 22:00
America at Large: Washington still unwilling to ditch their Redskin baggageClub appealing a court decision to ban their trademark which offends Native AmericansWed Nov 11 2015 - 22:00
Muslims hit for six by NYPD monitoring of cricketFor a decade cricket became a sinister means of surveilling New York’s Muslim communityThu Nov 05 2015 - 01:55
America at Large: New York Mets fighting Yankees trendImprobable rise to World Series place a big achievement for Big Apple’s second teamThu Oct 29 2015 - 10:08
America at Large: Golovkin’s ‘Big Drama Show’ likely to run and runKazakh boxer has conquered America to become the world’s most exciting fighterWed Oct 21 2015 - 22:00
America at Large: Baseball’s odd canons at odds with the zeitgeistSport which strictly observes by the game’s arcane by-laws turned a blind eye to drugs issueWed Oct 14 2015 - 22:00
America At Large: Cardinal rules just there to be brokenCollege basketball accused of using all means in recruitment drive of young talentWed Oct 07 2015 - 22:30
America at Large: Finale failed to dim the memory of Frazier’s greatnessForty years on from the Thrilla in Manila, his place in boxing’s history is assuredThu Oct 01 2015 - 15:52
America at Large: Fantasy football behemoths running into troubleBillion-dollar industry exploiting loopholes in US’s notoriously restrictive gambling lawsWed Sept 23 2015 - 22:03
America at Large: Fenway Park steeped in Ireland’s own troubled pastDublin and Galway hurlers have lot of history to live up to in NovemberWed Sept 16 2015 - 22:00
America at Large: Gridiron truly America's national sportAmerican Football seems impervious to the type of blows that seriously damage rivalsWed Sept 09 2015 - 22:00
America At Large: Pressure weighing heavily on the youngMiddle ground needed between the extremes used to teach children on how to view sportWed Aug 26 2015 - 22:00
America at Large: Far more to coming out than the initial celebratory responseBlazing a trail brings its own, very different kind of burden. Sometimes, that weight will drag a body downWed Aug 19 2015 - 22:00
Dave Hannigan: Memories of my mother illuminate early sporting yearsFor my mam, there was no sulking in defeat and, even more adamantly, no boasting in victorySat Aug 15 2015 - 10:00
America at Large: Michael Phelps aiming to make a big splash in RioMost decorated Olympian of all time over his addiction problems and targeting more gold medalsWed Aug 12 2015 - 22:00
America at Large: Seedy underbelly of Ohio State band’s ‘culture’ exposedSecret songbook included songs mocking Holocaust victims and gays and ditties about rapeWed Aug 05 2015 - 22:00
UFC’s biggest star suffers from lack of quality opponentsRonda Rousey’s last three fights have lasted a mere 14, 16 and 66 secondsThu Jul 30 2015 - 09:02
America at Large: MLS salary structure not paying off for mostSan Jose squad earn less than new LA Galaxy star and ex-Liverpool legend Steven GerrardThu Jul 23 2015 - 01:34
Dave Hannigan: Noxious Trump polluting his own ambitions for golf courseNew York facility was built with taxpayers’ money but is set to make tycoon even richerWed Jul 15 2015 - 22:04
America at Large: The battle against ignorance to banish Confederate flagSport has become embroiled in renewed debate about future of Southern CrossWed Jul 01 2015 - 21:49
America at large: Under Armour celebrating Spieth’s Major achievementsSportswear company benefiting hugely from the Texan golfer’s spectacular riseWed Jun 24 2015 - 22:30
America at Large: Sexist blather epitomises all that’s wrong with ESPNStephen A Smith is presenter with expertise in offensive outbursts – and he has flourishedWed Jun 17 2015 - 22:39
America at large: Dave HanniganBostonians increasingly opposed to the city’s 2024 Olympics bidWed Jun 10 2015 - 22:30
America at Large: Superiority of US soccer all about equalityStephanie Roche was always likely to struggle in the top-class American soccer leagueWed Jun 03 2015 - 22:02
