America at Large: Time-worn Wonderlic still adding up for NFLTwelve-minute 50-question multiple choice test still used as aid in choosing draft playersWed Apr 26 2017 - 20:15
America at Large: Basketball legends rebound to play in BIG3Game’s marquee names come out of retirment to play new leagues’s half-court formatThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:45
America at Large: Funding for women’s soccer in US should embarrass FAIIrish women’s team receive same level of annual funding as girls’ U-15 squad in USThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:40
Is LaVar Ball the worst kind of sports parent?America at Large: Father of basketball prodigy Lonzo Ball shouts loud to get attentionWed Apr 05 2017 - 16:28
America at Large: Christian Pulisic the new great hopeBorussia Dortmund’s 18-year-old prodigy living with a nation’s high level of expectationWed Mar 29 2017 - 15:45
America at Large: Late Jimmy Breslin wore Irishness lightlyPulitzer prize winning journalist and writer fell foul of conservative New York GAA mafiaWed Mar 22 2017 - 19:00
America at Large: Lou Duva - a name synonymous with boxing’s golden eraNew Yorker was corner man, trainer, manager and promoter with 19 world championsWed Mar 15 2017 - 20:03
America at Large: Johnson will need all his ‘Magic’ to make Lakers great againLegendary figure returns as president with the aim of returning the club to NBA heightsWed Mar 01 2017 - 21:00
America at Large: No-nonsense Auriemma builds all-conquering dynastyUniversity of Connecticut women’s basketball team have won 100 games win in rowWed Feb 22 2017 - 19:00
America at Large: Jeff Bagwell the latest to cash in on his fameSports memorabilia remains a multi-billion dollar industry throughout the USAWed Feb 15 2017 - 16:15
America at Large: Courageous Steve Kerr not afraid to speak truth to powerPersonal history lends fitting weight to the words of Golden State Warriors’ coachWed Feb 08 2017 - 20:00
America at Large: Belichick and Cody both driven by a singular passionThe New England Patriots coach aiming to make history by claiming a fifth Super BowlWed Feb 01 2017 - 18:12
America at Large: Manziel grows tired of the wild man insideQuarterback who has squandered so many chances has embarked on rehabilitation tourWed Jan 25 2017 - 20:00
America at Large: Aaron Rodgers in a world of his ownGreen Bay Packers quarterback has family issues but has brought the game to another levelWed Jan 18 2017 - 20:30
Linda McMahon seems a perfect fit for Trump administrationForensic examination of professional wrestling magnate’s resume raises many troubling questionsWed Jan 11 2017 - 21:00
America at Large: Martha Firestone Ford driving Detroit Lions to higher groundRemarkable 91-year-old owner has overseen a transformation in NFL team’s fortunesWed Jan 04 2017 - 16:43
America at Large: George Karl lifts the lid on drug use within the NBAVeteran coach points to major drugs issue within “cleanest” of USA’s big three sportsWed Dec 28 2016 - 17:15
Conor McGregor enjoys a fairytale in New YorkSports review of 2016: Dave Hannigan on the Irish phenomenon’s seemingly unstoppable ascent to fameSun Dec 25 2016 - 09:00
History teaches us that Floyd Mayweather v Conor McGregor would be farcicalMuhammad Ali one of a number of boxers to dabble in bizarre mixed combat sport boutsWed Dec 21 2016 - 18:53
Street fighter Bernard Hopkins continues to defy expectationsOn Saturday the ex-con from North Philly will fight for the 65th and final time, aged 51Thu Dec 15 2016 - 16:56
America at Large: high school football deaths not often invokedBrain damage from tackling by high school players is not incidental, it is inevitableWed Dec 07 2016 - 20:00
America at Large: The high-wire life of the NFL kickerBlair Walsh the latest to discover you can be one poor attempt away from the sackWed Nov 30 2016 - 18:52
America at Large: Klinsmann’s dream ends in nightmareUS soccer failed to attain the self identity it craves under former German managerWed Nov 23 2016 - 22:00
America at Large: Decline NFL ratings continues to puzzle stakeholdersMost powerful ratings juggernaut in American sport has mysteriously slowed downThu Nov 17 2016 - 17:16
Conor McGregor remains most valuable asset in UFC’s short historyThe Dubliner’s New York history-making was more of a coronation than a real contestSun Nov 13 2016 - 18:21
Conor McGregor makes UFC history at Madison Square GardenDubliner becomes first person in UFC history to hold two world title belts at same timeSun Nov 13 2016 - 07:20
UFC’s crazy trip to Conor McGregor headline show in Madison Square GardenSaturday night’s New York card shows how far the sport has travelled this last 20 yearsWed Nov 09 2016 - 20:00
America at Large: Morality in short supply at college where God and football rulesArt Briles unlikely to coach again as sexual assault scandal engulfs West Texas collegeWed Nov 02 2016 - 17:03
Bill ‘Spaceman’ Lee still marching to sound of a different drumFormer Boston Red Sox hero presents his alternative world view to Vermont electorateWed Oct 26 2016 - 16:45
America at Large: Story of Sonny Liston’s death makes good readingFormer heavyweight world champion boxer left questions that will remain unansweredWed Oct 19 2016 - 18:13
America at Large: Trump’s campaign resembling WWE buffooneryThe US presidential candidate has already been inducted into the sport’s Hall of FameWed Oct 12 2016 - 20:00
America at Large: Joakim Noah’s pacifist stance greeted by jingoistic hysteriaBut New York Knicks player backs up his rhetoric with actions in troubled ChigagoWed Oct 05 2016 - 18:36
Dave Hannigan: American audiences far from captivated by Ryder CupClash between USA and Europe far down the list of priorities for general sports fansWed Sept 28 2016 - 16:31
America at Large: W P Kinsella's body of baseball literatureCanadian author exquisitely captured game’s brew of nostalgia, ritual and romanceWed Sept 21 2016 - 20:32
America at Large: Tim Tebow the latest to make bizarre move to MLBFormer NFL quarter-back has signed for the New York Mets in a move raising eyebrowsWed Sept 14 2016 - 17:33
Drama in the Bahamas: When Ali floated like an anchor and stung like a mothIn an extract from his new book Dave Hannigan details Muhammad Ali’s last fightSat Sept 10 2016 - 06:00
From riches to rags: How NFL fairytale often ends in debtors’ courtAverage careers last just over three seasons meaning healthy wages often don’t lastWed Sept 07 2016 - 20:13
America at Large: US soccer finds time apt to dispense with Hope SoloOther factors in play as long-serving goalkeeper subjected to draconian punishmentWed Aug 31 2016 - 18:00
America at Large: Criminality runs deep in college sportsMore than 1,300 college footballers have been arrested since 2010Wed Aug 24 2016 - 20:18
Dave Hannigan: Are Conor McGregor’s WWE rants part of calculated plan?Irishman’s UFC career has always had more than a touch of the Ric Flairs about itWed Aug 17 2016 - 14:12
Dave Hannigan: Sinister story lies hidden beneath a sport that enthrals AmericaUSA Gymnastics coming under the spotlight for ignoring sex abuse allegationsWed Aug 10 2016 - 19:58
America at Large: Bizarre coda to Olympian Jim Thorpe’s epic lifeNative American’s sons and tribe still seeking to bring him home to a fitting resting placeWed Aug 03 2016 - 16:30
The Tipperary-born New York gangster behind America’s oldest race trackJohn Morrissey was, among many things, America’s bareknuckle boxing championWed Jul 20 2016 - 21:00
America at Large: Lenny Dykstra’s tall tale fails to nail key issuesFormer baseball star’s recounting of his colourful life leaves some gaping holesWed Jul 13 2016 - 20:42
America at Large: Youth soccer mostly about milking the cash cowsMost families can expect little change out of $7,000 for their nine-year-old to play gameWed Jul 06 2016 - 16:17
America at Large: Trump crossed line early with foray into gridironUS presidential candidate’s move into pro sport largely an attention-seeking exerciseWed Jun 29 2016 - 19:03
America at Large: Cannabis use high on NFL agendaRather than using presciption painkillers many are now advocating marijuanaWed Jun 22 2016 - 16:28
Dave Hannigan: Writing about Ali is like entering a rabbit holeSuch is wealth of material you never know what gems the journey has in storeWed Jun 08 2016 - 17:29
The unlikely triumvirate that brought Ali to Croke ParkThe fascinating story behind Muhammad Ali’s fight against Al ‘Blue’ Lewis in DublinSun Jun 05 2016 - 11:58
Muhammad Ali: The greatest – in and out of the ringBoxing legend was one of world’s most-loved sportsmenSat Jun 04 2016 - 07:39
