The AFLW Grand Final was a bit of a shambles but their half-time entertainment was an idea worth stealing

It is a vintage year for biographies, memoirs and deep dives into sport’s darker sides

Rugby needs to do so much more to enlighten a baffled public as to why a retreating scrum concedes so many penalties

Transfers, form, fitness: settle in for months of obsessing over the almost 40 players with a chance of making the squad in March

Over the campaign, this Ireland side showed themselves to be all the things you’d want from a team representing the country

Ireland finally looked in tune for the first time in the autumn internationals

The St John’s and Antrim hurler has escaped drink and drugs and homelessness to turn his life around and win a county title

The chances of making the World Cup are still pretty slim but suddenly there’s an energy that has been missing for too long

‘I think it’s probably the best night that I’ve ever had in my whole life,’ says Parrott after match-winning double

Ireland’s win over Portugal was the outstanding result of the Heimir Hallgrímsson era, every one of his players gave the performance needed

Any child can tell the difference between a real prize and a fake one – how is the US president not dying of sheer mortification?

Japan has played a huge role in the career of the man who has coached - and won - more international games than anyone else

Judge ‘couldn’t imagine a more reprehensible fraud’ than extortion based on cancer

Paris was supposed to be the end for the two-time Olympic gold medallist but a year of reflection has led her to decide to get back into the ring

Malachy Clerkin: We think we can read the minds of sportspeople. What a dopey conceit