Basketball: Timmy McCarthy, the former Blue Demons and Ireland star, has been appointed temporary head coach of the men's senior team by the Irish Basketball Association (IBA).
He will be responsible for the team for the preliminary round of the European championships in Denmark next May, when Ireland are paired against the host nation as well as Cyprus, Georgia, Luxembourg.
McCarthy will lead the Irish side for three months, when the IBA will appoint a director of coaching for the national squads.
Boxing: Mike Tyson's second stop on his prospective European tour could be Barcelona. Officials in Spain have revealed they have joined Italy in the race to stage Tyson's next bout in April. "We are working in this direction, although nothing has yet been confirmed," said Felix Zabala, the president of the Barcelona Dragons American football team.
Zabala said he had already had talks with Tyson's management team and planned further discussions for later in the week.
If Zabala's plans come to fruition, Tyson will meet an as yet unnamed opponent in the city's Olympic Stadium.
Linford Christie could be forced to return home after the New South Wales Government yesterday banned him from using its state-owned training facilities in Sydney, Australia.
Christie will no longer be able to use the Sydney Academy of Sport, where he has been coaching his elite squad of British athletes, because of his positive drugs test for the anabolic steroid nandrolone.
