Yankees

Doddie Weir sits down and starts to bang out jokes. A lot are about drinking although now he struggles to hold a pint of Guinness. He knows he is dy(...)

A line from Philip Larkin was on my mind while working on this project. Not the famous reference to his parents, but an aside about beginnin(...)

I don’t know how it will turn out, but for today at least, the Boston Red Sox are ahead in the 2018 World Series, two ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers(...)

A week before the Trump presidential campaign announced that it had hired Paul Manafort, a New York Yankees ticket specialist alerted him that his ann(...)

Jerry Lewis, the comedian and filmmaker who was adored by many, disdained by others, but unquestionably a defining figure of American entertainment in(...)

US banks that have carved out a lucrative niche financing the construction and renovation of sports stadiums are making a push into Europe, signing a (...)

“It’s tough to make predictions, particularly about the future.” So goes one of the quotes attributed to the baseball legend Yogi Berra. The 1950s Y(...)

It has always been one of the more elusive subjects in sport, if not life itself: is it any craic being an All Black? Take this evening. Your name mi(...)

A small plane that made headlines when it landed safely on a California highway years ago has crashed onto the same stretch of road - slamming into a (...)

Baseball player Lawrence Peter ‘Yogi’ Berra, one of the most successful catchers of all time, has died at the age of 90, the Yogi Berra Museum has ann(...)