Jeff Pearlman

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‘Between you and me and the post’ – Like sentry guards, Jack McCaffrey and umpire Tom O’Kane watch the ball squirm away from the goal, one of the few moments of danger for Dublin in a relatively straight-forward semi-final win over Galway. Photo: “A Season of Sundays 2018”/Sportsfile
Sports books of 2018: The best, the rest and all in between

The Best Tony 10 by Declan Lynch and Tony O’Reilly – Gill Books, €16.99 The story of Tony O’Reilly, the Carlow postmaster who stole €1.75m(...)

Quarterback Steve Young of the Los Angeles Express in action during an USFL game at the Coliseum in Los Angeles in 1984, California. Photograph: Alvin Chung/Allsport
Lessons from ill-fated and utterly bonkers USFL were largely ignored

Nelson Manges was reputed to be one of the richest oil men in Texas in the 1980s. A wannabe JR Ewing, an eccentric plutocrat used to always getting hi(...)

America at Large: Aaron Rodgers in a world of his own

With 12 seconds remaining, the scores level, and the game apparently heading for overtime, the Green Bay Packers’ quarterback Aaron Rodgers decided to(...)