
Dan Kneen is 'in a good place' in build-up to Dundrod
Dan Kneen is confident he can return to winning ways at the 2015 Metzeler Ulster Grand Prix as the Manxman finally feels he has found a strong set-up with his Padgett’s Honda.
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Dan Kneen is confident he can return to winning ways at the 2015 Metzeler Ulster Grand Prix as the Manxman finally feels he has found a strong set-up with his Padgett’s Honda.
There once was a time when southern GAA teams coming north for games would treat the six counties of Northern Ireland as a serious threat to their safety. Perhaps they might even have been right.
Former Ireland Women’s Head Coach Philip Doyle will take charge of the Ulster women’s team ahead of the 2015 inter-provincial series.
It's coming. Sounds like a tag line for Jaws 10. What I'm actually referring to is a NFL franchise in the UK. The Yanks, delirious at all the Wembley sell-outs their sport delivers on an annual basis, have wanted one for ages. Their dream scenario moved a step closer this week with Tottenham announcing they would host a minimum of two NFL games per season over 10 years at their new stadium.
BBC Radio One made me giggle on the way to work. On the breakfast show they were having a quiz to see who could tell whether the ear-piercing noises being broadcast came from Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka or a fox.
With Rory McIlroy seemingly set to miss next week's Open Championship, the debate over his decision to relax with some five-a-side rumbles on.
After a time-trial won by Rohan Dennis on Saturday and a sprint finish taken by Andre Greipel yesterday, today's belated introduction of some hill climbs to the Tour de France should see the battle for the famed yellow jersey really begin.
Right about now, the top brass of the GAA in Croke Park will be sifting through a number of different proposals on how best to re-imagine the All-Ireland football and hurling Championships. The deadline for any proposals has now passed and we pity those whose task it is to go through all the documents.
The eyes of the sporting world will be fixed on Silverstone this Sunday when the iconic Northamptonshire circuit plays host to the British Grand Prix.
I must admit, I am not fully sure if I 'get' the Conor McGregor UFC fighting phenomenon. On closer consideration, I have concluded it is a generational thing.
Wimbledon is back so let’s all unpack the champagne and smoked salmon sandwiches and watch some tennis.
In a glittering career that has already brought her 20 grand slams titles, Serena Williams is still chasing one piece of elusive history as her Wimbledon 2015 campaign begins against Margarita Gasparyan this afternoon.
He hasn't gone away you know. There's plenty of life left in this old dog. Just when you thought Sepp Blatter had left the stage, he's rushed back on, unable to live away from the spotlight. Blatter's lust for power is quite something. The Fifa president just won't accept he has done anything wrong.
The boxing website, badlefthook.com, had it right with their take on Adrien Broner after he lost his weekend prime time, welterweight contest in Las Vegas to Shawn Porter, and with it, all the respect that had been slipping away from him as a fighter.
It's not a question that's often asked, but have West Ham clinched the deal of the summer?
There are still four days until the new Irish League fixture lists are revealed but, for a select band of fans, it's today when the fun really starts.
Frank Lampard was in Dundonald this week. Just in case Glentoran fans get any ideas, the ex-England star was not in the area to sign for Eddie Patterson's team (though he probably digs the Oval outfit's groovy new strip)!
It's always amazing the things people find to get disgruntled about when there's no games to be played but, even so, it still seemed odd to hear Gloucester Director of Rugby David Humphreys forced to defend his decision to bring Jonny Bell on to his coaching staff.
Events at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday night were pure hectic.
After the excitement of the weekend's Euro 2016 qualifiers, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that the European Games were in full swing in Azerbaijan.
For as long as I've known the Irish League it was been attacked, ridiculed and a few observers wouldn't lose any sleep if it disappeared.
Northern Ireland's preparations for their big Euro 2016 showdown with Romania at Windsor Park on Saturday couldn't have been more bizarre.
The trick when listening to managers and players is to identify when they are saying something for calculated effect.
Golf can be a lonely sport when things aren’t going your way, but Tiger Woods suffered through a special kind of isolation at the Memorial on Sunday.
As the famous saying goes, in order to be the best you have to beat the best. But as time moves on and we become obsessed with ever-changing modern technology and medical research, is that ever really possible?
Frankie Dettori can join Ulster legend Tony McCoy as a true horse racing great this weekend - but for very different reasons.
Sir Bradley Wiggins is expected to comfortably surpass the UCI Hour Record on Sunday evening but perhaps more important than the number of laps of the velodrome made by the 2012 Tour de France winner is the star power he brings to the once iconic feat.
The following are some quotes from a sporting figure yesterday on the practice of goading your opponent. Please read carefully.
It's one of sport's most famous phrases - form is temporary, class is permanent. And no-one epitomises the old saying more than Andrea Pirlo.
Recently becoming a parent presented me with many, many life-changing epiphanies, but it is an ill wind that doesn’t blow some good.
Everything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn't end. If proof was ever needed, the souring of the 25 year love affair between the Milk Cup and Man United is testament to the truth of the saying.
When you're a coach or a manager and things haven't gone as you'd hoped or expected you can do one of two things:
You've got to admire the optimism of the Football Association’s new chief executive.
With another Danske Bank Premiership campaign done and dusted, managers, players and supporters are assessing where it went right and wrong.
There's a series on ITV4 at the minute called 'The Football Mavericks.'
Surprise, surprise. So there won’t be an all-Spanish European Champions League final for the second year in succession. Even so, the theorists will still insist that the Spanish model is the one clubs and leagues throughout Europe must aspire to. Chance would be a fine thing.
Jim Magilton made a good living out of football by being able to keep possession. He had other qualities too, like awareness, touch and an ability to score the odd cracking goal, but more than anything the midfielder's game was built around passing. Long and short.
We're on the grid for another North West 200 week. The big bikes are throttling up for first practice around the iconic Portrush-Portstewart-Coleraine triangle course tomorrow, while the seaside towns gear up for the influx of tens of thousands of fans from home and abroad for the area's biggest earner of the year.
I'm not sure when exactly it happened, but there is no doubting that the Setanta Cup has totally lost its lustre.
Sporting facts you may not know, number 57: Rory Best is a big Middlesbrough fan.
Jimmy White this week offered the starkest of warnings to aspiring sports stars to ‘do as I say, not as I do’.
If you sat up for the charade that was Mayweather-Pacquiao, chances are the figures on show had your head spinning. With a reported purse of $300 million, it’s only natural to think what you could do with that kind of capital.
It's semi-final time in the Champions League. No English teams, but no worries. There is more than enough quality to keep us interested and entertained tonight, tomorrow and next week.
Nigel Pearson in press conferences. Discuss. If you don't know who he is, he would probably call you an ostrich.
I found myself watching Fermanagh v Armagh on Saturday — which is a tough penance at the best of times — and just realised the utter pointlessness of such a match.
It was with inevitable irony that Irish League football would produce one of its most intriguing ever seasons right on the eve of the Northern Ireland Football League's implementation of new structures to heighten 'excitement' in the game.
William Murphy retires from the Irish League tomorrow. Winkie, as everyone in local football knows him, will go down as one of the greats.
This season's William Hill Scottish Cup final is likely to have all the glitz and glamour of a wet weekend in Stranraer thanks to a referee, his less than eagle-eyed assistant and the intransigence of football's ruling godfathers to bring us kicking and screaming into the bright new world.
Sometimes, when you witness the public relations car crash of their handling of the Windsor Park and Irish Cup Final twin crises, you'd be forgiven for thinking that football in Northern Ireland flourishes in spite of rather than because of the dear, old Irish FA.
What does coaching mean to you? A fairly open-ended question, admittedly, but there is a broad consensus that soccer coaching on these islands is not on a par with that of the sophisticated continentals.
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