Street fighter Bernard Hopkins continues to defy expectationsOn Saturday the ex-con from North Philly will fight for the 65th and final time, aged 51Thu Dec 15 2016 - 16:56
America at Large: high school football deaths not often invokedBrain damage from tackling by high school players is not incidental, it is inevitableWed Dec 07 2016 - 20:00
America at Large: The high-wire life of the NFL kickerBlair Walsh the latest to discover you can be one poor attempt away from the sackWed Nov 30 2016 - 18:52
America at Large: Klinsmann’s dream ends in nightmareUS soccer failed to attain the self identity it craves under former German managerWed Nov 23 2016 - 22:00
America at Large: Decline NFL ratings continues to puzzle stakeholdersMost powerful ratings juggernaut in American sport has mysteriously slowed downThu Nov 17 2016 - 17:16
Conor McGregor remains most valuable asset in UFC’s short historyThe Dubliner’s New York history-making was more of a coronation than a real contestSun Nov 13 2016 - 18:21
Conor McGregor makes UFC history at Madison Square GardenDubliner becomes first person in UFC history to hold two world title belts at same timeSun Nov 13 2016 - 07:20
UFC’s crazy trip to Conor McGregor headline show in Madison Square GardenSaturday night’s New York card shows how far the sport has travelled this last 20 yearsWed Nov 09 2016 - 20:00
America at Large: Morality in short supply at college where God and football rulesArt Briles unlikely to coach again as sexual assault scandal engulfs West Texas collegeWed Nov 02 2016 - 17:03
Bill ‘Spaceman’ Lee still marching to sound of a different drumFormer Boston Red Sox hero presents his alternative world view to Vermont electorateWed Oct 26 2016 - 16:45
America at Large: Story of Sonny Liston’s death makes good readingFormer heavyweight world champion boxer left questions that will remain unansweredWed Oct 19 2016 - 18:13
America at Large: Trump’s campaign resembling WWE buffooneryThe US presidential candidate has already been inducted into the sport’s Hall of FameWed Oct 12 2016 - 20:00
America at Large: Joakim Noah’s pacifist stance greeted by jingoistic hysteriaBut New York Knicks player backs up his rhetoric with actions in troubled ChigagoWed Oct 05 2016 - 18:36
Dave Hannigan: American audiences far from captivated by Ryder CupClash between USA and Europe far down the list of priorities for general sports fansWed Sept 28 2016 - 16:31
America at Large: W P Kinsella's body of baseball literatureCanadian author exquisitely captured game’s brew of nostalgia, ritual and romanceWed Sept 21 2016 - 20:32
America at Large: Tim Tebow the latest to make bizarre move to MLBFormer NFL quarter-back has signed for the New York Mets in a move raising eyebrowsWed Sept 14 2016 - 17:33
Drama in the Bahamas: When Ali floated like an anchor and stung like a mothIn an extract from his new book Dave Hannigan details Muhammad Ali’s last fightSat Sept 10 2016 - 06:00
From riches to rags: How NFL fairytale often ends in debtors’ courtAverage careers last just over three seasons meaning healthy wages often don’t lastWed Sept 07 2016 - 20:13
America at Large: US soccer finds time apt to dispense with Hope SoloOther factors in play as long-serving goalkeeper subjected to draconian punishmentWed Aug 31 2016 - 18:00
America at Large: Criminality runs deep in college sportsMore than 1,300 college footballers have been arrested since 2010Wed Aug 24 2016 - 20:18
Dave Hannigan: Are Conor McGregor’s WWE rants part of calculated plan?Irishman’s UFC career has always had more than a touch of the Ric Flairs about itWed Aug 17 2016 - 14:12
Dave Hannigan: Sinister story lies hidden beneath a sport that enthrals AmericaUSA Gymnastics coming under the spotlight for ignoring sex abuse allegationsWed Aug 10 2016 - 19:58
America at Large: Bizarre coda to Olympian Jim Thorpe’s epic lifeNative American’s sons and tribe still seeking to bring him home to a fitting resting placeWed Aug 03 2016 - 16:30
The Tipperary-born New York gangster behind America’s oldest race trackJohn Morrissey was, among many things, America’s bareknuckle boxing championWed Jul 20 2016 - 21:00
America at Large: Lenny Dykstra’s tall tale fails to nail key issuesFormer baseball star’s recounting of his colourful life leaves some gaping holesWed Jul 13 2016 - 20:42
America at Large: Youth soccer mostly about milking the cash cowsMost families can expect little change out of $7,000 for their nine-year-old to play gameWed Jul 06 2016 - 16:17
America at Large: Trump crossed line early with foray into gridironUS presidential candidate’s move into pro sport largely an attention-seeking exerciseWed Jun 29 2016 - 19:03
America at Large: Cannabis use high on NFL agendaRather than using presciption painkillers many are now advocating marijuanaWed Jun 22 2016 - 16:28
Dave Hannigan: Writing about Ali is like entering a rabbit holeSuch is wealth of material you never know what gems the journey has in storeWed Jun 08 2016 - 17:29
The unlikely triumvirate that brought Ali to Croke ParkThe fascinating story behind Muhammad Ali’s fight against Al ‘Blue’ Lewis in DublinSun Jun 05 2016 - 11:58
Muhammad Ali: The greatest – in and out of the ringBoxing legend was one of world’s most-loved sportsmenSat Jun 04 2016 - 07:39
Dave Hannigan: LeBron James aiming to lead Cleveland to gloryCavaliers face a best-of-seven NBA series with current holders Golden State WarriorsWed Jun 01 2016 - 16:35
New York City FC embarrass themselves on and off the pitch as Frank Lampard laboursDefeat to Red Bulls reflective of crass marketing attempts that do MLS no favoursWed May 25 2016 - 15:53
Deluded Penn State fans and alumni still defend Joe PaternoRefusal to accept their hero did anything wrong by not reporting child molester Jerry Sandusky to policeWed May 11 2016 - 18:02
America At Large: Deadhead Bill Walton thinks outside boxBastketball great’s musing makes for compelling television entertainmentWed May 04 2016 - 19:10
What Conor McGregor and Donald Trump have in common . . . And it ain’t prettyNew Yorker born into riches and former apprentice appeal to same demographicWed Apr 27 2016 - 18:22
America at Large: Battle on to rid baseball of tobacco-chewing scourgeAmerican municipalities now starting to outlaw the vile habit from sports venuesWed Apr 20 2016 - 20:25
America at Large: Concussion dangers hitting home in NFLNumerous big-name players are taking matters into own hands and quitting gameWed Apr 13 2016 - 16:25
America at Large: Augusta’s glamour disguises a grim realityThe Masters aside, this is a city of meth labs and pawn shops, strip joints and gang cultureWed Apr 06 2016 - 16:35
America at Large: Vin Scully’s lilt a soundtrack to a bygone ageThe voice of baseball’s LA Dodgers will call time on his commentary career at the end of this seasonWed Mar 30 2016 - 21:30
US sports stars play their Donald Trump cardDave Hannigan’s America at Large: John Daly the latest to row in behind presidential candidateWed Mar 23 2016 - 16:51
Peyton Manning’s storybook ending to the NFL not all it seemsTawdry allegations and crass commercialisation made this a strange farewellWed Mar 09 2016 - 16:50
America at Large: MLS still the home of overpaid has-beensPirlo shows why real progress is difficult to quantify for US soccer leagueWed Mar 02 2016 - 21:00
America At Large: Sports Pope/Dope – a mix of Dunphy, Clarkson and PartridgeMike Francesa, New York’s most popular sports talk show host, is bowing outWed Feb 24 2016 - 22:00
America at Large: Rio coronation expected for gymnast Simone BilesThe coming Olympics will showcase the talent of perhaps the best gymnast ever seenWed Feb 17 2016 - 22:14
America At Large: Spectre of concussion raised in sport of thrills and spillsSuicide of BMX icon Dave Mirra has called into question attitude towards safety in sportWed Feb 10 2016 - 22:00
Dave Hannigan: America shows true colours in case against NewtonTreatment of NFL’s most exhilarating quarterback is a window into race relations in USThu Feb 04 2016 - 01:26
Dave Hannigan: Bernie Sanders puts sport in proper perspectiveUS presidential candidate’s democratic socialism has its roots in sport of his childhoodWed Jan 27 2016 - 22:00
Dave Hannigan: Epitaph of streetfighter who left Ali needing 10 stitchesTroubled Florida contender Jeff Sims couldn’t keep dodging the bulletsWed Jan 20 2016 - 22:29
America at Large: Sceptics line up as ‘Moneyball’ mould-breaker tackles NFLPaul DePodesta expected to be nothing less than saviour at struggling Cleveland BrownsWed Jan 13 2016 - 22:04
