Davies steals the golfing weekIt was a week of dynamic phenomena, ejected matter and ionised plasma swirling around in the sun's shooting coronaMon Aug 16 1999 - 01:00
Baize battlesChief Executives at the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) could be forgiven recently for being fatalistic…Sat Aug 14 1999 - 01:00
Sports Speak - Quotes of week"Ireland is considered backwards internationally in terms of drug testing."Sat Aug 14 1999 - 01:00
Jockey fallsJockey Darryll Holland (above) appears to have gotten a roasting from trainer Mark Johnston because he had taken too much on …Sat Aug 14 1999 - 01:00
Age handicapWhat with the US PGA on this weekend, some of you may have polished up the clubs with dreams of turning that bit of usefulness…Sat Aug 14 1999 - 01:00
Hickey raises testing delaysThe Government and the Irish Sports Council (ISC) were the targets for severe criticism at a meeting yesterday between the Olympic…Fri Aug 13 1999 - 01:00
Bad wind blows at the BBCCaught Sailworld by mistake on Eurosport on Thursday. Just had to look in and see all that wealthMon Aug 09 1999 - 01:00
Smooth Ulster machine sweep Connacht asideThe sun on their backs, Galway Bay in the background and Ulster made hayMon Aug 09 1999 - 01:00
Giving them the slipThey say you haven't got a dog's chance of tackling a charging All Black if he is wearing one of the tight-fitting lycra bodysuits…Sat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
Sports Speak: The Week In Quotes"He has two years left in his contract and I expect him to play with Leeds for the duration of that agreement."Sat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
Upmarket AberdeenBritish Open winner Paul Lawrie is fortunate to live in AberdeenSat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
Winning formulaBernie Ecclestone, the man who controls formula One racing, is once again demonstrating why he is one of the richest men in sport…Sat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
End of an eraIrish Rugby League selectors have decided to axe Shaun Edwards, perhaps bringing to a close the career of one of the game's best…Sat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
Small crowd, big moneyAthletics tried it and it failed with Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson running against each other in the Toronto Sky Dome for…Sat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
Rice keeps a cool head to master conditionsFrom Caddy to champion all in the space of a weekTue Aug 03 1999 - 01:00
Coughing up the truth on tobaccoThere was something disturbing about BBC presenter Michael Buerk sitting there in his hopelessly inadequate hospital pinafore…Mon Aug 02 1999 - 01:00
Threeball play themselves to top of the leaderboardPortmarnock's Paul Byrne surrendered nine shots between his morning and afternoon rounds yesterday in the Mullingar Friends First…Mon Aug 02 1999 - 01:00
Sports Speak: The week in quotes"I'm going to leave it to the new generation, to the crash-it-up robots that dominate the game."Sat Jul 31 1999 - 01:00
Lapping it upAppreciating that Swim Ireland are anxious to start off on a good footing, is it not unusual that the Irish National Championships…Sat Jul 31 1999 - 01:00
Among royaltyWhat exalted company our illustrious Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) president Pat Hickey is keepingSat Jul 31 1999 - 01:00
Having a ballThe ball Greg Norman used to win his first British Open in 1986 has been sold in Australia for US $13,000 at a charity auction…Sat Jul 31 1999 - 01:00
Geordie justiceNewcastle United have sacked a 17-year-old apprentice who tested positive for heroin last seasonSat Jul 31 1999 - 01:00
Millennium racesNext year's list of Irish race meetings carries an interesting fixture on January 1st which will, uniquely, make Tramore the …Sat Jul 31 1999 - 01:00
Money for all as sponsors pay upThe golf correspondent of this newspaper, Dermot Gilleece, once asked International Management Group (IMG) boss Mark McCormack…Thu Jul 29 1999 - 01:00
De Bruin threatens legal actionIn another wrangle involving Ireland's triple Olympic gold medallist, the new governing body for swimming, Swim Ireland, could…Tue Jul 27 1999 - 01:00
Price of historyWhat price history? Mark McGwire's record for the most home runs in a season left a lot of little people quite rich and others…Sat Jul 24 1999 - 01:00
Trophy honours CarrollThe 20th running of the Dublin City marathon on October 25th will be marked by the introduction of the Noel Carroll Perpetual…Wed Jul 21 1999 - 01:00
Neptune make it five in a rowIt would have been something a seismic shock had anything other than a Neptune win in the men's senior eights occurred at the…Mon Jul 19 1999 - 01:00
Self-supporting soccer starWhen Brandi Chastain whipped off the top half of her kit after scoring the winner for the United States in the women's World …Sat Jul 17 1999 - 01:00
Wood set to returnGarryowen's hopes of having Irish hooker Keith Wood back in Limerick next season will depend on ongoing discussions with the …Sat Jul 17 1999 - 01:00
De Bruin records to be omittedThe 36 Irish records currently held by Michelle de Bruin will not be acceptable to Swim Ireland, the new governing body for the…Sat Jul 17 1999 - 01:00
50-metre pool to be ready by next yearAfter years of debate and disagreement with various sports ministers, it was announced yesterday that Ireland's first 50-metre…Thu Jul 15 1999 - 01:00
Sampras joins the greatsWe were given a glimpse of Andre Agassi yesterday after Peter Sampras out-punched him, out-ran him, out-served him and played…Mon Jul 05 1999 - 01:00
Graf bids farewell to WimbledonWhen Steffi Graf walked into the post-match interview after playing her 31st Grand Slam final, no one had envisaged that her …Mon Jul 05 1999 - 01:00
Yankee pair do the doubleTwo weeks of tennis and seven rounds of matches and it ended with a Californian smile from new Wimbledon ladies singles champion…Mon Jul 05 1999 - 01:00
Shy Davenport strides confidently to centre stageFinally Lindsay Davenport emerged from the shadows to take her place in the sunMon Jul 05 1999 - 01:00
Buoyant Stevenson dazzles DokicAll singing, all dancing, all conquering Alexandra Stevenson twinkled into the Wimbledon semi-finals yesterday with flapping …Sat Jul 03 1999 - 01:00
Nugent's odyssey endsIreland's Stephen Nugent finally bowed out of the Wimbledon junior event yesterday, but not without making a lasting impression…Sat Jul 03 1999 - 01:00
Devastating Agassi on course to `do a Borg'At one stage it looked like a scene from the television show ERSat Jul 03 1999 - 01:00
Schedule in tatters as rain stops playThe former England football manager, Glen Hoddle, was lodged in the crowd yesterday looking like he'd been taking the stuff that…Fri Jul 02 1999 - 01:00
Graf holds nerve in lengthy rain danceSteffi Graf and Venus Williams came out to play their quarter-final match at noonFri Jul 02 1999 - 01:00
Henman volleys out of this world"Tim - alien abduction." Jim Courier knows how to feed headlines to the tabloidsThu Jul 01 1999 - 01:00
Mum's protection racketIf all the talk about their parents is true, Alexandra Stevenson's quarter-final match against 16-year-old Jelena Dokic will …Thu Jul 01 1999 - 01:00
Nugent eases past BrooksAnother performance full of confidence and verve earned Ireland's Stephen Nugent a place in the third round of the junior competition…Thu Jul 01 1999 - 01:00
No stopping WilliamsBoris Becker put a moment aside yesterday to point out that Venus Williams would some day become the best women's player in the…Thu Jul 01 1999 - 01:00
No play as clouds openEven the most optimistic spectators could tell yesterday that the skies were never going to clearWed Jun 30 1999 - 01:00
Davenport prepares for high jinksThe virtually invisible number three seed Lindsay Davenport yesterday advanced to the quarter-finalsTue Jun 29 1999 - 01:00
Agassi dodges hold-upsThey loved it the first time. Even gave it a Mexican wave. Second time so, so. Third time ughhTue Jun 29 1999 - 01:00
Ultimate test for ArthursAndre Agassi will probably have heard the drum beat around the locker room about the half Irishman who has not dropped a serve…Mon Jun 28 1999 - 01:00
