Sport (mostly baseball)

Baseball is on the way back, a new season is just around the corner and already the questions of who are the better team in the Bay Area are circling. Oakland may have Manny but the Giants have a pitching staff that a lot of teams only dream of. I’ve been constantly watching and cheering [...]

Last night, thanks to my little sister, I had the great honour of going to see Dublin and Kerry kick off their National League campaigns in Croke Park, Premium Level no less. Kerry had an unbelievable amount of wides but still managed to wrecked the All Ireland Champions’ day with a 1-14 to 0-11 win. [...]

Lately it seems like the GAA have been looking MLB and NFL and how they run activities on match days, there have been stilt walkers and lifesize furry mascots getting photos taken with kids, music on match day and a chance to get your photo taken with either the Sam Maguire or the Liam McCarthy [...]

I love baseball! I got hooked when I spent a summer as an insomniac unable to sleep til 7am every morning. As San Francisco is such a fantastic place (yes I want to live there), I adopted the Giants. First thing I do every morning, if I haven’t seen or heard the previous night’s game, [...]

Imagine, it was twenty years ago today when Kevin Foley scored a goal and David Beggy slotted over a point to end the now infamous Meath Vs Dublin saga of 1991. Over four games the two teams played for five hours and forty minutes and 237,000 people attended the games. This was just a preliminary [...]

San Francisco Giants. This year’s All Star Game takes place on July 12 at Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona, where as a side note, there is also a Gaelic Football Club. Anyway, this year’s representatives from the Giants are all from the pitching staff and feature Brian Wilson (the ultimate sports star), Matt Cain (who I’m [...]

The trailer for Moneyball has just been released. If you’re not a baseball fan, Moneyball is based on the book ‘Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game’ by Michael M. Lewis. Brad Pitt plays Oakland Athletics’ manager Billy Beane who picks his by computer analysis rather than scouts, all cos the A’s are broke [...]