Las Vegas is now ready. The rematch, the gloves, the ancient referee, the fear in the eyes of the bookies and other frivolous matters have kept the fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor in the news over here.
Saturday August 19, Stage 1: Team Time trial : Nimes (13.7km) With two World team time trial championship titles in the last three years, my BMC team went into this evening's race against the clock confident that if everything went right for us we would be in the shake-up for stage victory.
Brian O’Driscoll has backed Conor McGregor to return to Ireland as hero after this weekend’s showdown with Floyd Mayweather, even is beaten on his professional boxing debut in Les Vegas.
Okay, I hear you, not another bloody column on that boor Conor McGregor! You’ve seen the headlines and read his clothes (the ‘Eff You’ suit) and concur with the opinions:
So which side are you on in the big fight? Both combatants normally compete in separate arenas. Both are at the very top of their own particular game. Neither is used to losing and neither likes it. And to spice things up further you've got the age-old racial connotations of a battle between a black man and a white man in America. There are going to be fireworks.
Sometimes Hamlet can be nearly as good without the prince. Last week, Judge Carroll Moran produced a remarkable report. He managed to paint a clear picture of the inner workings of Pat Hickey's Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) without talking to Pat Hickey.
American Terence Crawford became the undisputed junior welterweight champion of the world on a night that also saw British heavyweight Dillian Whyte win his first fight on US soil.
Polo is not something you immediately associate with Ireland. "Polos?" asks one friend quizzically when I mention working on this article. "Do you mean the mints or the cars?" The sport actually, I reply, you know, the one played by posh English people.
Having arrived at the team hotel in Nimes around lunchtime on Wednesday, myself and Spanish sprinter Fran Ventoso spent much of the day on our own, while the rest of our team-mates came in dribs and drabs later that evening.
Former Tyrone underage star Conor McKenna scored his fifth goal of the season on Saturday as Essendon ran out comfortable 88-57 winners at the Metricon Stadium.
