Tag: Kansas City Chiefs
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High fielding is a multi-sport art
Do you remember when, in GAA, the National Leagues used to be used to trial experimental rules? Many of which would, eventually, make it onto the set menu of playing rules. Stipulations such as the introduction of red and yellow cards, the taking of frees sideline balls from the hand, several incarnations of the Sin…
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Assuming the limelight in the afterglow of Brady’s brilliance
Whether Colm O’Rourke made a formal announcement regarding his retirement from inter county GAA cannot be recalled. There was definitely activity in the media the following year when rumours of a comeback began to swirl. Either way, feelings in this seat were of tremendous sadness. An era was ending. Of course, the disappointment from a…
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Master still holds sway as great story rumbles on
One of the great things about having a life centred around sport is that sometimes all is not what it seems to be. For example, Leitrim shouldn’t win the Connacht Senior Football Championship – on perceived rank and status within GAA – but in 1994 it happened. Indeed, the people of that great county have…
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New Brady bunch, same outcome
The two greatest things derived from reading Con Houlihan’s mesmeric meanderings were a vastly increased vocabulary and an ability to scribe on a much broader range of subject matter. Or, to be more accurate, having the confidence to do so. Now read on… Baseball and ice hockey remain as the two bridges that have never…