Sport
Gaelic football, Notre Dame, boxing and baseball through a Celtic lens.
Sports talk: Goblins influence college football strategy at times
A Halloween-season column on blowouts, poll politics and the goblin on the winning coach's shoulder, written the autumn Bobby Bowden apologised to Duke.
Notre Dame: Bloodied but unbowed
After the shock loss to Northwestern in September 1995, guard Ryan Leahy, grandson of coach Frank Leahy, carried a family name into a season that needed rescuing.
Divulging Gaelic football's fine points: Game enjoys popularity on both sides of Atlantic
A 1995 primer for American readers on the rules of Gaelic football, written days before Dublin met Tyrone in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park.
Baseball in critical condition with fans
Five months after the 1994-95 strike ended, a columnist weighed millionaire players against a coal-dirt lot called the Dairy Field and picked the lot.
Sportstalk: Irish fighter won't dent rusty Iron Mike
Our sports columnist sized up Peter “Hurricane” McNeeley, the Irish Catholic heavyweight from Massachusetts picked for Mike Tyson’s 1995 comeback, and did not like his chances.
Kelly: Great QB and humanitarian
On the eve of the 1995 season, a salute to Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly for his late-game comebacks and his charity work in western New York.