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Baseball’s debt to a Gaelic game: learning about the GAA during the ALCS (IrishCentral)

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 01:50:10 PDT

How do say “Play Ball!” in Irish?With the long baseball season finally segueing into the playoffs, I was using the time between pitches, while the batter wanders around adjusting himself, to wander around online, and just as the batter stepped back out of the box to start the adjustment process all over again, I surfed onto this internet factoid: “Baseball was probably derived from Rounders, a game played in Ireland since the fifteenth century” I hate to admit it, but this was news to me…but not of course to the GAAThis revelation came from a HuffingtonPostcom slideshow entitled “US History: 13 Myth-Busting Facts That Will Make You Rethink Everything You Know,” written by three guys from the endlessly diverting Mental Floss website (http://www READ MORE

Secretariat a winner for gloomy Americans today, just like in 1974 (IrishCentral)

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 05:45:07 PDT

If you want a feel good movie in your life "Secretariat" is the one to seeBig Red as he was known, cheered up a generation of horse goers and ordinary Americans when he ran away with the Triple Crown in 1974Monty Roberts, the horse whisperer once said that the "outside of a horse does good for the inside of a man"Thus it is with Secretariat, a story of a horse who transformed the horse racing world with his brillianceThe back story of how the owner lost a coin toss and still ended up with Secretariat then had to fight to keep him when hard times hit is heartwarming READ MORE

Ex-Irish jockey,Tom Foley will star alongside John Malkovich 'Secretariat' - SEE VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:03:35 PDT

By: CAHIR DOHERTY

When Irish jockey Thomas Foley immigrated to the U.S. in 1997 at the age of 17 his dream was to become a professional jockey, but he soon found out the world of professional horse racing is no place for dreamers. Next month he’ll launch his autobiography and appear alongside screen legend John Malkovich in Disney’s big budget horse racing film Secretariat. He talks to CAHIR O’DOHERTY about his journey to the abyss and back.