• Borussia Dortmund’s season has yet to explode into life and Kian David Griffin rubs salt in the wounds:

That’s the most exciting news they’ve had this season…

• Cormac reckons he might know why Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia turned up for spring training weighing 22 stone:

Did he take up Darts during the break?

• With the 2022 World Cup in Qatar set to take place in winter, Egg Head looks on the bright side on behalf of the SSE Airtricity League:

Handy for the Irish league though, as a summer league we won’t be without all our World Cup stars from the league for a month!

Reports suggest that CC Sabathia will wear number 180 for the Yankees this season. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

• On a more serious note, some welcome positivity from Maurice ahead of the start of the new domestic season next weekend:

Was at my 1st LOI game last year and was generally impressed at the quality. To any of the smart arses out there ready at their keyboards, it obviously wasn’t PL standard but from the tosh you hear and read spouted about the terrible standards, I have to disagree. Would advise anyone to take it in at the weekends if they can. Well worth it. 

• Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will finally meet in a welterweight bout in May, but with a new belt being made especially for the fight, Eoghan Ryan suggests an appropriate title:

Wealthy weight..

• After footage of a couple having sex on Charlton Athletic’s pitch at The Valley emerged this week, robby rottenest commended the club for a unique method of trying to find the stars of the future:

Don’t buy players, make them.

Will Manny Pacquiao beat Floyd Mayweather to the 'WealthyWeight' world title? AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

Some snappy camera-themed humour from Keaneland:

I take it he won’t Gopro

• For the first time in his life, question marks over Fabio Cannavaro’s defensive capabilities — from bacoxy:

He must have had a poor defence!

• Another World Cup win for our cricketers this week and Sandra Turner had a message for the ICC:

It was a great game, be terrible to see this kind of game leaving cricket because the powers that be want to reduce the numbers who qualify for the World Cup. COME ON YOU BOYS IN GREEN!

• Cian Healy starts on the bench again on Sunday against England, but Dave Murray has an interesting suggestion to maximise his impact when he’s introduced:

Start him on the bench, then annoy the crap out of him in the dugout (brave man to do that though) by poking and prodding him till he nearly snaps and then unleash him on the English :) 

Place on bench. Poke with stick. Unleash against Englishmen. Dan Sheridan / INPHO Dan Sheridan / INPHO / INPHO

• Shaun O’ Higgins is clearly a Championship Manager veteran:

Quiz is a great tribute to champ manager , retook the quiz as soon as I got a result I don’t like… 

• David Jackman was taken aback by All Blacks legend Wayne Shelford’s swift recovery from a torn scrotum in a 1986 game against France:

Stitched up his sack and went back for more? Jesus! 

Dundalk captain Stephen O’Donnell plays down fresh injury concerns

11 Ireland v England battles that will be settled once and for all this Sunday