Throughout 2015 we will be taking a closer than ever look at what is happening in sport around the world and how that can impact on what we do here in Ireland.
Each Monday we will have a letter from America highlighting one or more trends or stories to emerge from the USA over the previous seven days.
US Sport is often seen as unique within its borders. The weekend Wild Card winners in the NFL hailed from nowhere more exotic than Baltimore, Dallas, Indianapolis and Carolina. But that does not make the way it conducts sport, and the business around it any less relevant.
The work which Major League Baseball undertook with regard to broad last rights created a template which was followed here last year by the GAA and RTÉ Digital in the creation of GAAGo.
To get things started though, and to see how prominent US writers view the world of sport from Rugby to Royal Ascot and Mexican Soccer to Marbles we want to share this 2015 look ahead from the sportswriters of the New York Times.
