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What the US can learn from hurling, the world's best sport

It's not the rules that confuse us

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Brendan Dentino
Sep 07, 2025
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Tipperary v Cork player ratings: John McGrath enjoys probably his greatest half in a Tipp jersey
(Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile)

Two hungover Americans walk into an Irish pub in Prague and watch the hurling. This isn’t the start of a joke. This is how I discovered the most exciting and confounding sport in the world. 

With half his body jammed in a closet where the controls were, and the other half turned toward the TVs on the wall, the proprietor bou…

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