THE ramifications for Hearts from next weekend’s Scottish Cup semi-final with Hibernian stretch far beyond an extension of the city bragging rights.

WHEN Craig Gordon thinks about Marius Zaliukas he remembers a Lithuanian with barely any English who would grow into a Scottish Cup-winning captain.

THIS was an afternoon that threw up more questions than answers.

LIKE any bride-to-be, Jojo Calderwood woke up on her wedding day with a stomach going like a tumble drier. The good thing, though, was that for once those nerves did not mean she was going to get punched in the face.

FOR all those athletes who were left frustrated as the pandemic wiped out much of the sporting landscape, there is a smattering for whom seeing their rivals effectively frozen in time worked in their favour. Callen McAulay is in that latter camp.

SCOTLAND need Josh Davey to continue to be as deadly with a cricket ball in his hand as he is with a rifle.

A LOT has happened since Jordan Buesa last pulled on the skates as a Clan player.

IT was during his ascent of Mount Parthenion in the dead of night, around two-thirds of the way through the 153-mile slog from Athens to Sparta, that Al Higgins began to wonder if it was time to get a new kitchen.

SOME captains inspire through actions rather than words and so it was with Benjamin Siegrist on Saturday.

THIS was a first positive step from Kilmarnock towards their rehabilitation. Relegated out of the Premiership amid acrimony and recriminations, Tommy Wright’s new-look team got their Premier Sports Cup campaign off to a winning start.