Moreover, insider trading laws imbalance markets by effectively regulating only one-half of the trading equation.

FORBES: It's Time To Legalize Insider Trading

There is the false concept of the football student-athlete that the NCAA endlessly tries to sell, when any major college player will tell you that the demands of the game, a year-round commitment, makes the student half of the equation secondary and superfluous.

WSJ: Buzz Bissinger: Why College Football Should Be Banned

On a brighter note for the Irish, scrum-half Tomas O'Leary may come back into the equation for the Wales game having missed the victory over Scotland with a back problem.

BBC: Stephen Ferris

Of course, the rider is only half of the equation, and Funnell will not be competing with her best-known horse, Supreme Rock, who is injured.

BBC: Confident Funnell heads for Punchestown