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“I was kind of in a daze and confused when it happened,” said Jonathan Byrd, regarding his hole-in-one that ended the playoff of the Justin Timberlake Shriner’s Hospital for Children Open on Sunday. “I didn’t see it go in and then didn’t know really how to react to it. I’m still kind of dazed and confused now taking a red eye home and reuniting with my family...
Published: October 27, 2010
Roger Federer’s “sore loser” remarks, as well as his left-handed compliments to Nadal describing him as a great clay courter, have been well-documented and decried. Now, we have his latest innuendos about slowing down of surfaces. Before the US Open, Federer remarked that the fast courts at Flushing Meadows might prove to be a challenge for Rafa. He hinted that the courts...
Published: October 26, 2010
Tall, muscular and full of potential can be used to describe PGA Tour professional Adam Scott. Now that he’s married, what about his golf game? When the UNLV graduate became a pro in 2000, the 20-year-old Australian was widely considered as the next Tiger Woods. Even though he has won at least one tournament per year since then, after a horrible 2009 stint where he missed 10 cuts—including...
Published: October 26, 2010
(Oct. 26, 2010) Staring down a 0-4 deficit minutes into her opening WTA Championships round-robin match, Samantha Stosur couldn’t quite get a grip on her game. Then Stosur found the range on her sledgehammer serve and forcing forehand to take charge. In a French Open final rematch, Stosur reeled off six straight games to register a 6-4, 6-4 win over Roland Garros champion Francesca...
Published: October 26, 2010
Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately. With his contract at Old Trafford settled, Rooney can now put his full concentration back on the football pitch. Rooney has been in the middle of some of the worst form of his career, but he is one of the best strikers in the world when he is in good form, and is the biggest threat both Manchester...
Published: October 26, 2010
In the past two years alone, we have seen the emergence of a World Golf Championship in China, a PGA Tour sanctioned event in Malaysia and 12 of the top-20 players in the world coming from outside of the United States. Eight of the last 12 major championships, including three of the last four, have been won by international players One might assume that Greg Norman’s vision of a world Golf...
Published: October 26, 2010
Red Bull Racing began the inaugural Korean Grand Prix in an emphatic manner, with Mark Webber topping the timesheets in Practice 2 on Friday. In qualifying, Red Bull increased their odds of a race win with Sebastian Vettel leading his teammate in a one-two for the fourth time this season. The who’s who of Formula One, including Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso pronounced Red Bull as favorites...
Published: October 26, 2010
When people think of Los Galácticos of Real Madrid, they typically rattle off the names of Zidane, Raúl, Ronaldo, Figo or Roberto Carlos before mentioning the MVP of that era, Claude Makélelé. When Spain won the Euro 2008, it was Marcos Senna who enabled Xavi to be the player of the tournament. Since the arrival of Sergio Busquets, FC Barcelona and Spain...
Published: October 26, 2010
Earlier today, FIFA released it’s annual list of the possible contenders for it’s year-end player of the year award. In no particular order, here are the 23 tabbed by FIFA this year: Casillas (Spain), David Villa (Spain), Iniesta (Spain), Xavi (Spain), Puyol (Spain), Xabi Alonso (Spain), Fabregas (Spain), Ozil (Germany), Muller (Germany), Scheinsteger (Germany), Lahm (Germany),...
Published: October 26, 2010
Last week we learnt that the All Black selectors would be announcing the 15 men who would start the first test of their end-of-year tour on Thursday, rather than on Tuesday as we have come to expect. This leaves who will start up for debate, and it still remains rather unclear as to who will take to the paddock in Hong Kong on Saturday night. It can almost be assumed that the selectors will name their...