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Last season, a new era in Formula One was ushered in. Gone was the sole reliance on megabuck manufacturers dominating the sport and the necessity for sprawling factories housing hundreds upon hundreds of employees. If this new era of resource restriction could be explained in a single word, it would be competitive. The fascinating contrast through 2009 was indeed the racing, off the track even more...
Published: November 9, 2010
With the conclusion of the WTA Championships at Doha and the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions at Bali, 2010 women’s tennis season is officially over. What a truly eventful season this has been! It began with Justine Henin coming back from her retirement and ended with Elena Dementieva calling it a career. It saw the young Dane Caroline Wozniacki fulfilling her potential and ending the...
Published: November 9, 2010
Always one of the best events of the year, and with so much for several drivers to lose, the action at Interlagos this weekend was nothing short of relentless. Perhaps the biggest spanner in the works for the title fighters, besides the rainy qualifying session on Saturday, was the Williams rookie Hulkenburg taking pole position by over a second from the Red Bull’s. This was surely...
Published: November 9, 2010
It was the great Margaret Court who dominated Ladies tennis prior to the ‘open era’ back in the sixties, but she was soon forgotten as Ladies tennis became far more competitive once prize money (and lots of it) became available. The seventies and eighties was shared almost ‘down the middle’ between two legends of the womens game, Chris Evert from the USA and Martina Navratilova,...
Published: November 9, 2010
Kathy Bissell The Great and Powerful Oz of the World Golf Rankings has finally spoken. Ian Baker of the European Tour, who calculates the rankings weekly, answered criticism by Butch Harmon, who insisted Martin Kaymer deserved to be No 1, not Lee Westwood. “If we just prepared it on the points won so far this year, Woods would not be in the top 50 and Martin Kaymer would be comfortably...
Published: November 9, 2010
If you’re a Red Bull Racing engineer, crew member or even the person charged with sweeping the shop floor, then you’re probably nursing a pretty big hangover as I write this—maybe even waking up next to a charming Red Bull beauty. And rightfully so, because that is how the 2010 Formula 1 Constructors’ Champions should celebrate. If you’re Mark Webber or Sebastian...
Published: November 9, 2010
Diego Armando Maradona may be visiting Iran soon, according to the Abbas Torabian, who is the head of the Iranian Football Federation International Committee. The possible visit comes in the light of rumors (which have been denied) of Maradona coaching the Iranian national football team in the future. The president of the Iranian National Football Federation, Ali Kashaffian, has been denying the rumors...
Published: November 8, 2010
We all know about Rafael Nadal’s great tennis attributes. He’s fast, explosive, intelligent, exuberant, and mentally strong. He’s extremely fit, and contrary to what people think, a very good all-around player. However, he is also very stubborn. Although this stubbornness to never give up helps him on the tennis court, it harms him off it. Since 2004, when the young Spaniard greeted...
Published: November 8, 2010
Rafael Nadal returned to the City of Light today to announce he has no plans to pull the plug on his season. The World No. 1, who withdrew from this week’s BNP Paribas Masters minutes before the start of Friday’s draw after citing left shoulder tendinitis, said he plans to play the ATP World Tour Finals in London starting November 21. “I’m going to be practicing soon. I...
Published: November 8, 2010
With the BNP Paribas Masters getting underway today in Paris, the race for the year-end championships is at its most exciting point. Six players are still eligible for the last three spots in London. I will introduce them, along with what the outsiders looking in need to do to have a chance at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. Tomas Berdych currently sits in sixth place with 3,665...