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By Barry Janoff (Correspondent) As recently as 2008, Tiger Woods was pulling in $110 million in endorsements from companies that included Gatorade, AT&T, General Motors, Gillette and Accenture, far and away a green’s distance from the money being earned by the likes of LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Peyton Manning, David Beckham and Dale Earnhardt Jr. But when his private life became a...
Published: January 28, 2011
Jeffrey Boswell weighs in on Jay Cutler’s knee sprain, NFL labor talks, a gold-digging Mark Sanchez, a Heinz-end hump, Michael Vick’s endorsement, a potential Richard Hamilton trade, golf rankings, and Jack LaLanne. * No Pain? No Feign? — Jay Cutler is vindicated when a medical evaluation reveals he had sprained knee ligaments. A Subsequent visit to a Chicago-area OB/GYN reveals...
Published: January 28, 2011
Get the latest tennis news from www.TennisNow.com If the match-up of Saturday’s Australian Open women’s singles final looks familiar, it’s probably because the heavily-anticipated matchup has already happened once in the early days of 2011. Just 14 days ago, China’s Li Na defeated Belgium’s Kim Clijsters to win the title at Sydney, stunning...
Published: January 28, 2011
Get the latest tennis news from www.TennisNow.com The British Empire is one win away from finally breaking its Grand Slam drought. On Friday night down under, No. 5 Andy Murray put on a masterful display of “tennis geometry,” to defeat the aggressive, fiery David Ferrer4-6, 7-6(2), 6-1, 7-6(2), and reach the Australian Open finals, where he will take on Serbia’sNovak...
Published: January 28, 2011
In April 2010, the world’s then-No. 1 golfer, Tiger Woods, played his first tournament of the year at Augusta National at the Masters in the midst of a 365-day nightmare. Tiger actually played fairly well, finishing in a tie for fourth and leading many of us to think he wasn’t going to miss a beat, despite the long layoff and all that happened to him in his private life (which isn’t,...
Published: January 28, 2011
Today Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa have become the first drivers to unveil their teams’ 2011 Formula 1 car. It is hoped that the Ferrari F150, (named in homage to 150 years of Italian unification), will be able to make up for the disappointing end to 2010 when Fernando Alonso narrowly missed out on becoming a three-time World Champion. Now, to relatively untrained eyes like mine, the...
Published: January 28, 2011
When England Head Coach Martin Johnson addresses his team before the Six Nations clash in Cardiff, his pre-match team talk will already have been written for him. New Zealander Warren Gatland, entering his fourth Six Nations Championship as head coach of Wales, earlier this week publicly criticised England Hooker, Dylan Hartley in what many pundits and ex-players perceived as his first shot at pre-match...
Published: January 28, 2011
Over the past 150 years we have been treated to many memorable and some not-so-memorable games of rugby. When discussing which one was the greatest, only a handful make the cut. Whether it be for a dramatic finish, a try-fest or a display of sheer guts and determination, there have been some games that will forever be remembered by those who saw them. For me, though, one stands out above all the others,...
Published: January 28, 2011
In a year comprised solely of 0’s, 1’s and 2’s, the 2011 version of the Australian Open has thus far been all about the 3’s. Three seeds Novak Djokovic and Kim Clijsters have both punched their tickets into their respective championship matches, and both will be the favorites to take home the coveted title. Both Djokovic and Clijsters have had a little bit of good fortune leading...
Published: January 28, 2011
Kathy Bissell Rory McIlroy has announced via Twitter that he will not play The Players, which, by the way, is the tournament with the biggest purse in golf. The only person happy about this, much to McIlroy’s chagrin, is Pete Dye, who had said his mission in life is to provide today’s players with the same kind of golf challenge as Ben Hogan faced when hitting the famed 1-iron at...