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All Blacks captain Richie McCaw has sustained a stress fracture in his right foot and will miss up to six weeks of the Super 15 season. Scans have confirmed McCaw developed a stress fracture in his fifth metatarsal while doing a yo-yo fitness test last Monday. The injury is a blow to the Crusaders, but such is the depth of their team; they will still be a very competitive team with George Whitelock...
Published: February 8, 2011
Whether or not Tiger Woods’ performance last week at Torrey Pines, which landed him a ghastly T44 finish, was an indication that 2011 will be another dreadful dose of mediocrity like last season remains to be seen. For the Tiger once heralded as golf’s “great one,” Woods looked unrecognizable under the sun of the Farmer’s Insurance Open, where he had conquered fields throughout...
Published: February 8, 2011
A lot of people are still worried about Tiger Woods because his on course performance at the Farmers Insurance Open looked more like Tiger Not Quite Yet. Charge it off to the Chinese New Year. New clothes from Nike. Or even Rocco Redux. Whatever the reason, the Woods who made his first US appearance in San Diego, was not quite the one many expected or hoped to see. But don’t believe...
Published: February 7, 2011
Even Tom Cruise, Peter Graves, or Steven Hill would have found their first Mission Impossible if they had to play Belgium in the first round of the Fed Cup. Since the Williams sisters were unavailable to play the tie against the Kim Clijsters team, the hopes for winning were slim. Of course, team USA played the final of this competition over the last two years also without Serena or Venus. It...
Published: February 7, 2011
Manchester United and England legend, Sir Bobby Charlton, has been asked to put together a possible Great Britain football team to play in the 2012 Olympics in London. There have been previous attempts to create a GB football team, but each time it has been strongly opposed by the FAs of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. If they oppose again, then it will only leave a...
Published: February 7, 2011
A stalemate between anti-government protesters and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that has paralyzed the North African country for the past two weeks is deepening political and social cleavages in Egyptian soccer and positioning the country’s crowned national team in the camp of Mubarak supporters. The cleavages are evident in varying responses to the crisis by Cairo archrivals Al Ahly SC and...
Published: February 7, 2011
With Robert Kubica sure to miss the start of the season, maybe even the whole season, Renault face the task of filling some fairly big shoes. The Pole is the talisman of the team, outperforming his car like few others did last season and with his injury comes a serious dent in the teams 2011 chances. The new Renault has started brightly, topping the time sheets in Valencia in the hands of Kubica,...
Published: February 7, 2011
Tennis is a global sport, the appeal of which only continues to grow in countries once considered tennis black spots. Players like Rod Laver and Martina Navratilova paved the way for Bjorn Borg and Steffi Graf. They, in turn, opened doors down the road for the likes of Yevgeny Kafelnikov and, today, Li Na. The last 30 years have seen the sport move into new markets. It has attracted wider audiences...
Published: February 7, 2011
With the Wellington Sevens coming to a close, news has begun to surface of NBC’s plans to broadcast the Las Vegas leg later in February. The news demonstrates what many fans already knew: Sevens is expanding to become a global force in the sporting world. That may be a big call to make, but add to this newfound coverage the facts that it now has a title sponsor (HSBC if you’re only reading...
Published: February 7, 2011
The Wall Street Journal—at the start of the 2011 Australian Open—published an article titled Five Sizzling Tennis Questions. The questions were: Are Rafael Nadal’s injuries behind him? What about Roger? Who are the other challengers on the men’s side? Is this the year of the Woz? Is the women’s ranking system legitimate? The answers to four of the questions are still...