Brazil: 50 Games, 100 Goals, No Golds

Brazil 3, Belarus 1 Brazil. The single word conjures up hundreds of footballing stories. From Pele to Ronaldinho and Socrates to Neymar, there’s no doubting their legendary credentials. So, with five World Cup victories, more than any other country, how come the green and yellows have never been able to transfer that success to the Olympic Games? Sunday, 29 July 2012 will go down as a historic... 

25 Biggest Tennis Upsets in Olympic History

Like other tournaments, tennis at the Olympics follows seeding protocol. Of the 64 players entered into the draw, 16 of the top-ranked competitors are seeded in both the men’s and women’s fields. Then the unseeded players are placed randomly throughout the draw. The main reason for the seeding is to prevent the top-ranked players from meeting in the tournament during the early rounds. Seeding... 

Tiger Woods: $83.5 Million Up for Grabs for Woods and PGA over the Next 8 Weeks

Seventy-seven players representing 18 countries will tee it up on Thursday at fabled Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. The Bridgestone consists of an elite field of the top players in the world.  The total purse is $8.5 million, with approximately $1.4 million going to the winner.  It is a no-cut event, so even the last place finisher will earn a... 

Great Britain vs. Uruguay: Start Time, Live Stream, TV Info and Preview

On Wednesday, Aug. 1, Great Britain and Uruguay will hit the pitch for their men’s Group A Olympic soccer match at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. According to Rick Zuckerman of NBCOlympics.com, 2012 is Great Britain’s first Olympic appearance since 1960. The host nation hasn’t even tried to qualify since 1972. Team GB’s soccer résumé includes two gold... 

Hungarian F1 GP: Michael Schumacher’s Antics Add Colour to Otherwise Dull Race

Michael Schumacher is getting on a bit. At 43 years old, he’s well short of the oldest driver to enter a race (Louis Chiron holds that record at 58). He’s not even too old to succeed—the great Juan Manuel Fangio was world champion at 46. But he did seem to have a bit of a “senior’s moment” at the start of the 2012 Hungarian Grand Prix. After delivering his worst... 

Senior British Open 2012: Fred Couples’ Win Couldn’t Be More Satisfying

Fred Couples waited long enough. He won the 2012 Senior British Open on Sunday with Gary Hallberg two strokes behind. The now-Champions Tour competitor triumphed in just one PGA Tour major in his career, which occurred all the way back in the 1992 Masters. While the Senior British Open isn’t a PGA Tournament, that doesn’t make Couples’ victory any less satisfying. Sure, the former... 

Neymar: Assessing His Performance for Brazil vs. Belarus

The headlines really say it all about Neymar. One day after Mano Menezes admitted that Neymar had been recently struggling to impress with Brazil, Neymar was heralded as the star of Brazil’s win over Belarus by the AFP, The Independent and the Associated Press, among others.  And in truth, Neymar deserved all the praise. For all those who have ever claimed that Neymar was all hype, or that... 

Tiger Woods: 5 Reasons Why He Will Dominate Kiawah Island

The last major of the season is upon us and for Tiger Woods in 2012, it really is “Glory’s Last Shot.” The PGA Championship next week will be played at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, South Carolina. While the 1991 Ryder Cup was played there, the Pete Dye design has yet to host a stroke play tournament for the regulars on the PGA Tour. For Woods, this has been a very successful... 

New Zealand: Kosta Barbarouses’ Time to Shine?

 New Zealand 1 Egypt 1 Four years ago, New Zealand qualified for their first ever Olympic football tournament thanks to the attacking abilities of Kosta Barbarouses, netting four goals in five games in the preliminary tournament. However, with three older players being drafted in, as the qualifying campaign was strictly an under-23 competition, Barbarouses was left out of the side that traveled... 

Olympic Soccer 2012: 6 Things We Learned from the Spain-Honduras Clash

Spain have been eliminated in the group stages! When was the last time we heard those words? To save you some time researching, it’s been over a decade—the 2001 U-17 World Cup. Spain’s historic run of international success has come to an end now that La Rojita has been eliminated from the 2012 London Olympics. After losing a second consecutive match by a score of 0-1, Luis Milla and... 

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