Matt Kuchar Wins WGC Accenture Match Play Championship

 Although the weather stole most of the headlines in Tucson, Arizona, it was Matt Kuchar who was holding the trophy on Sunday afternoon. Kuchar braved the weather and defeated defending champion Hunter Mahan 2 and 1 in the championship match on Sunday to take the title. The championship got off to a rocky start Wednesday when the first round of play was halted due to snow in Arizona. The weather... 

Ranking the 10 Biggest Golf Personalities of All Time

The personalities that make up professional golf are not all that dissimilar from those in any other line of work. They range from outgoing to quiet, from very real to very fake and from great for the game to just a bit iffy. But the game has been blessed over the years to have some great personalities, the kind that fall into the category of helping to mold the game as well as the category of continuing... 

Could Neymar Equal Luis Suarez’s Influence on the Premier League?

By now it has become a ritual for football fans—those of us who are less familiar with the Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A than we should be, anyway. About once a month we’ll see a link on the Internet, click on it, and then be blown away by the quality of what we see. Neymar will have scored another world-class goal and millions will be watching. The 21-year-old Santos superstar appears... 

Roger Federer: Sluggish Start at 2013 Dubai Open Should Cause Little Concern

Roger Federer has survived a scare from unseeded wild card Malek Jaziri in the opening round of the 2013 Dubai Open—taking the full three sets to defeat Jaziri. The top-ranked male Tunisian tennis player—who is currently ranked 128th in the world—surprised many, including Federer, by taking the first set 7-5 after the Swiss maestro had blown several opportunities to clinch the set... 

Rugby Union: Can North America Handle Its Huge Summer Schedule?

In early November 2004, your humble correspondent was able to secure a single seat in the back-row of the upper-deck in London’s Twickenham Stadium, to see his beloved Canada take on England on their home ground. As I eagerly purchased my commemorative program, I was shocked to see that Canada was going to take the field without most of its compliment of overseas professionals, who had not been... 

World-Class Business Men: Where Federer and Beckham Overlap

Apart from being world-class athletes and global icons, until now, there have not been many parallels between Roger Federer and David Beckham’s careers. However, both men are drawing towards the latter stages of their professional careers in very similar manners. Federer played the first round of the Dubai Open earlier today and began shakily. The 31-year-old dropped the first set, 5-7, after... 

What Are Brandt Snedeker’s Chances of Winning the 2013 Masters?

Brandt Snedeker is the hottest player in professional golf right now, and after opening his 2013 PGA Tour season with top-three finishes in four of the five events he has entered thus far—including a win at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro Am earlier this month—he is unquestionably one of the favorites heading into the year’s first major, the Masters Tournament. Of course, Snedeker... 

Why PSG’s Lucas Moura Is Potentially Better Than Neymar

Brazilian football, it seems, is never short of talent and the latest in a long line of Samba stars to move from South America to Europe and make an immediate impact is Paris Saint-Germain’s wonderkid Lucas Moura. The 20-year-old is currently one of the hottest properties in world football along with compatriot Neymar, but Moura has moved to Europe before the Santos star and has already started... 

Roger Federer Must Return to Form After Poor Showing in Rotterdam Tournament

A couple weeks after losing to Julien Benneteau in the Rotterdam quarterfinals, Roger Federer needed three sets to dispatch Malek Jaziri to begin his run in Dubai. It’s a poor run of form that’s rare for the 17-time Grand Slam champion, and he needs to end it before it becomes a trend. The Dubai opener was the first meeting between Federer and the 29-year-old journeyman from Tunisia, but... 

How the USGA’s Proposed Putting Ban Could Dramatically Alter the Game of Golf

Late in 2012, the United States Golf Association and Royal & Ancient proposed a change to the Rules of Golf that would essentially outlaw anchored putting strokes from the game. As part of the process for implementing this rather substantial rules change, the USGA and R&A gave golf’s governing bodies 90 days to review the proposed changes and provide formal feedback. The PGA of America... 

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