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The young stars of today will be the newest generation of the world’s best players in the future, and the FIFA Under-20 World Cup, currently taking place in Turkey, is providing some glimpses of those potential top names. While the tournament has provided some fantastic football all-round so far, and is still relatively in its infancy for this year’s edition, there have nonetheless been...
Published: June 25, 2013
No tournament is more laden with tradition than Wimbledon: the all-white dress code, the middle Sunday, strawberries and cream, British hopes crashing and burning in heartbreaking fashion…. The dress code, the schedule and the strawberries will appear again in 2013, but the last of those four traditions may end this fortnight. Last year’s Wimbledon finalist Andy Murray restarts his...
Published: June 25, 2013
After a thrilling first round of Wimbledon, the competition will only pick up even more in Round 2. The opening couple of days of the prestigious event featured a number of major upsets, highlighted by Rafael Nadal going down in straight sets. The French Open champion struggled to make the transition to the grass court, and Steve Darcis got the win. With a number of elite players in action on Day 3...
Published: June 25, 2013
Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els and Vijay Singh have overcome Tiger Woods‘ presence to win major championships during the Tiger Woods era. Had Woods not been around, each of them would likely be in double digits in majors. Woods’s persona as well as his golf game stifled their abilities to win more of the big ones. But is that era coming to a close? For the first 15 years of Tiger’s...
Published: June 25, 2013
European giants collide on Thursday when Italy and Spain meet in the semifinal of the 2013 Confederations Cup. These two sides are very familiar with each other, given their history at international tournaments, and last met competitively at the 2012 European Championships. Spain got here by finishing with nine points and first place in Group B. Italy lost their last match to Brazil, thus finishing...
Published: June 25, 2013
The 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup’s semifinals action gets underway on Wednesday when the host nation, Brazil, takes on Uruguay, followed by Thursday’s marquee fixture between European titans Italy and Spain. A lot of stars will take to the pitch in the coming days to decide which club will meet in the final, but based on matchups and personnel, several standouts will loom particularly large. Below...
Published: June 25, 2013
When Brazil and Uruguay square off in the first Semifinal match of the 2013 Confederations Cup, all eyes will be on Barcalona’s newest star Neymar. The 21-year old wunderkind has lit up the first three games of the Confederations Cup for his native Brazil, scoring in all three matches and providing some some decent highlights while doing so. Brazil has cruised past Japan, Mexico and Italy...
Published: June 25, 2013
The only person capable of making Roger Federer anything but a heavy favorite at Wimbledon is Father Time. Of course, World No. 1 Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, who lost a tough match to FedEx in the Wimbledon final last year before beating him on the same court for Olympic gold, certainly have claims in that area. But even in the midst of an inescapable decline, Roger Federer is still...
Published: June 25, 2013
As teams at the U-20 World Cup play their second matches of the tournament, it is not getting any easier to separate the best from the rest. Day 5 of the prestigious tournament featured plenty of excitement and upsets, although no one in either Group C or Group D was able to pull away from the pack. The one thing we did see is a number of outstanding individual performances from players who will soon...
Published: June 25, 2013
As the 2013 Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament kicks into high gear, it is clear once again that World’s No.1 female tennis player Serena Williams is the class of the field. While Williams has utterly dominated her competition over the last several months, the best players the sport has to offer like Sloane Stephens, Victoria Azarenka and others will do their best to dethrone the queen of the mountain...