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Saturday may be historically marked as “moving day” during golf tournaments but Friday’s second round sure saw a lot of shuffling on the leaderboard at the 2013 PGA Championship. On a day where Oak Hill Country Club again played into the players’ favor thanks to some overnight precipitation, only those who went low in Round 2 lived to tell their tale. Pre-tournament favorites...
Published: August 10, 2013
If Tiger Woods plans on contending at the 2013 PGA Championship it’s going to take one of the best rounds of his life on Day 3 at Oak Hill Country Club. The 14-time major winner shot at even par 70 on Day 2 to improve upon his Day 1 score by one stroke. But it wasn’t enough to make his presence felt on the leaderboard, and he lies 10 shots off the lead. Rains have made the course...
Published: August 10, 2013
Days 1 and 2 provided plenty of intriguing storylines at the 2013 PGA Championship, but the real action starts on Day 3. That’s when the pressure will start to mount as the contenders attempt to separate themselves from the pack. The Wanamaker Trophy represents the final opportunity for players to claim a major championship in 2013 so the competition down the stretch is sure to be fierce. Here’s...
Published: August 10, 2013
In the world of golf, it doesn’t get much better than the weekend of a major championship. With Day 3 of the 2013 PGA Championship, the final major weekend of the year is set to get underway at Oak Hill Country Club. The first two days saw a little bit of everything. Jason Dufner set the course on fire with a 63 on Day 2, while stars like Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy struggled...
Published: August 10, 2013
On a particularly pleasant summer’s eve at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic both won their quarterfinal matches in straight sets, setting up a highly anticipated Saturday semifinal showdown. Djokovic played a near flawless match against the No. 9 player in the world, Richard Gasquet, needing only 51 minutes to complete a 6-1, 6-2 performance. His dominance of a player...
Published: August 10, 2013
Rafael Nadal vs. Novak Djokovic is still the biggest rivalry in men’s tennis. It’s big stakes as usual, this time in the semifinals of the Canada Open. The winner will be a strong favorite to capture the Rogers Cup. This is also their first meeting since their war on clay at the French Open semifinals, a match many consider to be the most important, if not the best of 2013. But the scene...
Published: August 10, 2013
So you want to know which statistics you need to master to be a professional women’s tennis player? Better get your return game going. As Reeves Wiedeman of The New Yorker wrote in 2012: “The serve is tennis’s slam dunk, home run, and Hail Mary.” He would later go on to praise Serena Williams’ serve as threatening to overshadow the entire game of women’s...
Published: August 9, 2013
The quarterfinals of the Rogers Cup are Friday night and No. 4 Rafael Nadal is facing No. 74 Marinko Matosevic. Nadal’s doubters have been vocal of late, and to silence them—at least temporarily—he needs to take it all in Montreal. Wimbledon was a traumatic time for many tennis fans, regardless of who your guy was, and Rafa’s early exit started it all: Following the loss,...
Published: August 9, 2013
Rio Ferdinand‘s testimonial didn’t turn out to be quite the experience that Manchester United fans had in mind when they made their way to Old Trafford on Friday. Facing Sevilla in one of the final preseason friendlies before the Premier League slate begins, the Red Devils fell behind the La Liga club by two goals after just 25 minutes of action. The early struggle would carry over...
Published: August 9, 2013
At the end of the day, England fans don’t care about Rickie Lambert’s story. They don’t care that 12 years ago the Kirkby-born striker spent his summer working in a beetroot factory, or that he once accepted terms of £50 per week from Macclesfield. They’re not impressed by the fact that in his first Premier League season, at age 31, he finished joint-seventh on the goalscoring...