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Some of the European Tour’s finest are on display at the Old Course at St. Andrews this week, and the first round of the 2013 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship was indicative of that fact. Twenty golfers are within three shots of each other after Thursday’s opening round, a group paced by five golfers who finished with an eight-under 64 on the afternoon. SuperSport noted as much on...
Published: September 26, 2013
Earlier this week, the PGA Tour announced the five nominees for the 2013 PGA Tour Player of the Year award. They include: Tiger Woods (five wins) Match Kuchar (two wins) Phil Mickelson (two wins including the Open Championship) Adam Scott (two wins including the Masters) Henrik Stenson (two wins and the FedEx Cup title) While Steve Stricker did not win a PGA Tour event in 2013 and was rightfully...
Published: September 26, 2013
Tennis tantrums have taken many shapes and sizes throughout the sport’s history. Certain players even evoke the imagery of outbursts merely by the mention of their names. Consider, for example, John McEnroe and Ilie Nastase. Yelling and racket breaking have become blasé, though. They are now the standard tantrum. The ridiculous sort go well beyond the norm to include the surreal,...
Published: September 26, 2013
The men of the front row are often overlooked when it comes to the headlines and glittering prizes, but the prop forwards are the unsung heroes of any successful team. Over the years they have evolved from blubbery piano shifters with little else to do other than scrummage, to monstrous specimens who combine raw power in the set piece with ferocious defensive work and all-round athleticism. Here are...
Published: September 26, 2013
The World Cup has an endearing habit for throwing up surprises and for hurling new and unexpected stars into our living rooms and into the communal global footballing psyche. It could well be that Japanese frontman Shinji Okazaki is the relative unknown that can make a surprise impact at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, adding his name to a list that includes the likes of Pele, Francois Omam-Biyik and...
Published: September 26, 2013
Over the past nine months, Luiz Felipe Scolari has transformed Brazil’s national football team from an under-performing giant to one of the favourites for next summer’s World Cup. It has not been an entirely smooth process, but the selecao are now unquestionably back among the game’s elite. But, despite this summer’s Confederations Cup triumph, Brazil must continue to look to...
Published: September 26, 2013
On Thursday, Venus Williams defeated Canadian teen Eugenie Bouchard, 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-3 in a three-hour thriller at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. It was the third straight upset for the seven-time Grand Slam champion. Next, she faces No. 5 seed Petra Kvitova in the semifinals. The way Williams is winning is as impressive as the victories themselves. Williams, 33,...
Published: September 26, 2013
Captioning is not always an easy job, especially if you’re dealing with an unfamiliar field. So when radio station Heart FM decided to put up some pictures of David Beckham at the Singapore Grand Prix this weekend, there was the perfect opening for a mix-up. Beckham, who was with the Mercedes team over the race weekend, was spotted with what the station described as an “elderly fan”: David...
Published: September 26, 2013
There are not too many questions remaining over 2014 in terms of the driver market, although one highly coveted seat does remain at Lotus. Outgoing Ferrari driver Felipe Massa is eyeing that, and he’s getting help from a powerful source. But further down the grid there are rumblings over next season. Away from reality, and before the 2013 iteration has even been officially released, Codemasters...
Published: September 26, 2013
Tennis sensation Martina Hingis, helped by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend, attacked her former husband Thibault Hutin, according to reports in Switzerland (including one from Blick). Hutin’s allegation—just one of several shocking claims including credit-card theft and multiple infidelities—have been picked up in several newspapers, according to Eurosport, as Hutin...