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Mercedes F1 chairman Niki Lauda has dismissed reports of Ross Brawn leaving the team at the end of the season as “bull****” and “total rubbish,” per the Daily Mail‘s Jonathan McEvoy. Lauda is believed to want to retain the former Ferrari man but is in the middle of a dispute with team shareholder Toto Wolff, who hopes to move former McLaren engineer Paddy Lowe to...
Published: October 30, 2013
In football, there is no such thing as a lost cause. Some of the most memorable matches in history have been inspired by a team refusing to lie down and take defeat, fighting back to triumph in the most heroic of fashions. Such classics go down in the history books as more evidence for what makes football such a compelling, unpredictable sport. Looking over the last 100 years of the game,...
Published: October 30, 2013
Maybe Rafael Nadal can give the No. 1 ranking back. Ever since earning the accolade following the China Open final, he’s been struggling a bit, at least by the ridiculous standards he’s set for himself in the rest of 2013. This is a guy who’s lost five matches the entire season. Now, in the space of two tournaments, Nadal lost that final to Novak Djokovic in straight sets and then...
Published: October 30, 2013
The 2013 Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix takes place this weekend at the Yas Marina Circuit, close to the city of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. This is the year’s only “day-night” race—it starts just before dusk and ends under the stars. The 4,700 lights are turned on before the start to ensure track lighting remains constant throughout. In 2010 Yas Marina hosted the...
Published: October 30, 2013
After winning the first set, 6-1, in his second-round match at the Paris Masters on Tuesday, eighth-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga dropped the next two sets in tiebreakers and fell to Kei Nishikori, 1-6, 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (9-7). Wilfried-Tsonga was the only seeded player to lose on Tuesday. Tsonga was serving to win the match in the third set, and he double faulted. That was one of eight...
Published: October 29, 2013
Landon Donovan is the most accomplished player in the history of American soccer. On the international stage, he’s scored five World Cup goals, as many as legends Zinedine Zidane, Romario, Franz Beckenbauer and Raul. In 2009, Donovan helped lead the United States to an improbable second-place finish at the 2009 Confederations Cup, and on two separate occasions, in very short winter-loan stints,...
Published: October 29, 2013
Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has called up Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa for the Selecao Brasileira’s final two friendlies of the calendar year against Honduras and Canada. But that call-up came too late as the 25-year-old opted to play for Spain over the country of his birth. Over the last few weeks Costa had been at the centre of a tug-of-war between his native Brazil and adopted...
Published: October 29, 2013
Simona Halep and Ana Ivanovic headline a group of eight women competing in this fall’s 2013 Qatar Airways Tournament of Champions, a one-week indoor hard-court tournament beginning Tuesday in Sofia, Bulgaria. The characteristic round-robin format will split the women into two groups of four. The players will face off against each of the other three competitors in their group to determine which...
Published: October 29, 2013
Diego Costa has confirmed that he wishes to represent Spain, not Brazil, at international level after signing a legal document which will be presented to the Brazilian Federation. Joaquin Maroto of AS.com reports that the document was signed before a notary—where all legal documents in Spain must be prepared and signed to bind—with the Atletico Madrid striker intent on rejecting any call-up...
Published: October 29, 2013
The Northern Hemisphere returned to domestic rugby action this weekend, with many stars hoping to leave some last impressions ahead of the November internationals. From this point, the standing of every European league could well take on a phase of metamorphosis, with some sides set to lose more of their star talent than others. Northampton Saints and Ospreys were particularly impressive in their attempts...