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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: October 28, 2013
A new Big Three has taken over women’s golf. Inbee Park, Suzann Pettersen and Stacy Lewis have dominated the LPGA Tour this season. Park, Pettersen and Lewis have accounted for 12 LPGA Tour wins, including all five major championships this season. Park set the golf world buzzing earlier in the year by winning the first three majors on the LPGA Tour. Before her, only Bobby Jones,...
Published: October 28, 2013
It was back to domestic rugby warfare across Europe last weekend, with some key clashes at the top of the French Top 14 and Premiership revealing much about the depth of quality in some squads. With players missing for many sides on international duty, this is a period where others can gain ground in the race for top placings. Things have tightened up in England and France as we head into the first...
Published: October 28, 2013
Sebastian Vettel’s fine drive to victory at Sunday’s Indian Grand Prix meant that he joins an elite list of drivers to have won four world drivers’ championships. Vettel’s title triumph was his fourth in succession and in achieving the feat he draws alongside compatriot Michael Schumacher, Juan Manuel Fangio and Alain Prost in having won at least that many and only Schumacher...
Published: October 28, 2013
Rory McIlroy beat Tiger Woods by one shot in an 18-hole exhibition event in Haikou, China, to claim victory in the event for the second year in succession. Having also struck a round of 67 to win by one shot at the Jinsha Lake course in 2012, McIlroy returned to the event to card four birdies and an eagle on the back nine this time around, helping him secure a narrow triumph. Woods had an opportunity...
Published: October 28, 2013
Football fans were in for a surprise while watching Homeland Sunday night, when acting CIA director Saul Berenson revealed himself to be an extremely knowledgeable student of the beautiful game. (Warning: some mild spoilers ahead) In a scene from the fourth episode of the show’s third season—shown last week in the United States, and on Sunday in the United Kingdom—Berenson (played...
Published: October 28, 2013
Since Roger Federer‘s assault on the record books over the last decade, tennis fans have become well-versed in discussing the idea of a G.O.A.T.—acronym for Greatest of All Time. It’s become both a glamorous and tiresome topic, one of those reductio ad absurdum debates mingling framed data with subjective conclusions, revealing only the level of a fan’s devotion to either Federer...
Published: October 28, 2013
Come the World Cup, much attention will once again be placed upon a Japan side that lit up the Confederations Cup this summer, despite finishing bottom of the highly competitive Group A. Next summer, though, with a lower overall standard of opponent, they should stand a good chance of progression to the knockout rounds and, of the Asian sides involved, they will be far from alone in thinking as such. Australia...
Published: October 28, 2013
On Sunday night, the United States women’s national team defeated New Zealand 4-1 on the strength of goals by Megan Rapinoe, Carli Lloyd, Christen Press and Heather O’Reilly. The game was the second friendly of a four-game set for the USWNT, which also included a win over Australia last week and will include two more games—another against New Zealand on Wednesday and a game against...
Published: October 27, 2013
Javier Hernandez has gotten few minutes with Manchester United since David Moyes took over, which has has hurt Chicharito’s performance with Mexico’s national team. He needs continuity to go back to his old self with El Tri. Hernandez has played three full seasons with United and less than half of the fourth one. However, Chicharito is going through his worst goal drought (August to October)...
Published: October 27, 2013
Another glorious weekend of footballing action means that tens of thousands of players have been scrapping once again for a place in our top five. (Of course they haven’t—they’ve just been trying to win—but we like to pretend…hold on, I think I said this last week.) Anyway, with that being said (or repeated) here are Bleacher Report’s top five world football...