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Certain sports seem to be far more entertaining from home. Take golf, for instance, because there is no way you can fall into a cactus while watching Rory McIlroy on your television. Such was the plight of one individual who thought it would be mighty swell to catch the golf star bash the ball around the links at the Match Play Championship from Marana, Ariz. Thanks to social media and the keen Internet...
Published: February 19, 2014
Rory McIlroy enters the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship with legitimate hopes of picking up his sixth PGA victory, and his first since 2012. McIlroy has not played a PGA event this calendar year, but he’s played two European events and has a second- and ninth-place finish. This comes after a disappointing 2013, where the Northern Irishman failed to pick up a win...
Published: February 19, 2014
We are now 15 events into the PGA Tour’s 2013/2014 wraparound schedule, and Tiger Woods has played a mere three rounds of golf. Since the FedEx Cup concluded last September, Woods has played just 15 competitive rounds of golf worldwide, and that includes four rounds at his own 18-man Northwestern Mutual World Challenge cash grab event. That is an average of around one competitive tournament round...
Published: February 19, 2014
Wales’ hopes of retaining the Six Nations title for a third year in succession rest on whether or not Warren Gatland’s side can claim anything from their home clash against France on Friday. The 26-3 loss in Dublin means that a second loss for the Welsh will likely derail their championship bid, while Philippe Saint-Andre’s in-form outfit have maintained a 100 percent winning record...
Published: February 19, 2014
All 10 of the top 10 players in the Rolex Rankings and 17 of the top 20 are in the field this week for the Honda LPGA Thailand. World No. 1 and defending champion Inbee Park will be making her first start of the season at the Siam Golf Club just outside of Bangkok. Suzann Pettersen is just a few percentage points behind Park and will be trying to overtake her for the No. 1 spot in the rankings. Pettersen...
Published: February 19, 2014
Brian O’Driscoll is almost half-way through his final RBS Six Nations for Ireland. The centre has amassed 138 Test caps in an international career that spans nearly 16 years. O’Driscoll’s performances for Leinster have yielded three RaboDirect Pro12 titles and three Heineken Cups, a record not even matched by his great international teammate Paul O’Connell. But where does ‘BOD’...
Published: February 19, 2014
Red Bull continued to struggle on the first day of the second Formula One preseason test. The reigning world champions spent the first four hours at the Bahrain International Circuit working on the car behind closed doors. Live coverage of the test on Autosport’s website noted that there was a lot of cutting and grinding sounds coming from the garage as the team worked on the rear of the car. The...
Published: February 19, 2014
Testing has resumed ahead of the 2014 Formula One season, and so too must the pre-season observations. It’s notoriously difficult to ascertain exactly how the teams are faring this far out from the first race weekend, but it doesn’t make it not worth trying to do so. Teams are not yet necessarily pushing for pure speed, focusing instead on reliability. And those with a little something...
Published: February 19, 2014
The 2014 Formula One season moves another step closer when the teams travel to Bahrain for the second of the year’s pre-season tests. The drivers and teams have four more days to get to know their new cars, and there’s plenty to learn. The rules of F1 have been altered substantially for this campaign. From a design perspective, the change to V6 turbo-charged engines from last year’s...
Published: February 19, 2014
There was a bit of history made on Tuesday night in Brazil when national star Rivaldo, now 41, joined up with his son to represent Mogi Mirim against XV de Piracicaba in the Campeonato Paulista. Rivaldinho is 18, but making his way in the game. His father, a veteran of 74 Brazil caps and the World Cup-winning 2002 team, is now the president at Mogi Mirim. Despite the range of achievements in the 41-year-old’s...