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Diego Costa has been named in Spain’s squad to face Italy, but Juan Mata and Fernando Torres‘ participation at the 2014 World Cup is in serious doubt after the Premier League duo were omitted, as tweeted by Eurosport: Costa has the opportunity to make his Spanish debut after choosing to represent Vicente del Bosque’s side before the World Cup in Brazil—his country of birth—as...
Published: February 28, 2014
A lot can happen in football in the space of a week, but when Marcello Lippi told reporters last week that this would be his final year with Chinese side Guangzhou Evergrande there was little reason to doubt his honesty. Per Football Italia, the Italian had told Marca that 2014 would in fact be his final year in club management. A similar message, meanwhile, had been propagating in China for some time,...
Published: February 28, 2014
Round 3 of this year’s Six Nations championship was a rip-roaring phase of massive transition in the competition’s standings, putting four teams on four points apiece, showing just how balanced the tournament currently is. However, for all that excitement, Week 4 promises to be the turn that separates these foes, with Ireland hosting Italy, France travelling to Murrayfield and England playing...
Published: February 27, 2014
The Honda Classic ended with a thrilling four-way playoff won by 24-year-old Russell Henley at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Another epic collapse from Rory McIlroy opened the door for the playoff. Henley stepped right in as he calmly outperformed the other players on the sudden death hole. McIlroy was again left kicking himself. After shooting a seven-under 63 in the opening round and carrying...
Published: February 27, 2014
After a rough 2013 season, Rory McIlroy is already looking to rebound from early disappointment following a loss at the Match Play Championship. In order to do that, he’ll have to erase the memories of last year’s Honda Classic ahead of the Masters. Following a loss to Harris English at the Match Play Championship, McIlroy immediately turned his sights to this week’s tournament. It...
Published: February 27, 2014
The last, and only, South African team to win the Super Rugby title was the Bulls. The men from Pretoria lifted the trophy in 2010 when they beat the Stormers in the final, but they have had a shocking start to the 2014 campaign, while their rivals from Durban have shown a lot of promise. Now coached by Jake White and under the stewardship off the field of Springbok great John Smit, the Sharks of...
Published: February 27, 2014
Ross Fisher won the 2014 Tshwane Open at the Ernie Els-designed Copperleaf course by three shots from Michael Hoey and Danie Van Tonder to give him his first tournament victory for four years. The Englishman triumphed at Copperleaf course, which is the longest in European Tour history, standing at an impressive 7,964 yards in total. It also boasts four par-fives measuring over 600 yards—the...
Published: February 27, 2014
There are sports that define an athlete. And then there are athletes that define a sport. Tiger Woods fits the latter category. And like all great athletes, Tiger comes in two versions—winning Tiger and losing Tiger. As for which version of Tiger will show up in the 2014 season, it’s difficult to speculate. But let’s tee up both possibilities and see where the ball might land. Winning...
Published: February 27, 2014
The 2014 season certainly hasn’t been kind to world No. 1 Tiger Woods thus far, but he enters the Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., with an opportunity to turn things around at the perfect time. Woods missed the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open with a disastrous six-over-par tournament, so he doesn’t have much momentum ahead of the Honda Classic, but he was feeling confident regardless. According...
Published: February 27, 2014
Form is temporary, class is permanent. It’s an old sporting adage that each of us has read and heard a million times—apart from, apparently, Pastor Maldonado. When the Venezuelan was plotting his exit from Williams towards the end of last season, he was, in his view, escaping from the sinking ship. 2013, after all, was the second time in three seasons that Williams had failed to reach double...