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The 2014 Six Nations championship came to a close this past weekend, so it’s only right that the tournament rounded off with a bang or two. After a six-month absence from the international stage, Manu Tuilagi returned to the English setup in very physical nature, while Ulster’s Stephen Ferris also made sure to stamp his mark on the Scarlets after a lengthy lay-off. Flying the Super Rugby...
Published: March 18, 2014
Since winning the World Golf Championships—Cadillac Championship at Miami’s Trump National Doral, 23-year-old Patrick Reed has been called arrogant and cocky. Some have simply called him confident. All these labels are, of course, in retort to how Reed classified himself following his big victory, when he stated that he feels like “one of the top five players in the world.” A...
Published: March 18, 2014
It’s staggering to think that come July, it will have been 16 years since France lifted the World Cup on home soil. Even now, those images of Didier Deschamps lifting the FIFA World Cup trophy high above his head in the middle of the partisan Stade de France crowd are still iconic. This summer in Brazil, the current crop of French talent have the chance to become French footballing heroes....
Published: March 18, 2014
Lewis Hamilton has denied claims he proposed to girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger, ending rumours with a simple tweet. The British Formula One driver was the subject of fierce speculation over the weekend, reported by John Drayton of the Daily Mail, but he called an end to reports by revealing he is yet to pop the question: Hamilton’s start to the 2014 season began with a disappointing third-lap...
Published: March 18, 2014
Over the past eight months, with the World Cup in Brazil looming, the form of United States men’s national team captain Clint Dempsey has become a major concern for U.S. fans. In August of last year, only 15 months removed from breaking the record for goals scored by an American in a single season in Europe, Dempsey came home to Major League Soccer. However, his 2013 MLS campaign was far from...
Published: March 18, 2014
The planet’s top tennis stars are headed south to Miami this March for the season’s second ATP Masters 1000 and WTA Premier Mandatory tournament: the 2014 Sony Open Tennis. Three-time champion and world No. 2 Novak Djokovic enters the men’s draw as the man to beat following a stellar showing at Indian Wells earlier this month. The 26-year-old Serb has won this event in back-to-back...
Published: March 18, 2014
On Sunday, Pastor Maldonado pulled off the circuit just 29 laps into the Australian Grand Prix. Fourteen laps later, his Lotus teammate, Romain Grosjean, joined him in retirement from the first Formula One race of the season. Strangely, in the new, hybrid-power unit (not engine) world of F1, this double-retirement actually represents a positive result for the team. There was concern the Lotus...
Published: March 18, 2014
“A forgotten Phenomenon” was how “In Bed with Maradona” characterized Rivaldo back in 2011. At the time the Champions League, Copa America and World Cup winner was playing for Sao Paulo in his native Brazil, and the then-38-year-old was shortly expected to blow the whistle on an illustrious, if not understated career. He played three years more. It wasn’t until March 15...
Published: March 17, 2014
If you went to the kitchen for a snack or a beverage while watching the last nine holes of the Valspar Championship, you probably missed a lead change or two. For a time, particularly during the last hour of the telecast, there were three tied for the lead, three additional players one shot back and another pack of professionals right behind them, ready to pounce. It was like the fox had been smelled,...
Published: March 17, 2014
Little by little, Mexico has had more and more presence in Europe thanks to the continuous improvement of the local league. El Tri’s performance at the 2005 Confederations Cup and the 2006 World Cup opened the floodgates so that several footballers could leave the country to start a career abroad. Those tournaments set the basis and lifted the hopes of hundreds of footballers who had dreamed...