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For a couple months at the beginning of each year, conversations about golf are often filled with Masters references. The first major of the year is always a big topic, especially now that the historic gathering in Augusta, Ga., is just a week away. But before we get to the lightning-fast greens and the intense pressure that goes along with winning a green jacket, there’s the Shell Houston Open. Not...
Published: April 1, 2014
With this season’s Heineken Cup quarter-finals waiting just around the corner, Europe’s giants took a final breath on the domestic stage before they resume their international endeavours. Logovi’i Mulipola will be among those featuring in the last eight of the continent’s heavy hitters, and for the second week in succession, he makes this week’s shortlist after another...
Published: April 1, 2014
For the first time in two decades, Augusta National Golf Club won’t have a Tiger prowling its fairways and greens when the Masters tees off on April 10. And let’s face it: A Masters without Tiger Woods will be downright strange. Maybe even a little sad. But after Woods underwent a microdiscectomy to deal with a pinched nerve in his lower back, the world’s No. 1 golfer not only is...
Published: April 1, 2014
Former United States men’s national team goalkeeper Tony Meola is a legend in the history of the U.S. program, playing in three World Cups, including the team’s memorable run in 1994. In total, Meola earned 100 caps in his storied career for the U.S. We caught up with him in Arizona prior to the U.S.’s friendly against Mexico tomorrow and talked about Major League Soccer’s...
Published: April 1, 2014
It had to happen, but we just didn’t think it would be so soon. Tiger Woods is out of the Masters due to back surgery, and we really don’t know when he will return or in what shape he will be once he does. So, that leaves the door wide open, but for whom? Who, if anyone, can fill the enormous void left by the most dominant player ever to set foot on Augusta’s glistening greens? It...
Published: April 1, 2014
At this point in his career, with another major injury derailing hopes of becoming the winningest golfer in major championship history, it feels like Tiger Woods needs Augusta more than Augusta needs him. That wasn’t true about any Masters tournament since 1997, when Woods burst onto the major championship scene, but this season—which has seen Woods struggle through the early part...
Published: April 1, 2014
As the Masters prepares to open, it will do so without Tiger Woods. Woods has undergone a microdiscectomy on the herniated disc in his lower back and will miss “several months,” according to a statement posted on TigerWoods.com (h/t Yahoo Sports). Woods had the surgery, which removes the impingement around the nerve coming out of his spine, in Park City, Utah, with noted spinal...
Published: April 1, 2014
Four-time Masters champion Tiger Woods will not play in the 2014 major tournament because of a nagging back injury. Augusta National’s storied event won’t feature one of golf’s all-time greats—and one of the most prolific winners in Masters history. Woods broke the news on his Twitter account Tuesday: A story on TigerWoods.com revealed that Woods underwent a...
Published: April 1, 2014
After Lewis Hamilton‘s convincing win in a head-to-head battle with Nico Rosberg in the Malaysian Grand Prix, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has swam against the tide by claiming that it is inevitable that his drivers, friends since childhood, will become enemies as the 2014 Formula One season progresses. Wolff was speaking after a race which saw Mercedes maintain their performance advantage from Australia...
Published: April 1, 2014
With just over 70 days to go until the start of England’s 2014 FIFA World Cup campaign, plenty of talk surrounds those who may make Roy Hodgson‘s final cut of 23 players to represent the nation in Brazil. Of particular interest are the attacking options at the disposal of Hodgson, with three Southampton players impressing so much over the past 18 months or so that Adam Lallana, Jay Rodriguez...