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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: August 13, 2014
With just a few weeks left of the transfer window, the chance to secure many of Brazilian football’s leading lights has passed, and instead clubs must be more picky in who they attempt to make a late move for. Besides the five players we picked out last week as potentially being bound for Europe this month, here Bleacher Report takes a look at those whose situation may just allow for a late move. Time...
Published: August 13, 2014
The 2014 LPGA Championship will be held at Monroe Golf Club in Pittsford, New York, for the first time ever. This is just the fourth different venue for the major tournament in the past 20 years, so it will be interesting to see how the top stars in women’s golf adjust to the new course. Inbee Park is the defending champion, and last season, she won three of the four traditional LPGA major titles....
Published: August 13, 2014
Sandwiched between the end of the PGA Championship and the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs, the Wyndham Championship offers fans a competitive stepping stone between two of the most exciting times of the season. Last week’s tremendous finale at Valhalla saw Rory McIlroy join Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only players with four majors at age 25. McIlroy won’t be in action this week,...
Published: August 13, 2014
Roger Federer’s late career cannot be expected to escape the shadows of his fabled dominance of years past. A Masters 1000 tournament like Cincinnati’s Western & Southern Open brings more scrutiny on the aging Swiss Maestro. While tennis fans cannot reasonably compare 2014 Federer and his competition to his 2007 self on a different ATP tour, there are nevertheless questions about his...
Published: August 13, 2014
The Top 14 gets underway this Friday with everyone gunning to topple Toulon following last season’s triumph. It was a miserable summer for French rugby with Les Bleus blown away 3-0 on their tour of Australia. Coach Philippe Saint-Andre trained his sights on the domestic top flight as one of the causes of the downturn in the national side’s fortunes, per his comments reported by ESPNScrum: “England...
Published: August 13, 2014
Let’s see. Rory McIlroy has already won the U.S. Open, The British Open and two PGA Championships. That’s three-fourths of a Grand Slam. What else could Rory McIlroy possibly want in golf? “To be one ( major championship) behind Phil, one behind Seve, level with Ernie, level with Raymond Floyd, I mean, I never thought I’d get this far at 25 years of age,” McIlroy said...
Published: August 12, 2014
Bubba Watson is beginning to look like a one-dimensional player whose game is made for the Masters but not much else when it comes to the majors. Based on how he played the last three majors of the year, missing two cuts and way out of the mix in the third, the ball-bashing Watson from Bagdad, Florida, seems to lose his magic outside the confines of Augusta. While Rory McIlroy has been busy destroying...
Published: August 12, 2014
After Rory McIlroy claimed his fourth career major title at Valhalla on Sunday night, much of the attention of the world’s golfing media focused on what this victory tells us about the 25-year-old Irishman’s future potential. Of more immediate concern to McIlroy and the losing field, however, is the impact that his victory has on the US and European teams’ Ryder Cup standings. McIlroy...
Published: August 12, 2014
The 2014 PGA Championship wrapped up on Sunday in somewhat dramatic fashion, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon decided to pay tribute to some of golf’s biggest names by handing out “Tonight Show Superlatives.” Update: August 14 at 4:19 p.m. ET Jimmy Fallon apparently knew Chesson Hadley pretty well: [Chesson Hadley] –End of Update– Update: August...
Published: August 12, 2014
In the modern era of Formula One, and sport in general, it is the winning—not the taking part—that counts. And it is not just winning alone that matters for teams, individuals, manufacturers and constructors—they have to win well, win often and win in the “proper way.” The fashionable way, the groovy way, the right way. This ever-growing strive for complete, unblemished...