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One can only imagine the thoughts racing around the bubble of Lewis Hamilton‘s crash helmet in the latter stages of last weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix. The championship leader was on course to take his fourth victory of the 2015 Formula One season in Monaco when Mercedes’ strategy mishap dropped Hamilton to third and gifted a second successive win to his team-mate and title rival, Nico...
Published: May 27, 2015
World No. 2 Jordan Spieth headlines a strong field in the 2015 AT&T Byron Nelson at TPC Four Seasons Resort in Irving, Texas. A native to the Dallas metropolitan area, Spieth will be aiming to claim a victory in front of a supportive home crowd after narrowly missing out on a win in Fort Worth’s Crowne Plaza Invitational last week. Spieth was asked about draining a long birdie on the 18th...
Published: May 27, 2015
The 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup is just 10 days away, and the host nation Canada is putting the finishing touches on their preparations before opening the tournament against China on June 6 at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton. It has been a long wait for the eighth-ranked team in FIFA’s world rankings. Without any qualification games to test and tune their squad, they may find...
Published: May 27, 2015
In just over a month, United States men’s national team boss Jurgen Klinsmann will name his 23-man squad for the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup. With an automatic berth in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup on the line through a title, the Yanks will not be taking the tournament lightly. Klinsmann is expected to bring in most of his first-team stars for the tournament, which starts for the...
Published: May 27, 2015
Wasps added to their growing list of elite-level players this week after BBC Sport announced the Premiership club had signed Australia legend George Smith. Smith, capped 111 times for the Wallabies, will turn 35 this July and has a chance to make Michael Cheika’s Rugby World Cup squad following a change in the national team’s policy on overseas players. It speaks volumes of the flanker’s...
Published: May 26, 2015
Rory McIlroy seems to be an even better person than he is an athlete, and that’s saying something. In each round of the Irish Open, which is set to begin Thursday, the world’s top golfer will rock a different pair of shoes that children whose lives have been “impacted by cancer” designed, according to Nike. The four designs were created during a weekend that the Cancer Fund...
Published: May 26, 2015
We’ve arrived at the final leg of the PGA Tour’s Texas Swing: the AT&T Byron Nelson from TPC Four Seasons Resort in Irving, Texas. Last week’s Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial came to a rolling boil Sunday afternoon in a wild couple of hours when it looked like seemingly 10 different golfers were going to win the tournament. The victor, Chris Kirk, isn’t...
Published: May 26, 2015
Two top seeds were bounced from the 2015 French Open during Tuesday’s Round 1 action, and heading into Wednesday’s bracket action, fans will be hoping for more of the same. Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams all advanced to Round 2, but Grigor Dimitrov and Eugenie Bouchard suffered shock exits at the hands of Jack Sock and Kristina Mladenovic, respectively. The likes of Maria...
Published: May 26, 2015
At the start of this French Open, things feel a bit different than they have over the past decade. Nine-time Roland Garros champion Rafael Nadal is no longer the man expected to walk away with the trophy. Instead, the title of favorite belongs to world No. 1 Novak Djokovic. And rightly so. Djokovic is 36-2 on the season, with five huge titles under his belt: the Australian Open, Miami Open, BNP Paribas...
Published: May 26, 2015
After three days of action in the first round, the intensity picks up on Wednesday at this year’s French Open. Maria Sharapova and Roger Federer are the headline acts, though they aren’t alone as Tomas Berdych, Kei Nishikori and Simona Halep get back on the clay court. It’s been a quiet start at Roland Garros thus far, with no major upsets to speak of. That figures...