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Zurich Insurance Group released a new commercial this week starring Rickie Fowler, Keegan Bradley and a handful of other pro golfers. The good news is: It’s a great spot predicated on the weird premise of discerning just how much PGA and LPGA golfers love their sport. The company hooked up each golfer to a lie detector machine and asked him or her a series of increasingly absurd questions—all...
Published: June 11, 2015
Jerry Collins’ former team-mates paid tribute to the New Zealand rugby star in the best way possible. Collins and his partner, Alana Madill, were tragically killed in a car accident last week in France. On Wednesday, Collins’ France-based All Blacks team-mates gathered at the spot of the accident and performed an emotional and powerful haka led by Neemia Tialata. Former...
Published: June 11, 2015
It’s increasingly difficult to defend the standard of Formula One in 2015 after yet another dull race in the Canadian Grand Prix. The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve event can normally be relied upon to produce the most exciting spectacle of a given season, yet last weekend Montreal was reduced to the scene of the latest pole-to-flag win by Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton. Although it isn’t much...
Published: June 11, 2015
Ferrari boss Maurizio Arrivabene has revealed Kimi Raikkonen must perform to a certain standard if he wishes to keep his seat at the team in 2016. The Finn has been outperformed by team-mate Sebastian Vettel thus far in 2015, largely due to poor qualifying displays. But Arrivabene says points, not poles, are what will matter when any decision on his future is made. Raikkonen two-stopped in Sunday’s...
Published: June 11, 2015
Lewis Hamilton returned to winning ways at 2015’s Canadian Grand Prix. The reigning Formula One drivers’ champion led every lap bar one to record his fourth victory of the season, beating team-mate Nico Rosberg by a little over two seconds. It marked the end of Rosberg’s winning streak, and we also saw the end of Ferrari’s run of six consecutive podium finishes. While the incident...
Published: June 11, 2015
The Super Rugby season will reach the end of its round-robin phase this Saturday, and Round 18 of the 2015 campaign will supply answers to a raft of quivering questions. This weekend also marks the end of an era in Super Rugby, as 2016 will see the league increase to an 18-team format, making the Round 18 schedule just that more special. The Hurricanes have already tied up the top spot, but who will...
Published: June 11, 2015
The county-owned Chambers Bay Golf Club, site of the U.S. Open, sits on what was once the largest sand and gravel operation in the country. No more. What remains from those days are the concrete structures, like a modern-day Stonehenge or the ruins of an abandoned, ancient Greek town. Today, picturesque golf holes crawl across the undulating landscape, around and through the stone-like relics, ready...
Published: June 10, 2015
Phil Mickelson has competed in the U.S. Open 24 times in his career. He’ll make his 25th start in the nation’s championship at Chambers Bay. In 24 starts, Mickelson has recorded 10 top-10 finishes with a record six second-place finishes. Could this be the year the 44-year-old finally breaks through? Quite possibly. Read on to find out why. Begin Slideshow Read More →
Published: June 10, 2015
While Novak Djokovic may not yet have earned that elusive French Open title, it’s all but certain he has earned the empathy and respect of tennis fans around the world. Amidst the carnage of the epic war being fought for the “Greatest Of All Time” title, Djokovic has quietly been playing some extraordinary tennis over the last few years. As the gods of tennis and their attendants...
Published: June 10, 2015
With only one week until the 2015 U.S. Open, the FedEx St. Jude Classic may not have an overwhelmingly star-studded field, but with big-name players such as Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson looking to fine-tune their craft before the year’s second major, we should be in for 72 compelling holes of golf at TPC Southwind. A 7,244-yard par 70, Southwind will provide plenty of jaw-dropping and head-scratching...