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Fernando Alonso, as ever, kept his cards close to his chest. Valtteri Bottas was looking forward to heading back home to Finland and a month with “no travelling.” Marcus Ericsson? Five days in Croatia would do the trick. Daniel Ricciardo spoke of working “on this tan” in St. Tropez, presumably referring to the holiday resort and not the stuff you’d find in a bottle...
Published: August 18, 2015
Despite declining sponsorship revenue, the loss of the German Grand Prix (at least for this year) and falling television viewing figures, Formula One team budgets remain quite healthy. This season, every team except Manor is spending more than €100 million (approximately $110 million), according to Business Book GP and the Spanish newspaper El Mundo Deportivo (h/t Crash.net). But,...
Published: August 18, 2015
Andy Murray’s victory at the Rogers Cup came laced with the added achievement that he can now be considered the world’s No. 2 tennis player, taking over from Roger Federer after beating Novak Djokovic in the Montreal final. Sky Sports tweeted the movers and shakers inside the top 10: Murray guaranteed the No. 2 spot with his semi-final win over Kei Nishikori, then solidified it with...
Published: August 18, 2015
The Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati is one of the bigger stops on the road to the U.S. Open. Although Monday only served to kick off the main draw of the marquee event, Venus Williams, Gael Monfils, Grigor Dimitrov and Garbine Muguruza were among those in action. Monday wasn’t a great day to be a seeded player, either, as a number of ranked players all fell shortly after their tournaments...
Published: August 18, 2015
Golf, while not the most purely athletic sport in the kinetic pantheon, is the cruelest. For instance, even if a player is really, really, really good and a winner of, say eight tournaments and over $40 million, he will get drawn and quartered on the “best player without a major” table (hereafter referred to as BPWAM). That’s how mean professional golf is. Once players graduate to...
Published: August 17, 2015
Jason Day got over the hump. Jordan Spieth ascended to the top of the golf rankings. And a new age of golf began Sunday at the PGA Championship. All of the pieces are now in place for golf to have a golden age similar to the one we’ve been watching in men’s tennis in the past several years, with players such as Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Andy Murray dominating...
Published: August 17, 2015
Jason Day put on an epic performance in the face of pressure from all angles over four days at Whistling Straits, Wisconsin, before winning a thrilling iteration of the 2015 PGA Championship. The Australian star had to deal with a tricky course, a second round ruined by Mother Nature and shoved into Saturday and extreme pushes by some of golf’s best, chief among them one Jordan Spieth. Yet the...
Published: August 17, 2015
Fresh off missing the cut over the weekend at the PGA Championship, Tiger Woods will be participating in the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Thursday. “We discussed it in detail over the weekend. It was not appropriate to confirm during the PGA Championship,” Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, told ESPN.com in an email, per Bob Harig. “Tiger has heard...
Published: August 17, 2015
Fact: Jordan Spieth joins Jack Nicklaus (1973) and Tiger Woods (2005) as the only players to finish in the top 4 in all 4 majors in the Masters Era. Bleacher Report will be bringing sports fans the most interesting and engaging Cold Hard Fact of the day, presented by Coors Light. Source: ESPN Stats & Info Read more Golf news on BleacherReport.com Read More →
Published: August 17, 2015
The serene beauty of Whistling Straits Golf Course was on full display Sunday in the final round of the 2015 PGA Championship. The sun sparkled off the deep blue of Lake Michigan throughout the day and gradually set among the rolling hills during the closing stretch of the year’s final major. None of it was as beautiful as Jason Day’s swing. The Australian golfer won his first career major...