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After a bye week of sorts for the 70 golfers still alive, the FedEx Cup playoffs are back, with the BMW Championship this week from Conway Farms just outside Chicago. The course opened in 1991 and has risen in prestige steadily, hosting the 1998 U.S. Junior Amateur, the 2009 Western Amateur and the 2010 U.S. Mid-Amateur. The BMW Championship was first contested at the track in 2013, when...
Published: September 15, 2015
Debate regarding the excessive use of force by police flared up last week in the wake of former tennis star James Blake’s wrongful arrest by the New York Police Department, and the NYPD union released a statement Tuesday addressing how its officers are framed in the media. According to Newsweek‘s Polly Mosendz, the statement from union president Patrick J. Lynch revolved around a perceived...
Published: September 15, 2015
Novak Djokovic is the hero tennis needs regardless of what the majority of fans think of him. The 28-year-old superstar defeated Roger Federer in the 2015 U.S. Open finals in four sets, completing one of the greatest Grand Slam seasons ever seen in men’s tennis. His latest championship gives him three titles in one season and a finals appearance in the fourth, helping him clinch the No. 1 ranking...
Published: September 15, 2015
Free refills at movie theaters are just one perk of winning the U.S. Open—and as Novak Djokovic later found out, serving tennis balls at talk show hosts is apparently another. After defeating Roger Federer in Sunday’s final match, Djokovic appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he did indeed fire a tennis ball at the show’s host, who was crouched behind a Captain...
Published: September 15, 2015
Red Bull and Toro Rosso have not had many opportunities to shine this season, but this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix will be one of them. So far in 2015, Red Bull’s best races by far have been the Monaco and Hungarian Grands Prix—at the two tracks most similar to Singapore’s Marina Bay street circuit. Likewise, Toro Rosso’s Max Verstappen scored the team’s best...
Published: September 15, 2015
In football, they refer to it simply as the Dustbin Run. As author Mike Calvin told Sky Sports, the training exercise requires its participants to complete “300-yard” shuttle runs from a makeshift start line to a “council bin” at the opposite end of a field, with no fixed timescale. Its purpose is not to enhance a young player’s agility, acceleration and sprint speed,...
Published: September 15, 2015
Novak Djokovic retained his place as the No. 1 player in men’s tennis following his Sunday U.S. Open victory, while Serena Williams remains atop the women’s rankings despite her semi-final defeat at Flushing Meadows. Williams looked to be on the verge of tennis history with a calendar Grand Slam in sight, but a shock defeat to unseeded Italian Roberta Vinci in the last four stopped...
Published: September 15, 2015
While the FedEx playoffs don’t get anywhere near the attention of golf’s traditional major events, they have turned into a legitimate championship playoff that plays a huge role in determining the season’s individual champion. With the first two rounds of the playoffs in the books, the best golfers in the world move to the third leg of the playoff series in the BMW Championship at...
Published: September 15, 2015
Larry David has come up with a pretty good quote about Jordan Spieth. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good. The Curb Your Enthusiasm star is a keen golfer and gave an interview to Golf Digest, where he was asked about the Masters and US Open winner from Texas. David didn’t dissect Spieth’s game but instead focused on another area altogether. The Seinfeld creator said: He’s...
Published: September 15, 2015
Having assessed the top 15 men up front who will grace the 2015 Rugby World Cup, it’s now the turn of the ‘pretty boys’. Since John Kirwan lit up the first World Cup with his dashing runs from deep, the tournament has made several star backs household names thanks to their World Cup exploits. Kirwan and Serge Blanco were the stars of the inaugural showpiece in 1987 and were followed...