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Tennis star Maria Sharapova insists she is “determined to play tennis again” following March 7’s announcement that she failed a drug test. The five-time major winner recently revealed to gathered media she tested positive for meldonium, per WTA Insider. According to tennis journalist Chris Goldsmith, the drug was banned effective Jan. 1, 2016. Sharapova told reporters she...
Published: March 7, 2016
Tiger Woods took to Twitter on Monday afternoon to celebrate Peyton Manning‘s career, after the Denver Broncos quarterback officially announced his retirement. Woods even offered some self-deprecating humor, joking that he would need the handicap when the pair next played golf together: He also joked that Manning’s retirement would help out his favorite team, the Oakland Raiders: The...
Published: March 7, 2016
McLaren will field the most experienced driver lineup on the grid in 2016, with double world champion Fernando Alonso once again partnering 2009 champion Jenson Button. The two veterans will roll onto the grid for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix with 537 Formula One starts, 47 wins, 147 podiums and 2,997 career points between them. At a combined age of 70, they are by far the oldest pairing...
Published: March 7, 2016
Fernando Alonso is widely regarded as the biggest fighter in Formula One. Those fights have caused him more harm than good on occasion, but it would be far more worrying if that fight—that desire, that passion—were to be somehow extinguished. The two-time world champion has admitted his fight was severely tested during McLaren-Honda’s woeful 2015 campaign, but Alonso has insisted...
Published: March 7, 2016
Ireland’s crown has slipped this year. The back-to-back Six Nations champions have endured a draw and two defeats in their opening three games. It was not the rehabilitation coach Joe Schmidt had in mind following their demolition at the hands of Argentina in the 2015 World Cup quarter-final. Injuries have played a part in their current predicament. Paul O’Connell is gone, Peter O’Mahony...
Published: March 7, 2016
Liverpool‘s Roberto Firmino has been called up to the Brazil national squad as a replacement for the injured Kaka ahead of their World Cup qualifiers against Uruguay and Paraguay later this month. Per the Associated Press (via ESPN FC), Kaka suffered a thigh injury while training with MLS club Orlando City, and Selecao coach Dunga has opted to bring in Firmino, 24, as the veteran forward’s...
Published: March 7, 2016
Liverpool‘s Roberto Firmino has been called up to the Brazil national squad as a replacement for the injured Kaka ahead of their World Cup qualifiers against Uruguay and Paraguay later this month. Per the Associated Press (via ESPN FC), Kaka suffered a thigh injury while training with MLS club Orlando City, and Selecao coach Dunga has opted to bring in Firmino, 24, as the veteran forward’s...
Published: March 7, 2016
Our annual preview of the ATP Masters 1000 series tips off in time for Indian Wells 2016. This is the first of a series of the biggest tournaments outside the four majors, the World Tour Finals and (this year) the Olympics. We span the globe from the hard courts of the southern United States to the red clay of Europe to set up the French Open. Mid-summer sizzles with stops in more Northern America...
Published: March 7, 2016
Adam Scott overcame two front-nine double bogeys in his final round and averted disaster at his last hole to win his second tournament in as many weeks at the WGC-Cadillac Championship. The Australian’s impressive triumph at the difficult Blue Monster against a field of the best golfers in the world reinforces the message of last week’s triumph: Scott, long one of the best ball-strikers...
Published: March 6, 2016
Carrying the lead into the third round of the WGC-Cadillac Championship, Rory McIlroy wilted under the Doral, Florida, sun at Trump National Doral in the final round. McIlroy will have to keep waiting for his first PGA Tour win of 2016 after shooting a two-over 74 Sunday to finish tied for third for the tournament. McIlroy’s poor final round snaps what was an impressive streak of...