Rainy forecasts and fears the 18th fairway will become a quagmire have US Open organisers preparing for the worst.
Hosting the Confederations Cup and the Indian Premier League gives SA officials confidence the Soccer World Cup will be staged without problems.
After spending a year of his life competing at the Masters, golf legend Gary Player made an emotional farewell to the event on Friday.
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/ 7 September 2008
Forgive Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic if this US Open is one grand-slam event he would like to forget.
Iraq’s Dana Abdulrazak, who braved sniper fire and bombs in order to train, was a winner just by starting the women’s 100m opening heats on Saturday.
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/ 6 December 2007
Floyd Mayweather doesn’t mind playing a bad guy if it helps make him a rich guy because growing up around criminals has pushed him to become boxing’s top star and an undefeated champion. The unbeaten 30-year-old American trash talker puts his World Boxing Council welterweight crown at stake on Saturday against undefeated English rival Ricky Hatton.
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/ 5 December 2007
Undefeated welterweights Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather arrived in Las Vegas on Tuesday ahead of their weekend championship showdown, with the Englishman brushing off Mayweather’s trademark trash talk. United States veteran Mayweather, 38-0 with 24 knockouts, defends his World Boxing Council crown on Saturday against Hatton, 43-0 with 31 knockouts.
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/ 28 September 2007
Three tense last-hole foursomes triumphs on Thursday sparked the United States to a 5½ to ½ edge over the Internationals at the Presidents Cup, matching the largest first-session lead in its history. The Americans nabbed the biggest first-session edge since they grabbed 5-0 leads on their way to victories over their non-European rivals in 1994 and 2000.
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/ 26 September 2007
Tiger Woods has a history of taking on the home-nation hero in singles matches at the Presidents Cup, but Canada’s Mike Weir, a captain’s choice for the Internationals, is not buying into the talk. United States captain Jack Nicklaus raised eyebrows on Tuesday by suggesting Woods should face Weir, the lowest-ranked global player.
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/ 2 September 2007
World number one Roger Federer answered the threat of big-serving United States giant John Isner to join top challengers Andy Roddick, Nikolay Davydenko and James Blake in the US Open fourth round on Saturday. Federer is trying for a 12th grand-slam crown and fourth US Open title in a row.