Tiger Woods’s withdrawal from the first event of the PGA Tour’s new four-event play-off series didn’t surprise many of his rivals. The FedEx Cup series, which will culminate with next month’s Tour Championship, was designed to bring all the tour’s top players together for four straight weeks.
Cricket South Africa is mourning the loss of Cecil Abrahams, who played with Basil D’Oliveira’s famous South African non-racial team against Kenya in home-and-away tours in the 1950s, and who has passed away in the United Kingdom. Abrahams died in Manchester on August 15 aged 75.
The Blue Bulls put on a clinical performance for a 48-7 victory over the winless Valke in their Currie Cup encounter at Bosman Stadium in Brakpan on Friday evening. Also, the South Western District Eagles have yet to lose in the Currie Cup first division after they beat the Border Bulldogs 25-10 in George on Friday night.
It was a meeting that threatened to tear the Premier Soccer League (PSL) apart as the two factions of South Africa’s professional league squared up over what one delegate called ”a legal, but immoral” bonus of R150-million that is due to be shared by five officials. The issue, however, was seemingly too hot to handle.
Demoted Mvela League club PJ Stars lost an urgent high court action in Johannesburg on Friday seeking to restrain the Premier Soccer League from continuing with games in what is effectively the second division. But, if Stars’ intention had been to win the war, not the battle, it had the desired effect.
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Friday announced Russia had resumed long-range flights of strategic bombers capable of striking targets deep inside the United States with nuclear weapons. Putin said Russia had restarted the Soviet-era practice of sending bomber aircraft on regular patrols beyond its borders.
Plumbers may have been blamed before for excessive bills. But none has come close to matching an extravagant claim by a South Carolina firm: almost -million for two metal washers worth 19 United States cents each. The washers were part of ,5-million that C&D Distributors stole from the Pentagon over the past 10 years.
The popularity and savagery of dog fighting was highlighted in the United States on Friday when proceedings against one of the biggest stars in American football, Michael Vick, and three others began in a Virginia court. The charges relate to a six-year dog-fighting competition alleged to have been operating from Vick’s property in Virginia.
The deployment of an international peacekeeping force in Darfur was thrown into confusion on Friday by war-crimes allegations against its proposed deputy commander. Major General Karenzi Karake is accused of responsibility for carrying out political assassinations and ordering reprisal killings against Hutus in Rwanda and Zaire.
Strong winds and rain lashed Taiwan as Typhoon Sepat made landfall on Saturday, cutting power supplies to more than 70 000 homes and forcing more than 1 000 people to evacuate and airlines to delay flights. Two cars were crushed by a falling billboard in Taipei.