Multimillionaires Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal may be upset over ATP reforms, but their problems are nothing compared with those encountered by tennis players in Iraq. Even putting together a team for next month’s Davis Cup Group IV Asia/Oceania tie in Burma is an achievement, as three of their group were murdered last August.
Unheralded American Boo Weekley dropped astonishing par chip-ins on the last two holes of a wind-marred final round to win the United States PGA Verizon Heritage tournament on Monday. Weekley fired a final-round 68, three under par, to capture his first PGA crown and defeat South African Ernie Els by one stroke.
Vodacom Bulls flank forward Danie Rossouw was suspended for one week on Monday, after a Sanzar judicial hearing found him guilty of committing a dangerous tackle in the Vodacom Super 14 match against the Vodacom Stormers at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.
With the Premier Soccer League (PSL) title already in the bag and an Absa Cup semifinal berth indicating bright prospects of a PSL ”double”, Mamelodi Sundowns left South Africa for their most imposing and difficult challenge of all against Egypt’s Al-Ahly in the CAF second-leg Champions League clash.
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South Africa cricket captain Graeme Smith on Monday played down reports of a heavy drinking session by some of his players on the night following their World Cup defeat against New Zealand. ”I have no issues with some guys going out for a drink and blowing off steam. It’s a long tournament,” said Smith.
The JSE was flat in noon trade on Tuesday with light selling ahead of United States inflation data due in the afternoon, while European Union markets took a dip in early trade. By noon, the all-share index was flat (-0,04%). Resources fell 0,38%. The platinum and gold mining indices dipped 0,57% and 1,16% respectively.
A laptop, a mouse and a printer: that’s the complete list of standard equipment for many workstations. There has, however, been a certain trend of late to add more colour to the picture: cup warmers, small ”swan neck” fans and even mesmerising lava lamps have begun to make inroads into the uniformly grey PC desk landscape.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has called for the resignation of World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz "not just because of his abuse of his office to promote, and give a huge pay rise to, his girlfriend, but because of his consistently anti-working class and anti-poor policies", it said on Tuesday.
David Dain Smith lives in Missouri, but his California winery is just a click away, waiting to spring to life in the dim glow of his computer screen. Smith is making wine through Crushpad, a winery where the grapes are real but the experience is as virtual as members want it to be with email updates, live chat and web cams.
Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the internet, some university researchers with the federal government’s blessing want to scrap all that and start over. Many believe a ”clean slate” approach is the only way truly to address challenges that have cropped up in this time.