Jonathan Byrd returned a sizzling card of seven-under 64 to grab the opening round lead, while Tiger Woods squandered a good start to finish tied eighth in the BMW Championship, the penultimate US PGA Tour playoff event.
Aware that she is no more the reigning queen of the 400m event, Sanya Richards is itching to unleash herself in the Weltklasse meeting in Zurich and reclaim the crown, which now belongs to Christine Ohuruogu of Britain.
Novak Djokovic and David Ferrer chalked out facile straight-set wins to sail into the semifinals of the US Open, joining Roger Federer and Nikolay Davydenko in the last four stage of the Grand Slam tournament.
Trevor Graham cited the successful and most controversial sprint coaches at the track and field, because athletes trained under him collect gold medals equal to the number of drug suspensions. BALCO steroid scandal the biggest performance-enhancing drug scandal in U.S. sports history sets a further trial for the coach. Consequently, the alleged involvement of elite athletes might surface yet again.
All Blacks have been world’s awe-inspiring team with a winning streak against all rugby-playing nations yet the first World Cup of 1987 is the only feat they have so far owned.
2007 results, the Tri Nations trophy and the Bledisloe Cup support All Blacks favoritism to end its 16-year run of the World title underachievement. Endowed with depth, leadership and strong set-players, the team has three of the best five props in the world, three of the best six second-rowers and adequate replacements everywhere so there’s hardly any doubt regarding their failure. Graham Henry, who got the New Zealand coaching job one month after the team was eliminated from the 2003 World Cup, has trained his players to the extremes.
They call it “the race that stops a nation” and it was some irony when the race itself was in serious danger of getting stopped. Australia’s major annual thoroughbred horse race, the Melbourne Cup has been given the green signal to go ahead as scheduled in November despite an outbreak of equine flu in the country.
“She played unbelievable. She fought well. She deserved to win.” - her opponent Serbian Jelena Jankovic.
Recently chosen as one of People’s Magazine’s annual 100 Most Beautiful People in the World, Venus Ebone Starr Williams, a 5 time grand slam winner has kept the nations chances alive in her home grand slam the 2007 US Open.
Top-seed Federer is going great guns as he produced a phenomenal display to see off a fired-up Andy Roddick 7-6 7-6 6-2 in a dazzling US Open quarter-final.
The American playing in front of his home crowd showed some astonishing forehand shots but could not survive the flawless display of power tennis, to face a 10th straight time defeat.
Lewis Hamilton’s probability of becoming the Formula One world champion in his rookie season once again got a stagger with fresh evidence surfacing that his team McLaren Mercedes, may have used 2007 championship rival Ferrari’s technical secrets on their cars. Ferrari currently trail McLaren by 11 points in the constructors’ standings. Earlier too, McLaren had got off scot-free facing similar charges after the July inquiry due to lack of sufficient evidence.
Hockey is going to be a nightmare for Indian cricket team?
Defending champion India stormed into the semifinals of the men’s field hockey Asia Cup with a 6-0 victory over Bangladesh on Tuesday.
