PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Rory McIlroy won two major championships at age 23. He was the youngest player since Tiger Woods to reach No. 1 in the world. He was won the money titles on the PGA Tour and European Tour in the same season.Now if he can just break par on the TPC at Sawgrass. Or at least make it to the weekend.McIlroy keeps showing signs that his game his emerging from an early seaso...
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"Squeaky-bum time" (n). The tense final stages of a league competition, especially from the point of view of the leaders. Coined by Sir Alex Ferguson.-- Oxford English Dictionary* * *The tempting thing to do whenever some major sporting event happens in another country — especially when it's something somewhat foreign to many of us — is to try and find an American equivalent that can put it all in...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Family and friends honored the memory of a Utah soccer referee at an emotional funeral service Wednesday evening just hours after the teenager who punched him before he fell into a coma was charged with homicide by assault.After an afternoon wake at a community center, a group of men carried a wooden casket with the remains of Ricardo Portillo in silence about a quarter mile ...
Alex Ferguson is retiring at the end of the season, bringing a close to a trophy-filled career of more than 26 years at Manchester United that established him as the most successful coach in British football history. "The decision to retire is one that I have thought a great deal about and one that I have not taken lightly," the 71-year-old Scotsman said in a statement on Wednesday. "It is the rig...
MANCHESTER, England (AP) -Text of statement by Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson announcing his retirement:"The decision to retire is one that I have thought a great deal about and one that I have not taken lightly. It is the right time.It was important to me to leave an organization in the strongest possible shape and I believe I have done so. The quality of this league winning squad, and t...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - The University of Michigan's 10-year dissociation from Chris Webber, Maurice Taylor and Louis Bullock has ended.Technically.The former Wolverines have to want to reconnect with the school. And, the institution has to welcome them back after they were part of one of the biggest scandals in NCAA history.Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon insisted the door is open."I've n...
Matt Harvey was so dominant, it seemed certain the Chicago White Sox would never score. Instead, each pitch raised more tantalizing questions: Would they ever get a hit, or even a runner?Harvey threw one-hit ball for nine innings in a nearly perfect performance and the New York Mets permitted just one baserunner all game in beating the White Sox 1-0 in the 10th Tuesday night.Harvey allowed only an...
NEW YORK (AP) - Jason Collins, the NBA veteran who last week announced he was gay, is disputing reports from publishing insiders who say he is shopping a book deal.Officials at three publishing houses told The Associated Press on Monday that they had been contacted about a planned memoir by Collins, the first active player in any of four major U.S. professional sports leagues to come out as gay. T...
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) - About the only thing Fred Couples and Colin Montgomerie had in common was a golf swing good enough to trust for a lifetime.Couples became the first American to reach No. 1 in the world and won the Masters by a blade of grass that kept his ball from trickling into Rae's Creek. Montgomerie found fame on the European Tour, where he won the Order of Merit a record seven time...
In those drizzly and touching moments after Orb won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, as his wonderful old trainer Shug McGaughey's face moved in slow motion from disbelief to uncertain joy to blinking tears, it was hard not to think of a single amazing statistic. The stat: Uber trainer Todd Pletcher has entered 29 horses in the Kentucky Derby – TWENTY NINE DIFFERENT HORSES – since Shug McGaughey la...