Goggin recalls Watson’s near-miss at 2009 Open
(Reuters) – The man who played with Tom Watson in the final round of the 2009 British Open believes, perversely, that a good putt on the penultimate hole may have cost the American an astonishing victory and a place in the record books.Watson, then 59,…
U.S. focused more on Rio berths than dominating Pan Ams
TORONTO (Reuters) – The United States have not set a medal target for the 2015 Pan American Games and are focused instead on the handful of sports that offer direct qualification to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, USOC officials said on Friday.
African team says racist abuse won’t detract from success
LIVAROT, France (Reuters) – The man who founded the first African team to race in the Tour de France said on Friday that racist abuse suffered by one of his riders in Austria this week could not deflect from its success in establishing Africa’s place i…
Italian Paolini fails dope test on Tour de France
FOUGERES, France (Reuters) – Italian Luca Paolini has been provisionally suspended after the Katusha rider failed a dope test for cocaine on the Tour de France, his team and the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Friday.
Clinical Djokovic crushes Gasquet to reach final
LONDON (Reuters) – Defending champion Novak Djokovic emphatically booked his place in a fourth Wimbledon final with a clinical 7-6(2) 6-4 6-4 defeat of gallant Frenchman Richard Gasquet on Friday.
Exclusive: Miami company described in U.S. soccer case as agreeing to pay bribe
(Reuters) – A Miami-based affiliate of Spanish media giant Imagina group is one of the unidentified sports marketing companies alleged in a U.S. indictment to have agreed to pay a bribe in a global soccer corruption scandal, sources told Reuters.
Losing to Djokovic is so nice, says Gasquet
LONDON (Reuters) – Richard Gasquet eloquently summed up what it feels like to be an also ran at Wimbledon on Friday after an elastic-limbed Novak Djokovic bounced the Frenchman out of the All England Club in the semi-finals.
Flag removal opens door for South Carolina to bid for NCAA championships
(Reuters) – South Carolina can host championship-level college sports events after the Confederate battle flag was removed from the grounds of the state capitol on Friday, National Collegiate Athletic Association President Mark Emmert said.
Muguruza has belief and knowhow to topple Serena
LONDON (Reuters) – A fresh-faced Spaniard who has a love-hate relationship with grass will be eager to prove in Saturday’s Wimbledon final that the mighty Serena Williams is as human as the next person with blood, and not ice, pumping through her veins…
FIFA official in Switzerland agrees to U.S. extradition
ZURICH (Reuters) – One of seven FIFA officials detained in Switzerland in a corruption probe has agreed to be extradited to the United States, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said on Friday.
