Coveted Masters golf green jacket nets nearly $700,000 in auction
(Reuters) – A green jacket owned by the winner of the nation’s first Masters Tournament in 1934 has sold at auction for nearly $700,000, the auction company said on Monday.
Football fan dies after fall at San Francisco 49ers’ game
(Reuters) – A San Francisco 49ers football fan fell from an elevated walkway to his death on Sunday at Candlestick Park during the team’s NFL season home opener, police said on Monday.
Swimmer Nyad to meet skeptics of her record Cuba to U.S. feat
MIAMI (Reuters) – U.S. long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad plans to meet a group of fellow endurance swimmers to answer skeptics about her record-breaking crossing of the Florida Straits last week.
Mexico face U.S. with little room for error
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mexico face the United States in Columbus, Ohio on Tuesday knowing that anything but a victory would seriously compromise their aim of a place in next year’s World Cup finals in Brazil.
Security not improving fast enough in region near Olympics: Putin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s president ordered intelligence agencies on Monday to step up efforts to secure a volatile region near next year’s Winter Olympics, saying the situation was not improving fast enough.
New Formula E series gains two corporate sponsors
LONDON (Reuters) – The new Formula E electric motor racing series has signed up technology company Qualcomm and logistics provider DHL as corporate sponsors before its launch next September.
IOC still to get back Armstrong’s Sydney Olympic medal
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Disgraced retired cyclist Lance Armstrong has yet to hand back his Sydney 2000 Olympic medal to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) nine months after he was stripped of it, officials said on Monday.
Donald pledges cash for every birdie and eagle in BMW event
(Reuters) – Former world number one Luke Donald will donate $1,000 for each birdie and $2,000 for every eagle he makes in this week’s BMW Championship in support of The First Tee of Greater Chicago youth development program.
For Billie Jean King, 40 years after feats, women have ‘so far to go’
BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) – The two women who battled in Sunday’s final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament earned prize money equal to their male counterparts and perhaps no person was more instrumental in bringing about that parity than Bill…
No doubting Thomas’s desire as Bjorn secures Shanghai spot
(Reuters) – Far from counting down the days towards the autumn of his career, Danish veteran Thomas Bjorn is still keen to show he can mix it with the young guns in golf’s elite tournaments.
