YouTube to show live cricket: Indian Premier League cricket games will be streamed live on YouTube in every country except the US.

posted by JJ to other at 10:55 AM - 8 comments

The Guardian's Sport Quiz of the Year: a fairly British-centric 100-question sport quiz from the Guardian. Answers will appear on the same link on New Year's Eve.

posted by JJ to general at 07:55 AM - 4 comments

Champions League Draw: and Europa League Draw completed. Beckham will return to Manchester to face United with AC Milan, and the Special One will return to London to lead Inter Milan against Chelsea.

posted by JJ to soccer at 08:19 AM - 6 comments

Doctor who treated Woods faces FBI investigation into doping claims: reads the slightly inflamatory headline atop a story about Anthony Galea, a Toronto-based doctor who faces an investigation after a medicine bag belonging him was found to contain human growth hormones and Actovegin. Galea has links with several top athletes and worked with Tiger Woods during the golfer's recovery from knee surgery last year.

posted by JJ to golf at 06:31 AM - 19 comments

Federer loses it [SLYT]: The curse of the Gillette advert strikes again. First Henry, then Woods, and now Roger has lost control of himself too.

posted by JJ to tennis at 06:59 AM - 1 comment

John Daly thinks we should stop being nasty to Tiger: But then, he also thinks a movie should be made of his own life story. He thinks Kevin James should play him before his weight loss while Matt Damon should play the new svelte Daly. "I saw [Matt Damon] in The Legend of Bagger Vance, now if I could get him to take the club back further, he'd be perfect," Daly said. "The problem is who is going to play all my ex-wives?"

posted by JJ to golf at 05:24 AM - 27 comments

Rumble in the Circus: Standing snarling over Sonny Liston? Shadow boxing on the bottom of a swimming pool? Leaning into the ropes as George Foreman pummels his kidneys? Stooping, shaking, to light the Olympic flame? How about Ali flapping about on the canvas while an 18 stone wrestler sits on his face? Who wants to remember Ali that way? There are some things a person should never have to see happen to a man like Ali. This is the story of one of them. [from Andy Bull in today's Guardian - a look back at the 1977 contest between Muhammad Ali and the Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki]

posted by JJ to boxing at 12:14 PM - 7 comments

One-legged golfer Manuel De Los Santos : Playing in the Dunhill Links in Scotland this week, he managed a remarkable individual score of 76 (+4) round Kingsbarns yesterday (combining with his professional partner Richard Bland for an opening pro-am score of 66). The fact that he plays off a 3 handicap is even more impressive when you realise that he is doesn't use a prosthetic leg when he plays golf. Refusing to take a golf buggy, he also insists on walking the full 18 holes using a set of crutches. [video 1] [video 2]

posted by JJ to golf at 08:46 AM - 6 comments

Extra Time: Michael Owen's controversially late winner in the Manchester Derby on Sunday inspired the Guardian to investigate how much extra time referees typically allow at the end of Manchester United's home games. To the surprise of absolutely no one, it would seem that Man Utd do 'benefit from an imbalance in the amount of stoppage time that is added to their matches'.

posted by JJ to soccer at 05:37 AM - 22 comments

Gary Nicklaus : 3rd son of Jack, has entered the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament. 40 years old and several years after being reinstated as an amateur, he will tee it up in a pre-qualifier Sept. 22-25 at the Golf Club of Dallas. If he makes it through to final qualifying, he'll be playing at a course his dad designed. Also playing will be Arnold Palmer's grandson, Sam Saunders, while one of Jack's grandsons, Nick O'Leary, looks set to become a star football player.

posted by JJ to golf at 09:42 AM - 3 comments

Top 100 Golf Courses in the World: according to Golf Magazine. An explanation of how they ranked them, and discussion of the results from Mark Garrod. There are 51 American courses, 11 Scottish, 9 English, 7 Irish and some others from: Australia (6), Japan (4), Canada (2), New Zealand (2), Wales (1), Spain (1), Portugal (1), France (1), South Africa (1), Dominican Republic (1), Mexico (1), South Korea (1).

posted by JJ to golf at 09:19 AM - 7 comments

Tiger's Roar: The world number one was back to winning ways at the weekend. He let it rip [video] on the back nine (allegedly, although CBS denies it), but it wasn't the first time. How do his farts rate compared to Jack's?

posted by JJ to golf at 09:34 AM - 14 comments

The Chain Gang: - 194 inmates, escorted by 124 prison guards and sports instructors, will set off from Lille and cycle about 1,500 miles, ending up in Paris. They will have to cycle in a pack, will not be ranked and, for obvious reasons, breakaway sprints will not be allowed.

posted by JJ to other at 07:23 AM - 5 comments

The Naked Golfer: - Bernhard Langer climbed a tree and faced down a bear, Woody Austin took a swim, and now Henrik Stenson strips to his underwear in order to try and save a shot or two.

posted by JJ to golf at 07:18 AM - 11 comments

Guess who's back?: Meow.

posted by JJ to golf at 09:20 AM - 7 comments

Photos from the Wimbledon men's final, 2008: Marc Aspland is the multi-award winning Chief Sports Photographer for the Times. This is his collection of photographs, and some of his comments on them, from what he considers to be "possibly the best men's final I shall ever see in my lifetime". If you need a quick reminder, there are highlights of the match here, and some terrible poetry reading from the main protagonists here.

posted by JJ to tennis at 10:19 AM - 5 comments

Bolt wins Olympic 100m and breaks the world record: Michael Johnson can't believe what he's watching. The best bit? He didn't even bother to tie both of his shoelaces.

posted by JJ to olympics at 03:54 AM - 15 comments

ESPN's Top Ten All Time Golf Shots : [part 2] [part 3]

posted by JJ to golf at 10:42 AM - 4 comments

An Instant Classic: - Single link YouTube post. "Unbelievable. I knew he'd hole it."

posted by JJ to golf at 02:42 AM - 52 comments

Cardiff's FA Cup Run... in Lego.: A dedicated fan has reenacted Cardiff City's journey to today's FA Cup Final in Lego. With some very odd music in places. [part one, part two]

posted by JJ to soccer at 06:41 AM - 4 comments

First Day of Term: Nine years and a day after it happened, JJ looks back at his first round as a professional golfer. Despite the hour, the temperature was already into the mid-twenties. Despite the temperature, I was shivering. It wasn’t nerves; it was terror.

posted by JJ to commentary at 08:12 PM - 0 comments

Jack talks to Golf Digest: - that's Nicholson, not Nicklaus - "You don't understand golf. I can play this game as well as Tiger ... for a very short time. There's one shot a hole between me and the best golfers in the world..." [printable version]

posted by JJ to golf at 04:14 AM - 10 comments

Top 50 Sporting Injuries: - a list from the Times.

posted by JJ to general at 04:13 AM - 36 comments

Sport is killing the planet: and Gary Player hates monks. Or so George Monbiot would have us believe.

posted by JJ to general at 05:10 AM - 14 comments

England beat France: and South Africa beat Argentina, lining up a final in the Rugby World Cup between two teams who met in the pool stages a month ago. South Africa won that game 36-0 and England looked like they might be lucky to escape their group, but somehow, everything has changed. Maybe it's the broccoli Martin Corry eats for breakfast, or maybe rugby is a game that values will over skill. They have struggled with the title of World Champions, but could England do the unthinkable and become the first team to ever retain the RWC on Saturday night? The bookies think not, but England have already proved them wrong twice.

posted by JJ to other at 08:37 AM - 16 comments