Leading Men Lead the Field: Five Riveting Performances Make for a Stiff Competition
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By my capricious reckoning you would have to reach back to 1974 to find a comparably competitive and crowded lineup for the Tony Award for best actor in a play.
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Look at the field at the WTA Championships, it looks more like the Kremlin Cup than a tennis tournament in Los Angeles. Wednesdayâs first day of action had four of the five
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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland -- Along the way, each man has had to assess his lot in the world of golf. One had to examine his nerves, the other his spirit.
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Wide array of performers play to 68,000 crowd.
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Take a peek at some of the moves the pros are making.
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Daniel Chopra is now breathing the rarefied air of achievement on the PGA Tour, golfâs biggest stage, both on and off the golf course.
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If the PGA Tour is looking for a fight with Ernie Els, they may have just come to the right place. Els, who is hoping to become a five-time winner of the World Match Play Championship over Wentworth&#39;s demanding
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Four-time U.S. champions Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto's performance put them in first place as expected, but is neither perfect nor dominant.
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It was only the second round of the 100 meters, yet the world&#39;s top sprinters already were playing a lightning-quick game of &quot;Can You Top This?
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Hale Irwin became the first player to win a men's professional tour event five straight times Sunday, easily holding off Dana Quigley by five strokes in the Champions Tour's Turtle Bay Championship.
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There is a rattle in the PGA Tourâs new playoff system, the FedEx Cup, and Commissioner Tim Finchem put all his political agility on display on Wednesday.
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The Americans got off to a near-perfect start yesterday in the Presidents Cup, getting superb play from veterans and rookies alike in winning five and a half points out of the six alternate-shot matches at Royal Montreal. Despite a leader board covered with American red numbers, perhaps the most poignant moment of a gray afternoon was Jack Nicklaus, the United States captain, instructing Phil Mickelson and Woody Austin to concede a three-and-a-half-foot par putt on the 18th hole that assured Mike Weir of Canada and his International team its only point of the opening session.It was typical of Nicklaus, who famously conceded a putt about the same distance to Tony Jacklin in the 1969 Ryder Cup that allowed those matches to end in a tie. That gesture became a symbol of sportsmanship in match play between countries and continents. Then again, this was only the first day, and it was clear the Americans were in charge.
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Tens of thousands of patrons inside the Augusta National Golf Club gates couldn't have had any idea what was at stake as they watched practice rounds involving Phil Mickelson, John Huston, and John Daly before the 1999 Masters.
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The opening round of the three-million-US-dollar Paris Masters has produced some spectacular scenes as players displayed their strength at the last tournament of the Masters series.
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Stewart Cink was atop the leaderboard, and David Toms had the lead in the clubhouse. But with only 24 players completing second-round play in the rain-delayed NEC Invitational, it was hard to tell who had control.
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MELBOURNE -- Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick, and Lleyton Hewitt knew they needed to do something drastic. Roger Federer was winning practically every tournament, and the gap between him and everyone else in men's tennis was growing.
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Big arena, lots of players, stories at every turn. A week covering a tournament like the Deutsche Bank Championship leaves some lasting impressions. Just a sampling of the sights carried with me from this year's tournament at TPC Boston: