Pride Comes To A Nasty Fall It’s been a rocky start for Australia and a very ironic one at that – what with the measure of unadulterated snob previously having been bestowed by Australia on “lesser” countries. We’re talking of Day 2 of the First Test in Dhaka – with ….
Gearing Up for the 2017 Presidents Cup Golf’s Presidents Cup has been played biennially since 1994 and consists of a series of men’s golf matches between the United States and an International Team representing the rest of the world – the rest of the world minus Europe, that is. The ….
Aviva Stadium To Host Debut Pro14 Rugby Final Dublin’s 51 700 seater Aviva Stadium will host the very first Pro14 Rugby final in 2018. Southern Kings CEO Charl Crous attended the official launch of the enlarged European Pro14 Tournament in Dublin on August 23. Rugby fever is in the air and ….
Cricket Australia Issues Stern Warning Cricket Australia has cracked down on almost 3,000 scalped tickets for December’s Ashes Test in Perth. The tickets were listed for sale on eBay at grossly inflated prices. Cricket Australia has said that it hoped that the confiscation of the tickets would serve as a ….
Sydney Spring Carnival Comes To Randwick Taking place from August to October each year, the Sydney Spring Carnival brings Australia’s harbour city to its feet. 2017 will see the event making its debut at Royal Randwick and promises to be one for the history books. The Carnival is made up ….
Badminton – World Championships, Glasgow Well Under Way The Badminton World Championships is now well under way and team India is raking in one victory after another. Kidambi Srikanth, Saina Nehwal and Sai Praneeth all secured pre-quarters berth after taking their respective oppositions to the cleaners on Wednesday. Saina, for ….
End Of A Golden Era For Tennis? 2017 has seen the steady rise of a persistent worry – that a Golden Era in Tennis is drawing to a close. This is quite in line with Andy Murray’s prediction during last November. Murray, having ended Novak Djokovic’s 123-week run as world’s ….
A Milestone For Spa-Francorchamps This year’s Belgian Grand Prix will serve as Spa-Francorchamps’ 50th Grand Prix event. The 19-turn circuit has been host to Formula One Grand Prix since 1925. This serves to warm the cockles of many a Grand Prix driver’s heart, but perhaps most of all, that of ….
Roses Secure Semi-Finals Spot in WRWC August 17 saw England defeating the US 47 – 26, effectively becoming the second team, after New Zealand, to secure a place in the semi-finals. The former world title holders are well on course to retain their title. The first quarter of the match ….
Undefeated Is The Word Another big one approaches: Terence Crawford vs. Julius Indongo, in Nebraska. Both men are undefeated champions. This – the undefeated factor – seems to be the making of real magic, as attested to by the absolute hype around the Mayweather/McGregor spectacle ahead of August 26. “The ….
