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(Reuters) – British yacht-racing champion and two-time Olympic medalist Andrew “Bart” Simpson was killed on Thursday when his vessel capsized in San Francisco Bay during training for the America’s Cup, his team said. Simpson, 36, who won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, was sailing on the Artemis, Sweden’s entry in [...]
(Reuters) – Alex Ferguson, Britain’s longest-serving and most decorated soccer manager, will retire at the end of the season after more than 26 years and nearly 1,500 matches at the helm of Manchester United, he announced on Wednesday. The 71-year-old Scot ended intense speculation that he was about to call time on his career by [...]
(Reuters) – The connections of Kentucky Derby winner Orb have already set their sights on trying to complete the Triple Crown after their colt pulled up well from his victory in the first leg. Shug McGaughey, the Kentucky-based trainer of Orb, wasted no time declaring his intentions to run the three-year-old in the remaining two [...]
(Reuters) – Rafael Nadal will not be protected with a higher seeding at the French Open, tournament director Gilbert Ysern said on Saturday. Roland Garros committee member Guy Forget suggested last month that the Spaniard, who has slipped to fifth in the world rankings, should be protected to avoid a potential quarter-final clash with world [...]
(Reuters) – Match officials often face a torrent of abuse from angry players and on some occasions the attacks can turn violent. Rarely are the roles reversed, yet Chechen linesman Musa Kadyrov lost his composure in a Russian fixture on Sunday and launched a vicious assault on one of the players. The incident occurred at [...]
(Reuters) – The founder and managing director of Prim Capital Corporation has been charged with attempting to defraud the National Basketball Association players’ union out of $3 million with a bogus contract, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said. A complaint unsealed on Thursday charges Ohio-based Prim Capital founder Joseph Lombardo, 72, with attempted wire fraud, attempted [...]
(Reuters) – The National Football League will step up its efforts to fight discrimination based on sexual orientation, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said on Wednesday. The action comes after at least three college football players said they had been asked about their sexual orientation during NFL recruitment interviews earlier this year. As a [...]
(Reuters) – A talented international field including last year’s champions Wesley Korir and Sharon Cherop assembled on Monday for the 11th Boston marathon with Kenyans and Ethiopians again expected to dominate. Korir battled record temperatures last year to win in two hours 12 minutes 40 seconds but conditions are expected to be much more conducive [...]
(Hot favorite and four-times champion Tiger Woods has been grouped with Britain’s Luke Donald and American Scott Piercy for the first two rounds of this week’s Masters.) (Reuters) – Jack Nicklaus was startled to learn that Tiger Woods has not won a major in nearly five years but the golfing great is convinced his younger [...]
(Reuters) – Animal Kingdom, ridden by Joel Rosario, held off a late charge by Red Cadeaux to win the $10 million Dubai World Cup by a comfortable two lengths at odds of 11-2 at Meydan on Saturday. Red Cadeaux, ridden by Gerald Mosse, finished second nearly five lengths clear of Ryan Moore on Planteur who, [...]
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