Golf's biggest prize will be awarded at the European Tour's season finale in Dubai as part of changes to the final three Rolex Series events. The winner of the DP World Tour Championship will now pocket a cheque for $US3 million ($4.2 million), a jump from the $1.33 million won by Englishman Danny Willett last year. Spoils: Englishman Danny Willett […]

PHILADELPHIA — While writing a sermon in September, Cheryl Pyrch, the pastor of Summit Presbyterian Church, needed an assist. On the topic of greatness and Jesus Christ, she wanted to open with recollections of greats in other spheres. She didn’t have to look very far for a source. Having encountered Wilt Chamberlain in passing almost 40 years ago, she decided […]

LONDON (AFP) – Anthony Joshua will fight in the United States for the first time when he defends his IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight titles against Jarrell Miller at Madison Square Garden on June 1, his promoter announced on Wednesday (Feb 13). After abandoning plans to fight again at Wembley on April 13, he will instead attempt to muscle in […]

Tottenham vs Dortmund – Prediction, tips and odds Spurs are flying despite their injury problems while Borussia Dortmund sit top of the Bundesliga. And the tie is all about the homecoming of England starlet Jadon Sancho. Sancho has quickly become Dortmund’s key man and he’s 10/1 with Betway to score and assist. Both are brimming with attacking options despite injury […]

But the first goals Oldham Athletic scored under the new management of Paul Scholes were pure class. Pure Scholes, in fact. And at his second home of Boundary Park he might just create his very own Theatre of Dreams one of these days. Certainly on the evidence of the stunning strikes and flowing moves that tore Yeovil apart. Scholes debut […]

Less than two months after being axed from the Socceroos, it appears Tomi Juric is being forced out of his Swiss club FC Luzern. The 27-year-old played a full 90 minutes for Luzern against Neuchatel Xamax on Sunday, in his seventh Swiss Super League appearance this season. On the move? Tomi Juric.Credit:AAP Despite that, the Luzerner Zeitung reports that Juric […]

England won four of their six Tests this winter – but that only tells half the story. A whitewash win in Sri Lanka looked set to be followed by a whitewash defeat in the Caribbean before Joe Root’s century and Mark Wood’s searing five-for helped the tourists to a consolation 232-run win in the final fixture in St Lucia – […]

England prop Mako Vunipola has been ruled out of the Six Nations Championship with an ankle ligament injury, the Rugby Football Union said on Tuesday. Injury blow: England enforcer Mako Vunipola will miss the remainder of the Six Nations.Credit:PA Vunipola picked up the injury during England's 44-8 victory over France on Sunday and is expected to be out action for […]

The Ligue 1 champs are taking on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's rejuvenated troops at Old Trafford. And their supporters have brought quite the atmosphere with them from Paris with the stadium filled with smoke from red flares. Many were expecting Manchester United to tumble out as the team toiled under Jose Mourinho. But since Solskjaer – who won the Champions League […]

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am never fails to rattle Darius Rucker’s nerves. This year though, Rucker, the three-time Grammy Award winning musician, had more to fret about than hitting a spectator or getting in the way of his pro partner, Kenny Perry. “Now you’re scared that somebody’s going to come call a rules violation on you […]