Smooth at jazz, great at golf

Well, the great news for Glenn Hoddle is that his favourite musician Kenny G is one heck of a golfer. According to Golf Digest, he’s the second most excellent golf-playing musician around. The bad news for Hod is that Alice Cooper, obviously a satanist, is about eleventh.
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Tennis, China Open style

The Olympics showed that the Chinese are not afraid to put their own stamp on sporting events, and at the China Open the country has displayed its own brand of tennis tournament. The first thing that you will see at the China Open but probably not at Wimbledon is a group of [...]

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Two sports collide for advert

While golf and rugby are both equally worthy of Polite Applause, the politeness of exponents of the two sports on the field of play is not so equal. The point is demonstrated by this advert for Singapore Open…

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Can Kev do it without Mikey?

Much is going to be garnered from the 2008/2009 India trip. Can Harmy leave the house without becoming tearful and frightened? Is Pietersen really all that? And will anyone have the kind of nerveless mind to cope with balls turning at acute baffling angles? That man might well have been [...]

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Her measurements are 34-24-35, whatever that means…

Yeah, we know what you’re thinking: that clay court specialist Guillermo Canas has a blessed life. Not only is he one of just two men to beat Federer in consecutive tournaments (along with Nadal), but he gets to bed down most evenings with a young supermodel called Fabiana (pictured).

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Miracle man heals six weeks ahead of schedule

England fly-half Danny Cipriani is set to make his Wasps comeback against Bath tomorrow evening after defying medical advice to return six weeks earlier than expected. The 20-year-old has been out of action since suffering a fractured ankle dislocation in the Premiership semi-final in May, ironically against Bath. [...]

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Number one will be below par for 18 months

Bad news for golf fans, good news for any players hoping to pick up some winners’ cheques on the tour. Tiger Woods has revealed that his recent knee surgery will prevent him from getting back to his best until 2010. The world number one has been out [...]

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Don’t call this man Ronaldo… he’ll get very upset! 
 
It appears that Wasps’ favourite son is having trouble figuring out why his relationship with Kelly Brook is causing him so much grief.“I don’t go clubbing so much these days and people are just trying to label me. I don’t really understand it but I suppose people have a [...]

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World’s second greatest player goes shopping…

Once the tennis season has finished, you’d assume that male stripper Rafael Nadal might relax enough for his left arm to deflate down to around normal size. But no, as things stand, it’s on a three-bags-to-one ratio with his right arm. Will those arms ever resemble one another? Computer says [...]

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Is the Scotsman becoming an adopted cockney? 

 
Prior to his US Open campaign, Andy Murray was the lucky recipient of a signed West Ham shirt, virtue of the fact that he shares a psychologist with the East London club. It took a while, but the World No.4 has since been bitten by the football bug and is now a fully fledged [...]

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