Honest golfer owns up to error no one would ever have known about

Pro golfer J.P. Hayes disqualified himself from the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament for accidentally using an illegal, prototype golf ball.
Hayes’ caddy pulled a ball out of his golf bag and tossed it to him. After two shots Hayes realised it wasn’t the same [...]

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Definitely NOT golf…

A greenskeeper at Connecticut’s Mill River Country Club was arrested this week for killing a skunk on the course with a golf club. A resident saw the incident and called the police. Kadeem Palmer, 19, was then arrested for cruelty to animals.
Annoyingly, there is no word on which club Palmer used to carry [...]

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Welsh rugby bosses not impressed with singer’s druggy past

Big-voiced - and big-chested - singer Katherine Jenkins admitted recently that she took cocaine and ecstasy when she first came to London. Big deal, you might think. But the frank admission has cost Jenkins her gig as the mascot of the Welsh Rugby Union - she had [...]

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Right back at you, All Blacks

Before Munster’s clash with the All Blacks last night, the Irish side’s quartet of Kiwis performed their own haka. To watch the New Zealand XV stand there, respectfully, and watch their own war dance acted out before them was truly a memorable moment in modern rugby union.
Munster’s mini haka was [...]

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English journeyman underestimates opposition

India beat the unbeatable Aussies - comfortably, too - in this autumn’s gripping Test series. Then they destroyed England in the first two one-day internationals, with more humiliation set to follow for Kevin Pietersen and his workmanlike team-mates.
If our maths is right, surely that entitles the Indians to call themselves world-beaters? They [...]

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American lady golfer gets it badly wrong

Paula Creamer is US golf’s pin-up girl. She is as famous for her on-course “style” as her swing, and goes by the nickname “Pink Panther” - she loves the colour pink, fact fans (yes, the picture is a clue).
Here she is at a recent tournament in South Korea, again [...]

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Tennis honey keeps clothes on for bubble bath. Boo

Yup, it’s just another Anna-K photo shoot, to remind the world that she still exists, and that she hasn’t yet made the inevitable transformation from young Russian sexpot to old Russian fishface. Give it time.
More photos after the jump:

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Former world No.1 left his heart in SW19

Roger Federer has admited that winning Wimbledon in 2009 is more important to him than regaining his No.1 world ranking from Rafael Nadal:
“While I would also love to beat Pete Sampras’s Grand Slam record of 14 titles, and also to regain my No. 1 ranking, I place winning [...]

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They breed ‘em tough in the Pacific Islands

Not much to report from the weekend’s rugby union internationals. England had their shorts pulled down by the improving Aussies, New Zealand eased to a win over the Irish, Scotland played their tartan socks off but didn’t have enough in the tank to beat the world champion Springboks, [...]

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Our friends at chickendinner are adamant it’s not over yet

England were thrashed in the first of their seven one-day internationals in India which means they need four victories out of six to win the series. The performance today suggested that there is absolutely no chance of that happening but our friends at chickendinner are convinced [...]

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