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Beckhams in LA

Beckhams invade LA

Saturday, 28th July 2007 at 2:01 pm

Reality TV appearance (Victoria), glossy magazine shoot, celebrity welcome party… it’s been an understated entrance for Brand Beckham in LA. An ankle injury - which may or may not have been sustained after accidentally standing on Tom Cruise at last …

Angel Cabrera

Angel Cabrera strikes a blow for the big men

Wednesday, 20th June 2007 at 12:11 am

He hails from the John Daly school of athletic golfers, a big, genial man with a ready smile and a command of English that’s better than he lets on, but still rather minimal. Until Sunday, however, he was some way …

Zach Johnson

Zach Johnson’s new green jacket

Monday, 9th April 2007 at 9:03 am

We’re used to the US Open providing a torrid test of golf, long courses and quick, unwatered greens combining most unkindly to make the world’s best golfers look distinctly ordinary. But Augusta? Always tough, certainly, but not quite this tough. …

Super Bowl XLI

Super Bowl XLI - the commercials

Tuesday, 6th February 2007 at 10:09 am

If you sat up through the small hours of Monday morning to see Peyton Manning direct the Colts past the Bears in pouring rain on DSTV, then you’ll have been tortured by the endless repeats of ESPN promos that ran on …

Tom Hicks

Flavour of the month

Friday, 2nd February 2007 at 7:22 am

Has Malcolm Glazer triggered American sports’ latest craze? When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner bought out Manchester United (a move not universally welcomed by United fans at the time; six points clear of Chelsea at the top of the Premiership going into …