Injured world number one Rory McIlroy will not defend his title at next week’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and his withdrawal means Jordan Speith could take over the top spot in the rankings if the American wins the event in Akron, Ohio. “Best of luck to all the competitors and I look forward to returning in 2016.” His win at the Firestone Country Club last year carried him to world number one,
Injured world number one Rory McIlroy will not defend his title at next week’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and his withdrawal means Jordan Speith could take over the top spot in the rankings if the American wins the event in Akron, Ohio. “Best of luck to all the competitors and I look forward to returning in 2016.” His win at the Firestone Country Club last year carried him to world number one,
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady fired back at the NFL upholding a four-game ban on him in the “Deflate-gate” saga, taking to Facebook on Wednesday to defend himself. “I am very disappointed by the NFL’s decision to uphold the 4 game suspension against me,” Brady posted on his Facebook page. One of the most high-profile athletes in American sport, Brady was found by Goodell to have been at least
By Julian Linden KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Song Andong, the first Chinese-born player drafted to play in the National Hockey League, got a first-hand look on Wednesday at the giant shoes he is trying to fill. Since being picked this year by the New York Islanders, the 18-year-old Song has been billed as the NHL’s answer to Yao Ming, the towering Chinese basketballer who made the NBA such a big
– Woe to you o earth and sea, for the Dodge sends the Hellcat with wrath, because he knows the time is short. Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the Hellcat, for it is a Vehicle Identification Number. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six. For the well-heeled acolyte of the Beast, perhaps one of the few who wended his way through fake-out checkpoints to scope the
– For most people, a ’66 Dodge Dart is not what pops to mind when they think of a race car. But of the hundreds of thousands of mostly mundane Darts that plied the streets in the 1960s, this 1966 Dodge D/Dart is one of a tiny fraction that was built for track duty. – The D/Dart was a stripped-down version of the standard Dart GT, but Dodge took the
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– Emerging from an extremely brief shadow in the modern headlight technology wars, Audi has announced it will debut a concept car at this fall’s Frankfurt auto show featuring Matrix OLED headlights. After sparring with BMW over who’d be first to market with a laser headlight, Audi is moving to incorporate OLED (organic LED) lighting into its clever Matrix headlight technology, the one where a multitude of individual lights are
– Car television went plotz a few months ago with the sudden meltdown of Britain’s Top Gear. If only Jeremy Clarkson had first given a thought to old Woody Hayes or George S. Patton, two guys who accomplished a lot in life but are often remembered first (or second—certainly in the top five) for hitting an underling. You can scream and you can throw things, as Indiana’s Bobby Knight did,
Wanna see something cool? Head on over to this URL. Looks like a semi-broken Ford website, right? Go ahead and click through to the 2016 Ford Focus section—as of this writing, you can configure a 2016 Ford Focus RS on a website we’re pretty sure Ford didn’t want you to see. There you’ll find that the RS starts at $36,605 including destination and delivery fees. – First discovered by commenters at Jalopnik,
