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British Open organizers are biding their time before deciding whether Turnberry should be removed from the championship rotation following comments by the course’s owner, Donald Trump, about Mexicans. Trump recently purchased Turnberry, a links resort on the west coast of Scotland that has hosted the British Open four times. The PGA of America announced last week it will move the Grand Slam of Golf from Trump’s course in Los Angeles.
Mike Trout flashed the skill that puts him at the front of baseball’s new generation, just moments after four of the all-time greats walked off the field. The AL beat the NL 6-3 Tuesday night and will open the World Series at home for the 10th time in 13 years. After Trout completed a career All-Star cycle in just his fifth big league season, Prince Fielder delivered.
Pete Rose came home for the All-Star Game and made a rare on-field appearance in the place where he’s still treated like a king. The hits king was voted one of Cincinnati’s Franchise Four players as part of a Major League Baseball promotion. Rose and Hall of Famers Johnny Bench, Barry Larkin and Joe Morgan were introduced on the field at Great American Ball Park before the All-Star Game on
Mike Trout became the first player in 38 years to lead off the All-Star Game with a home run, and the American League beat the National League 6-3 Tuesday night to secure home-field advantage in the World Series for the third straight year. Prince Fielder singled in the go-ahead run in the fifth inning off loser Clayton Kershaw, joining Trout in completing career All-Star cycles. Fielder added a sacrifice fly,
By Tony Jimenez ST ANDREWS, Scotland, July 15 (Reuters) – Jordan Spieth will draw on the memory of back-to-back wins at the end of last season when he begins his quest to become the first player in 63 years to capture the first three majors of the campaign. The American said it would be a simpler task to cope with jet-lag at this week’s British Open than it was in
By Martyn Herman ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) – After six years waiting for his first major championship, go-kart loving Australian Scott Arnold’s career picks up speed on Thursday when he tees it up in the British Open at St Andrews. “It’s funny, the last five years I tried to qualify for The Open I never got in and now it’s at St Andrews and I qualify, it’s quite surreal,” the
By Tom Esslemont LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As the business of international aid booms, rival charities are locked in a race to attract donors with some spending close to a fifth of their resources on fundraising, a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has found. The competition for funding is driving NGOs such as World Vision, Save The Children and Oxfam to invest more on attracting cash. The survey found that
By Martyn Herman ST ANDREWS, Scotland, July 15 (Reuters) – After six years waiting for his first major championship, go-kart loving Australian Scott Arnold’s career picks up speed on Thursday when he tees it up in the British Open at St Andrews. “It’s funny, the last five years I tried to qualify for The Open I never got in and now it’s at St Andrews and I qualify, it’s quite
Tom Watson says he is ready to play his last Open Championship at St Andrews this week, comparing it to “death”, but still leaving open the door for another crack at the tournament that has defined his career. The 65-year-old American needed a special exemption just to get into this year’s 144th Open to make his 38th appearance and walk a last time over the Swilcan Bridge in the footsteps
– The new, second-generation Audi R8 is launching with a 5.2-liter naturally aspirated V-10 as its sole engine offering, the previous entry-level 4.2-liter V-8 having been jettisoned from the lineup. Now Motoring is quoting two senior Audi executives as saying that the car will get a second engine offering, one that features turbocharged power. – The ten-cylinder in the 2016 R8 comes in two strengths: The standard version makes 540
