For a change, Tiger Woods got off to a good start. Woods rebounded from a dismal U.S. Open with a 4-under-par 66 in Thursday’s opening round of The Greenbrier Classic, four shots behind leader Scott Langley. Helped by a morning rain that softened the Old White TPC course in West Virginia, Woods posted his lowest score of the season and matched his best in relation to par.
Graeme McDowell’s hopes of pulling off a rare hat-trick of title wins at the French Open bit the dust at Le Golf National on Friday. In an uncustomarily scrappy round, on one of his favourite courses, McDowell had three bogeys and two double-bogeys.
(Reuters) – Jose Fernandez made a triumphant return after more than a year out with injury when he hit a solo home run and pitched a winning game for the Miami Marlins on Thursday. “I was kind of joking around today, saying, ‘I’m going to try to hit it out’,” Fernandez told reporters.
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– The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission has cleared the final legal hurdle to its imposition of Nissan’s NV200 as the city’s predominant yellow cab, ending a journey that began in 2011, when Nissan won the $1 billion contract to supply the vehicles. – A group of taxi owners had challenged the Commission’s authority to mandate the NV200 for use as a NYC taxi. Currently, 47 different models
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– Very few nameplates have been around as long as this magazine. The Camaro wasn’t there at the very beginning, but, having made its debut in 1967, it’s still one of the oldest model names on sale today. And when it celebrates its own milestone of 50 years in 2017, the Camaro will have a useful emblem with which to mark the occasion: this all-new sixth-generation car. READ MORE ››
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– From the July 2015 issue – Our Gearbox section was formalized in 2008, but we’ve been doing reviews of automotive accessories and upgrades since the Sports Cars Illustrated days. The progress that’s taken place over our 60-year history hasn’t spared the gadget, and we’ve occasionally been there to chronicle in-car technology’s relentless march forward (or backward). Here are some of the automotive breakthroughs we’ve held in our hot little
