Masters champ Jordan Spieth enjoys slipping on his green jacket while watching television around the house, but he says winning the first Grand Slam of his career isn’t going to change who he is. The 21-year-old American showed he can shine on the brightest stage at The Masters in April, rolling to a record-setting triumph after being runner-up in 2014. “I put it on last week,” Spieth said Monday of
By Mark Lamport-Stokes UNIVERSITY PLACE, Washington (Reuters) – The rapid decline of Tiger Woods’ golf game has stunned his fellow players and the fans but Jason Day believes the former world number one can work his way back if he can improve his form off the tee. Australian Day played nine holes with Woods in practice on Monday for this week’s U.S. Open at Chambers Bay and was hugely impressed
By Mark Lamport-Stokes UNIVERSITY PLACE, Washington, June 15 (Reuters) – The rapid decline of Tiger Woods’ golf game has stunned his fellow players and the fans but Jason Day believes the former world number one can work his way back if he can improve his form off the tee. Australian Day played nine holes with Woods in practice on Monday for this week’s U.S. Open at Chambers Bay and was
Mike Malone, the former coach of the Sacramento Kings, has been hired as the new coach of the Denver Nuggets, the NBA club announced Monday. The Kings went 39-67 under Malone in just over a season with the team. Sacramento fired Malone after an 11-13 start last season, the team going 2-7 after standout DeMarcus Cousins suffered a viral infection.
-Jaguar Land Rover is showing off a prototype Range Rover Sport that can be remote-controlled via smartphone. Your James Bond fantasies are one step closer to reality. – The experimental prototype Remote Control Range Rover Sport does exactly what the name implies: Via a smartphone app, the driver can pilot the vehicle from a short distance away, controlling steering, accelerator and brake, gear shift position, and selection of high or
– Honda is adding 1.04 million more airbag inflators as part of the ever-expanding Takata airbag recall. – The company said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, after reviewing Takata’s revised estimate of 34 million defective inflators, told Honda to increase its earlier May recall expansion of 350,000 cars. The new recall is for passenger-side airbags on 2003–2007 Accord and 2001–2005 Civic models—two vehicles with the highest defect rates uncovered in
-For 2016, the Jaguar XJ gets its first thorough makeover since 2010. And you’ll have to squint extra hard to spot the changes. Or, if we’re being honest, any XJ on the road at all. – That the current XJ doesn’t appear in any way outdated after six model years is testament to two things: Ian Callum deserves his big salary, and XJs—and indeed, all Jaguars—sell in very limited quantities. Be it
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– Lo! News from an oft-overlooked corner of Mercedes-Benz’s droptop lineup: For 2016, the SLK-class roadster drops its manual-transmission option—it was the only U.S.-spec Benz available with a stick—and swaps its standard turbocharged four-cylinder engine for a new (more powerful) turbo four. A new automatic transmission and a name change from SLK250 to SLK300 also accompany the changes.– – It’s worth noting that the four-cylinder SLK’s new name will be short-lived, as next
-Few brands have ascended from near oblivion as convincingly as has Kia. Run your eyes down the flanks of the resculpted 2016 Sorento and it’s hard to envision products that were once bait for subprime buyers shopping for low monthly payments. Kia’s 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty introduced more than a decade ago helped erase some memories of bottom-of-the-barrel quality and subpar resale values in preceding years. But the advent of Peter
