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NBA players and brothers Pau and Marc Gasol on Wednesday were awarded Spain’s Princess of Asturias award for sport for their succesful basketball careers and extensive community services. The award foundation hailed Chicago Bulls centre Pau, 34, and his younger brother Marc, 30, as “extraordinary sportsmen who have combined major sporting achievements with exemplary social work”. The 50,000-euro ($54,000) award is one of eight prizes handed out yearly by a
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc will broadcast the Oct. 25 National Football League game between the Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars in London in the first live-stream of an NFL game, the league said. The International Series game will be streamed exclusively free of charge on Yahoo properties including Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Screen and Tumblr, the NFL said on Wednesday. Yahoo paid at least $20 million for the streaming rights, technology
Cleveland’s LeBron James and Golden State’s Stephen Curry have powered their teams into an NBA Finals showdown, but only one club can complete a fairy-tale run to a long-awaited crown. James, a four-time NBA Most Valuable Player, is on the brink of realizing the dream that pushed him to leave the Miami Heat last July and return to the Cavaliers, who could become Cleveland’s first major team sports champion since
By Peter Rutherford SEOUL (Reuters) – An Byeong-hun’s victory at last month’s BMW PGA Championship could help open the door to Olympic and Presidents Cup berths, but the South Korean golfer knows he has a long way to go to match the exploits of his sporting parents. An achieved the biggest win of his career in the lucrative European Tour event at Wentworth and his subsequent vault up the world
By Peter Rutherford SEOUL, June 3 (Reuters) – An Byeong-hun’s victory at last month’s BMW PGA Championship could help open the door to Olympic and Presidents Cup berths, but the South Korean golfer knows he has a long way to go to match the exploits of his sporting parents. An achieved the biggest win of his career in the lucrative European Tour event at Wentworth and his subsequent vault up
-It was only a matter of time. – After hitting the rev limiter at “only” 195 mph in a black supercharged 2015 Mustang GT with 717 horses, the folks at Hennessey Performance had one singular goal in mind: – The 200 mph barrier. – Clearly, the 717 horsepower provided by the tuner’s HPE700 kit wasn’t enough—never mind that the limitation seemed to be gearing, not power. Enter the HPE750 Supercharged
– Even by the high standards of eccentricity set by Britain’s small sports-car makers, Bristol was always in a class of its own. This is the carmaker that made Morgan look like Mitsubishi. – Bristol’s former boss, Tony Crook, refused to let journalists drive its cars for many years on the (possibly reasonable) grounds that they “wouldn’t understand them.” The company last published production figures in 1981, when it built
-The standard open differential in most cars is a brilliant piece of engineering, allowing you to take the tightest turns without fighting your tires or tearing apart your drivetrain. But even if you understand implicitly how a car’s differential works, it’s kind of difficult to explain. – That’s why this instructional film from 1937 is so fantastic. It simplifies the car differential down to its most basic representation—three sticks of
-What’s an automaker to do when customers abandon their mid-size sedans in hot pursuit of crossovers and pickups? The smart ones respond with irresistible crossovers and pickup trucks. The brilliant ones do the same without turning a cold shoulder to products they’ve nurtured for decades. READ MORE ›› –
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