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The return of running rugby?
Exciting though they were the later stages of last year's Rugby World Cup, culminating in a try-less Final, were not exactly feasts of running rugby.
Tuesday, February 19 - 2008 at 09:07

Football's global marketplace
The proposal that a number of matches in the English Premier League should be played outside of England in order to help promote the league around the world has met with a predicable storm of hostility by English fans. Two-thirds of fans polled by a national newspaper were against the idea and there is little support in much of the media as well.
Monday, February 11 - 2008 at 23:13

Tiger roars to comeback win in Dubai
From the moment Tiger Woods strided toward the practice area one hour before his final round of the Dubai Desert Classic, he attracted hordes of followers, and he did not disappoint.
United Arab Emirates: Sunday, February 03 - 2008 at 17:12 |

Tiger's Desert Classic pride
Halfway though his final round in the Dubai Desert Classic Tiger Woods was very out of sorts. He had just had two bogeys in four holes which had negated his good start to the round and seemingly put him out of contention. The bookmakers certainly thought so and odds of 14/1 against a Tiger victory were generally available - I wonder how many punters had the prescience to take them?
United Arab Emirates: Sunday, February 03 - 2008 at 16:41

The romance of sport
Whilst it is the darker side of sport which often grabs the headlines it is the romance of sport which enlivens the spirit.
Tuesday, January 29 - 2008 at 11:46

What do they know of golf…?
On the Golf Channel a couple of weeks ago, presenters Nick Faldo and Kelly Tilghman were commenting in a light-heated way about the about the supremacy of Tiger Woods and what could be done about it. Faldo said: 'To take Tiger on, maybe they should just gang up on him for a while.'
Monday, January 21 - 2008 at 11:44 |

World's-best golfers greeted by blue Abu Dhabi skies
After three days of pelting rain in the UAE the clouds have disappeared and given way to bright sunshine for most of the morning on Thursday, just in time for the start of the opening round of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship.
United Arab Emirates: Thursday, January 17 - 2008 at 13:22 |

Marion Jones - the tip of the iceberg?
Whilst the disgraced American athlete Marion Jones has been deceitful and foolish - criminally so as it has turned out - few watching her tearful but dignified speech on the courthouse steps can fail to have been moved by the hubris of her fall from grace.
Tuesday, January 15 - 2008 at 16:36 |

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