ISRAEL Folau, the 18-year-old Melbourne sensation who produced one of the most memorable debut seasons in living memory, now has to duck through doors within the club’s headquarters after an off-season growth spurt.
Folau stood 190cm and tipped the scales at 93kg when he arrived in Melbourne for pre-season training last January.
CHAMINDA Vaas claimed 4-28 as England were bowled out for 81 in just 30.5 overs in the third and final Test against Sri Lanka.
England finished the day in disarray after being asked to follow-on, reaching the close on no wicket for two and still trailing by 416 runs with two days left in the game.
It was England’s first total under 100 in five years, since making 79 in the Brisbane Ashes Test of 2002-2003.
The title of this post is actually the title of a book by Lorne Rubenstein and Jeff Neuman that my brother-in-law gave me for my birthday, along with a volume of golf short stories edited by William Hallberg called Perfect Lies.
A Disorderly Compendium of Golf is a random collection of anecdotes, trivia, rules, tricks, nicknames, history, quotes and more. As the authors write in the introduction, “We … share a fascination for the minutiae of the game.”
By: Adam Haymer
Devilbiss has been in business for more than 100 years. Founded back in 1888 when Dr. DeVilbiss made the first atomizer by combining an oil can, some tubing, and a bulb. Today they are the leader in the automotive refinishing products including the Devilbiss air compressor.
It was the son of Dr. DeVilbiss, Thomas that actually designed the spray gun for those automotive challengers. It would prove to be revolutionary reducing drying times on lacquer paint finishes to hours rather than weeks.
Watching the highly distilled You tube clips of Karim Benzema, one admired his speed, his clinical finishes, and the ease with which he scored those goals. But looking more closely there were a number of occasions when the defense were caught out of position, slow to read or react, and failed to put in a timely tackle. Against a quality defence, Benzema, even with his impeccable nose for goals, would have been pegged back a notch or two.
You go into the Ligue numbers and it becomes clear that teams are conceding far too many goals. Apart from Lyons and Nancy, the top two teams, who have healthy goal differentials, the rest of the teams live on wafer thin margins. The third and fourth placed teams are giving up 20+ goals which in the EPL would have dropped them down to 10th and 11th spot. In comparisons the other Leagues, the Serie, La Liga, and the EPL, the top placed teams on an average enjoy much larger margins of safety. The top teams, even in a more comparable league like the Eredivisie, give up far less goals.
Tiger Woods
HOUSTON – Tiger Woods, Lorena Ochoa and Jay Haas were voted players of the year on their respective tours by the Golf Writers Association of America on Wednesday, the second straight year they won the awards.
Woods, who has won the award a record nine times in the last 11 years, had seven victories on the PGA Tour, captured his 13th career major at the PGA Championship and easily won the inaugural FedEx Cup by winning the final two playoff events.
Luca di Montezemolo
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo says he plans to invite the British photocopy employee who ignited this summer’s spy scandal involving the McLaren Formula One team to Italy.
Speaking at the team’s year end celebration at Maranello, di Montezemolo paid tribute to the unnamed employee, saying if it had not been for him we would not have known anything about what was going on.
Kyle Okposo
University of Minnesota sophomore Kyle Okposo has made the decision to forgo the remainder of the 2007-08 season and his career with the Golden Gophers following the World Junior Hockey Championship where he will play for Team USA.
”While I’m disappointed Kyle is leaving at this point of the season, his dream has been to play pro hockey,” Minnesota coach Don Lucia said in a press release. ”It is unfortunate that the Islanders put him in a very difficult position. I think our team has made strides the last few weeks and I’m looking forward to the second half of the season.”
Ah, Bill Parcells. Can’t live without him. Can’t —
Hey! Where’d he go?
AUSTRALIA have regained the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy with relative ease, thanks to a masterful century from captain Ricky Ponting and a good, all-round bowling performance.
Ponting was equal parts sublime and brutal in scoring an unbeaten 134 from 133 balls as Australia reached 6-282 from their 50 overs in the third and final Chappell-Hadlee Trophy game at Bellerive Oval.
In reply, New Zealnd lost early wickets and never recovered, despite some fine lower-order batting once the result had already been decided. The Kiwis were eventually bowled out for 168, but were 7-88 at one stage.