Hold on to your hybrids everyone! Golf Girl TV is revving up for an ultra exciting 2008 season. We’re putting the finishing touches on a new studio, and we’ve got some stellar stories lined up. The first episode of 2008 will air next week and we’ll be biweekly after that.
Additionally, 2008…early 2008…will see the debut of Golf Girl TV live! The first ever live interactive golf talk show! We’ll be discussing controversial and provocative issues surrounding our sport… as well as the lighter side… and you’ll be able to get right in there and participate! I’ll keep you posted on a schedule, but I expect the first show to air before the end of this month.
SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING will set the stage for another fantastic year of world-class boxing when flashy, charismatic Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi defends his International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior welterweight title against mandatory challenger and IBF No. 1 contender, Herman “The Black Panther” Ngoudjo, on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008, live on SHOWTIME at 9 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west coast).
Year end is a time for reflection, for considering what went well, and what should have been better, during the previous 12 months before they are consigned to memory. For two 22-year-olds in opposition at Upton Park on Saturday the verdict on 2007 will be very different. Cristiano Ronaldo has had a year to cherish, Anton Ferdinand has had 12 months to forget. Such, though, is the capriciousness of football fate that only Ferdinand will approach New Year’s Eve on a high.
The Tiananmen Square clock began a one-year countdown in August
In the entirely unlikely event of anyone in China happening to forget the importance of 2008, there is a large digital clock next to Tiananmen Square to remind them.
The clock counts the days, hours and minutes to the start of the Olympic Games in August next year.
The FA Cup sponsored by E.ON Third Round Proper Saturday 5 January 2008 Winning clubs receive £40,000 The FA Live TV fee is £150,000 per club. Click here for fixtures
The FA Cup’s Third Round will be played this weekend and they say there might be snow on the way. In one year, some time ago, the weather was so bad that the round took a colossal 66 days to complete!
1963 was the year of “The Big Freeze”, when snow and ice covered football grounds all over the country for several weeks. The scheduled date for the Third Round was 5 January, but only three of the 32 ties were played. They were Plymouth Argyle v West Bromwich Albion (1-5), Preston North End v Sunderland (1-4) and Tranmere Rovers v Chelsea (2-2).
WBO number one lightweight contender Anthony Peterson will face a new foe this Friday in the co-feature bout on ShoBox from the Hard Rock Cafe Resort and Hotel in Biloxi, MS.
Peterson (25-0, 18 KO’s) will now face “El Cubano Mexicano,” Jose Antonio Izquierdo (16-1-1, 13 KO’s). No word yet on whether Peterson’s NABO Lightweight title will still be on the line.
Izquierdo, a native of Pina Del Rio, Cuba who now fights out of Chihuahua, Mexico, will try to bounce back from suffering his first pro loss in his last outing, a 10-round unanimous decision to veteran Cesar Soto on April 27 in Chihuahua. Prior to that, Izquierdo gave prospect Nick Casal his first pro loss last January. Izquierdo replaces Guadalupe Rosales, who pulled out of the bout.
PERTH, Australia – Jelena Jankovic recovered from a right leg injury that forced her to retire from her singles match to combine with Novak Djokovic in mixed doubles and give Serbia victory over France in the Hopman Cup on Wednesday.
Jankovic was trailing 1-0 in the opening set of her singles match against France’s Tatiana Golovin when she pulled her right hamstring. That forced her to retire and give France a 1-0 lead in the match.
