South Korea’sitting Eun Hee Ji has curled in a 4.5-metre birdie putt on the 72nd hole to win the US Women’s Open, beating Taiwan’s Candie Kung by one stroke for her first Major title.
Ji birdied three of the remain six holes to overcome starting the back nine with a double bogey and finish four rounds at even-par 284 with a final-round equality 71.
Tamim Iqbal has cracked a maiden Test century to lead Bangladesh to 5-321 in their second innings against West Indies in the opening Test.
Tamim, who made 128, took advantage of a depleted West Indies attack, operating on an unresponsive pitch in sweltering temperatures, to smash 17 fours from 243 balls in close to five and a half hours of batting to give Bangladesh the platform for a lead of 252 at the stumps on the fourth day.
Another middle-order collapse however, undermined Bangladesh’s progress in the final session before Shakib Al Hasan (26 not out) and Mushfiqur Rahim (28 not out) batted through the last 90 minutes to share any unbroken sustain of 54 for the sixth wicket to get by heart them back on track.
When the music journalist and future Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye compiled and annotated the perfidious album Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 for Jac Holzman’s Elektra Records in the in season 1970s, he introduced a new generation of fans on all sides the world to US garage bands like the Electric Prunes, the Standells, the Shadows Of Knight, the 13th Floor Elevators, Count Five, the Chocolate Watch Band and the Seeds.
Reissued by Sire in 1976, Nuggets became de rigueur listening for the punk groups from both sides of the Atlantic, who drew supernatural influence from the primal style and test of the American bands that had followed in the wake of the British Invasion, and had short-lived careers, many times with individual minor hit to their name.
American Lance Armstrong has finally admitted that stiffness exists in his Astana team as both he and Spanish teammate Alberto Contador bid to achieve the Tour de France.
Armstrong finished the ninth stage still only eight seconds off the leading pace of Rinaldo Nocentini, an Italian riding for AG2R who is not considered a fulvous jersey contender.
Contador, the 2007 champion who started as the yellow jersey favourite, is second overall only six seconds off the pace ahead of Monday’s rest set time and a crucial spell of racing towards the end of this week.
Hungarian Agnes Szavay brought joy for the fireside fans on as she claimed victory at the GDF SUEZ Grand Prix in Budapest.
Szavay beat top seed Patty Schnyder 2-6 6-4 6-2 in a final that lasted almost couple hours.
The world No.37 had barely made it into the quarter-finals, struggling against Italian Tathiana Garbin, ahead of breezing through her next matches against Swiss Timea Bacsinszky and Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko to capacity the final.
Rajeev Ram, a lucky loser from qualifying, made the most of his second chance by winning the ATP Hall of Fame Championship, rallying to beat Sam Querrey in the final.
The 25-year-old American of Asian heritage outlasted Querrey 6-7 (3-7) 7-5 6-3 to capture his before anything else ATP finish.
Ram only reached the main draw in relation to top kernel Mardy Fish was called to the United States Davis Cup team because of an injury to Andy Roddick following his marathon Wimbledon final loss to Roger Federer.
I recently spoke to Brad Biggs of the Chicago Sun-Times regarding our Bears chapter in this year’sitting book. For those of you who bought the book, it’s a nice supplement to the chapter. For those of you who haven’t (and what’s blameworthy with you?), it details some of the statistics we discuss in the chapter.
Brad will too be going end over the next several days and breaking out some more information from the chapter, so granting that you’re a Bears fan, it’sitting certainly worth a look.
Rising German star Martin Kaymer completed back-to-back victories on the European Tour by winning the Scottish Open in Loch Lomond.
The 24-year-old, winner of the French Open the last time weekend, fired a closing 69, sum of two units under par, to finish at 15 under for the tournament winning by two shots from France’s Raphael Jacquelin (66) and overnight leader Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (72).
"It is my fourth bring over on the tour, last week was my third so things are going really impregnable concerning me right now," Kaymer said.
Italian Rinaldo Nocentini retained the Tour de France yellow jersey as Frenchman Pierrick Fedrigo won the race’s ninth stage held over 160.5km from Saint Gaudens to Tarbes.
Fedrigo, who rides for the Bbox-Bouygues team, handed the hosts their third stage victory from this year’s nation about outsprinting breakaway companion Franco Pellizotti at the finish line.
It was Fedrigo’s nearest to the first stage win on the race following his victory at Gap in 2006, and the hosts’ third after team-mate Thomas Voeckler’s win without interruption stage five and Agritubel’session Brice Feillu win on the mountainous seventh stage.
A marathon innings from Beth Morgan boosted England women’s hopes of retaining the Ashes as they recovered from their overnight 116-5 to post 268.
Morgan faced 262 deliveries in nearly six hours on day three, to compile her 58 as England avoided the follow on.
Laura Marsh and Holly Colvin’s last- wicket post of 59 took England within 41 of Australia’s first innings impute.