Jack Nicklaus, the “Golden Bear,” isn’t at the U.S. Senior Open, so a black bear will have to do. The inquisitive beast ambled out of the wilderness and onto the East Course at the Broadmoor on Friday, crossing the 13th fairway between ESPN on-course color analyst Dottie Pepper and golfer Bernard Langer and his caddie, Terry Holt, before trying to mingle with spectators outside the ropes.
Grappling wizard and current UFC middleweight contender Dean Lister has been forced to withdraw from his scheduled bout against Thales Leites at UFC Fight Night 15 on September 17th after suffering a knee injury during a recent training session.
Lister’s management team confirmed the injury with MMA Weekly earlier this afternoon. Lister is only expected to be out of action for a couple of weeks and his bout against Leites is said to be currently in talks to be moved to a yet-to-be-announced UFC event in Portland, Oregon in November. According to Lister’s management team, matchmaker Joe Silva was very understanding of Lister’s injury and will attempt to get him a future fight as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, Leites tells Tatame.com that Lister’s withdrawal is now the second straight opponent that pulled out of a fight against him at the same event. Leites stated that newcomer Goran Reljic, who surprisingly stopped Wilson Gouveia at UFC 84 in May, also became injured in recent weeks as well.
“Now I don’t know who will I fight with”, Leites said in the article. “I was thinking and all the other guys from my division are with opponents. They said I’ll fight, but I don’t know against who.”
Courtesy of our friends at BehindTheBadge.com
The official CONCACAF website has been posting profiles of this year’s Champions League participants since last week. The profiles are decent and it looks like they’re put some time in writing them. One critique is that there’s not a hyperlink to the club’s official website, even though the website URL is highlighted in blue.
Yankees outfielder Xavier Nady was out of the starting lineup Thursday night against the Los Angeles Angels because of inflammation in his right quadriceps. Nady, acquired from the Pittsburgh Pirates last weekend, felt the injury after his first at-bat Wednesday night. He said he was able to run with it, but the team wanted to play it safe.
Groupings for the first two
rounds of next week’s PGA Championship being played at Oakland
Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan from Aug. 7-10
(listed times are all local, for GMT add four hours: U.S.
unless stated)
Thursday, August 7, first hole - Friday, August 8, 10th hole
0730 - 1240: Bradley Dean, Briny Baird, Alastair Forsyth
(Britain)
0740 - 1250: Bart Bryant, Jeff Martin, Robert Karlsson
(Sweden)
0750 - 1300: Jeev Milkha Singh (India), D.J. Trahan, Tim Clark
(South Africa)
0800 - 1310: Pat Perez, Charl Schwartzel (South Africa),
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational winner
0810 - 1320: Ryuji Imada (Japan), Carl Pettersson (Sweden),
Corey Pavin
0820 - 1330: Simon Dyson (Britain), Ken Duke, Robert Allenby
(Australia)
0830 - 1340: Steve Stricker, Jeff Quinney, Peter Lonard
(Australia)
0840 - 1350: Ryan Moore, Graeme McDowell (Britain), Billy
Mayfair
0850 - 1400: Todd Hamilton, Richard Green (Australia), Niclas
Fasth (Sweden)
0900 - 1410: Hunter Mahan, Richard S. Johnson (Sweden), Jerry
Kelly
0910 - 1420: Sean O’Hair, Scott Hebert, Rod Pampling
(Australia)
0920 - 1430: Steve Lowery, Brad Martin, Peter Hedblom
(Sweden)
0930 - 1440: Oliver Wilson (Britain), Curt Sanders, Vaughn
Taylor
Thursday, August 7, 10th hole-Friday, August 8, first hole
0735 - 1245: John Mallinger, Frank Esposito junior, Mark Brown
(New Zealand)
0745 - 1255: Hiroyuki Fujita (Japan), Don Yrene, Paul Goydos
0755 - 1305: Steve Marino, Ross Fisher (Britain), Daniel
Chopra (Sweden)
0805 - 1315: Pablo Larrazabal (Spain), Boo Weekley, Paul Casey
(Britain)
0815 - 1325: Jim Furyk, Colin Montgomerie (Britain), Aaron
Baddeley (Australia)
0825 - 1335: Sergio Garcia (Spain), Anthony Kim, Camilo
Villegas (Colombia)
0835 - 1345: Lee Westwood (Britain), Geoff Ogilvy (Australia),
Zach Johnson
0845 - 1355: Davis Love III, Phil Mickelson, Rich Beem
0855 - 1405: K.J. Choi (South Korea), Justin Leonard, Chez
Reavie
0905 - 1415: Stewart Cink, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain), Nick
O’Hern (Australia)
0915 - 1425: Prayad Marksaeng (Thailand), Sonny Skinner, Peter
Hanson (Sweden)
0925 - 1435: Steve Flesch, Tim Weinhart, Hennie Otto (South
Africa)
0935 - 1445: Greg Kraft, Rick Leibovich, Reno-Tahoe Open
winner
Thursday, August 7, first hole - Friday, August 8, 10th hole
1245 - 0735: Nicholas Thompson, David Long, J.J. Henry
1255 - 0745: Ryan Benzel, Brian Gay, Mathew Goggin
(Australia)
1305 - 0755: Darren Clarke (Britain), Tom Lehman, Shingo
Katayama (Japan)
1315 - 0805: Trevor Immelman (South Africa), Angel Cabrera
(Argentina), Padraig Harrington (Ireland)
1325 - 0815: Bubba Watson, Rocco Mediate, Nick Dougherty
(Britain)
1335 - 0825: David Toms, Vijay Singh (Fiji), John Daly
1345 - 0835: Henrik Stenson (Sweden), Brandt Snedeker, Woody
Austin
1355 - 0845: Adam Scott (Australia), Ernie Els (South Africa),
Fred Couples
1405 - 0855: Kenny Perry, Retief Goosen (South Africa), Justin
Rose (Britain)
1415 - 0905: Rory Sabbatini (South Africa), Ian Poulter
(Britain), Chad Campbell
1425 - 0915: Mike Weir (Canada), Alex Cejka (Germany), Andres
Romero (Argentina)
1435 - 0925: Sam Arnold, Jyoti Randhawa (India), Dean Wilson
1445 - 0935: Ben Crane, Johnson Wagner, Vince Jewell
Thursday, August 7, 10th hole-Friday, August 8, first hole
1240 - 0730: Charlie Wi, Eric Dugas, Louis Oosthuizern (South
Africa)
1250 - 0740: Kevin Sutherland, Tim Thelen, Steve Webster
(Britain)
1300 - 0750: Martin Kaymer (Germany), Jim Estes, Heath Slocum
1310 - 0800: Tommy Armour III, Brendan Jones (Australia),
Fredrik Jacobson (Sweden)
1320 - 0810: Ben Curtis, Scott Verplank, Toru Taniguchi
(Japan)
1330 - 0820: Paul Azinger, Jay Haas, Michael Campbell (New
Zealand)
1340 - 0830: Stuart Appleby (Australia), Charles Howell III,
Soren Kjeldsen (Denmark)
1350 - 0840: Steve Elkington (Australia), Mark Brooks, Bob
Tway
1400 - 0850: Stephen Ames (Canada), Mark Calcavecchia, Anders
Hansen (Denmark)
1410 - 0900: Soren Hansen (Denmark), J.B. Holmes. Chris
DiMarco
1420 - 0910: John Merrick, Kyle Flinton, John Senden
(Australia)
1430 - 0920: Eric Manning, George McNeill, James Kingston
(South Africa)
1440 - 0930: Alan Morin, Scott Strange (Australia), Jonathan
Byrd
(Compiled by Mark Lamport-Stokes; Editing by John O’Brien)
Fifteen minor league players and two managers were suspended and fined Friday for their part in a 10-minute, bench-clearing brawl that sent one fan to the hospital. The rest of the players on both rosters also were fined for leaving their positions or the dugout, Midwest League President George Spelius said.
As any competitive athlete would likely be, Briana Scurry wasn’t happy about being left off the Olympic roster. She said as much to certain media.
Another coach might have taken offense to being second-guessed, might have avoided working with Scurry or deemed her presence a negative distraction to the players who were picked over her.
Remember way back on the 4th of July when we at MLSR told you that Juan Toja might be headed to Bucharest?
According to the official blog of FC Dallas, its a done deal.
Here’s the blog entry:
"Late this afternoon, we here at the FCD Blog were able to witness Juan Toja signing off on the final document that sealed his transfer from FC Dallas to Romanian club Steaua Bucuresti.
The transfer window has swung open, accompanied by movement both between MLS and parts foreign and within the league itself. DC has busied itself by offloading Sudamericanos and importing Earthquakes. The latest to land on the VDub bulls-eye is Ivan Guerrero, the left-sided midfielder and defender who was one of Chicago’s key players prior to Osorio’s arrival in Fire-land and his subsequent