This week’s roundup also features Fanny Blankers-Koen, Robin van Persie, and ‘the best coach in the Premier League’1) Things are hotting up at the Crucible, where the World Snooker Championships are in full swing. So here’s Ronnie O’Sullivan talking us through what is widely considered to be the greatest break of all-time, his 92 against Ali Carter in the 2012 final. Now here’s the Rocket in 2014, getting Mark Selbied in one of the classic frames, here are his Crucible 147s, and here’s a full show dedicated to his unfathomable brilliance in Sheffield.2) Isamu Yamamoto is a freestyle skateboarder you need to watch. Take a look at his channel and a short film featuring the teenager.Today I discovered Japanese skateboarder...
Iron Mike has chosen to eschew a taste of normality in returning to fight Roy Jones and with that continues his path alongside Sonny ListonNo one knows boxing history like Mike Tyson. He made plenty of it himself during 20 years as the most feared heavyweight in the world. But there are a lot of things he doesn’t know, and the consequence of his ill‑advised comeback is one of them. Tyson, 54, has not fought since Kevin McBride, a modest Irish heavyweight with much to be modest about, made him quit on his stool after six rounds on the undercard of a show in Washington DC, in June 2005. Like most champions, he quit too late, but what a ride...
With the 2020 calendar cut to the bone and the US Open’s status in doubt, the sport can only cross its fingers for the futureAnyone who doubted that tennis was in a state of suspended animation was surely disabused of the notion after the 2020 calendar was cut to the bone over the past week or so – with more surgery to come.The minor proliferation of small tournaments and brave experiments in reinventing formats of the game on the fringes of the main action have given the illusion of slow recovery after the lockdown that struck in March and was said to be ending in August. We are a long way from normality. Related: Andy Murray can show DeChambeau a...
This week’s roundup also features long-range goals in Turkey, Samoan women’s rugby and Enable’s King George successes1) There is even more England v West Indies at Old Trafford this week, which is a good time to remind the world about Dominic Cork’s hat-trick against the same opposition 25 years ago. Matthew Hoggard achieved the same feat in 2004 in the Caribbean. To be fair, West Indies have enjoyed the odd batting success against England over the years, too.2) Leeds are back in the Premier League and they will be managed by Marcelo Bielsa, an “oddball, a scientist, a professor of the game” according to former Leeds goalkeeper Paul Robinson. So, what can the Premier League expect from him? Here’s the...
The US golfer hits the ball further than ever did but he needs to realise that experience is the ultimate teacherWhen Bryson DeChambeau exploded through his tight‑fitting shirt all over Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio, he went from Bruce Banner to the Incredible Hulk in 10 card-wrecking shots. The 17-stone Californian was crushing the course underfoot when he tumbled to five over, and out of Jack Nicklaus’s Memorial tournament.It took DeChambeau months to pack on 40 pounds of gym-bought muscle and moments for those pumped levers to disconnect from his brain on Friday as his helicopter swing hooked the ball at nearly 200mph into a creek on the 15th. His quintuple-bogey 10 was the worst score of his career. Jack...