Bairstow Anticipating Test Nod
Awesome Serena thrashes Azarenka
With less than a fortnight to go until the second Grand Slam of the year – the French Open at Roland Garros – Serena Williams showed that she cannot be discounted after beating top seed Victoria Azarenka in the Madrid Open final.
Bulls Defeat was “Terrible” – Elsom
Waratahs captain, Rocky Elsom, reflected on the “terrible” 24-27 defeat by the Bulls at Sydney Football Stadium, on Friday, remarking that he and his teammates would “have to live with the consequences”.
Paris doubts for Roddick
Andy Roddick’s injury woes have once again struck at the worst possible time.
Top Race Options Beckon for Brave French Fifteen
Nicolas Clement, trainer of Qipco 2000 Guineas runner-up French Fifteen, has expressed himself delighted with the fine effort of his three-year-old in failing by only a neck to land the first colts’ classic of the British racing season, and is already looking ahead to bidding for more big prizes in the coming months, writes Elliot Slater.
Impressive Murray Progresses to 3rd Round!
It is fair to say that there isn’t much of an expectation of Andy Murray being successful in the clay season, as we know the Brits best chance of success this summer is at Wimbledon. But the world number four has looked impressive so far in the Monte Carlo Masters.
Roster Expansion
It was only last month that the NFL owners tabled a variety of changes to the League rules and regulations and one of those changes was the expansion of offseason rosters from 80 to 90 players per team. We thought that might take some time for the league to consider but then the NFL made a very surprise announcement much quicker than anyone had expected that the change had been ratified by the NFL.
Minnesota and the #3 Draft Pick
It’s pretty much a done deal that the #1 and #2 picks in the draft are set in stone with Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III sure to disappear to the Colts and Redskins respectively, so the draft dilemmas surely start at #3 where the Minnesota Vikings hold sway.
Draft Sleepers
Tom Brady is usually held up as the archetypal draft “miss” or “sleeper” – someone who has the potential to play far higher than their draft stick or numbers would suggest. Now Brady barely made it into the top 200 in his year, coming in at #199 overall and well, you have to say that to say that things have worked out rather well for the New England signal-caller.
Draft – The Top Two Picks
Well we all know that the way that the top two picks are going this year – Andrew Luck will be off to Indianapolis to join the Colts and Robert Griffin III, or RG3 as he is better known will be taken off the draft board at number two by the Redskins. So just because Luck goes before Griffin does that mean he’ll have a better career – certainly not, here’s a look at several cases from recent years when the secondary pick as outperformed or matched the top pick in the draft.