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Though they are as close as a player-caddie duo can be, Dustin Johnson and Bobby Brown are no longer working together. Johnson’s agent confirmed the split to GolfChannel.com’s Rex Hoggard. Johnson is next scheduled to play in South Korea next week, and Hoggard says Johnson will have a friend loop for him in that event. After that trip, Johnson will look for a replacement in earnest. Obviously, something wasn’t right for the pair, whose split was termed amicable by Johnson’s agent, Rocky Hambric. But Brown made headlines earlier this year when he had a verbal confrontation with Jim Gray at [...]

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By Dan RoanBBC Sports News Correspondent Ecclestone is also co-owner of Queens Park Rangers Football Club German state prosecutors have confirmed to BBC Sport that they have questioned Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone as part of a probe into an alleged multi-million pound bribery scandal. The authorities are trying to establish who paid around $ 50m to Gerhard Gribkowsky, a former banker who oversaw F1-s sale to private equity firm CVC in 2006. A senior source at the State Prosecution Office in Munich told the BBC that Ecclestone had been interviewed by Public Prosecutor Hildegard Baumler-Hosl earlier this month. “He [...]

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WIMBLEDON, England —The singles champions at Wimbledon this year will each receive .8 million. The All England Club chief executive Ian Ritchie announced Tuesday the total prize fund for the 125th championships will increase to .8 million. “Leading international sports events, such as Wimbledon, are all about the quality of the players on show,” All England Club chairman Philip Brook said. “It is important that we offer prize money which suitably rewards the players both for the box office appeal they bring to the event and for their supreme performances on court.” Last year, prize money for the singles champions [...]

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TALLADEGA, Ala. —Jimmie Johnson didn’t mind a little tag teaming. Of course, he won the race. Matt Kenseth thought it was a terrible idea. Then again, he was knocked out by a crash. NASCAR drivers have always had a love-hate relationship with restrictor-plate racing, essentially based on how they finish. It’s the same for the fans, who moan and groan about how boring it is—until there’s another nail-biter of an ending like the one at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday. Johnson, with a big push from teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr., edged out Clint Bowyer by two-thousandths of a second to tie [...]

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It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Amir “King” Khan is one of the world’s elite boxers. He is, after all, extremely fast, has terrific footwork, hits hard and has an extensive amateur pedigree that culminated with a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. He is, in a word, a thoroughbred. British boxer Amir Khan didn’t let a fluke loss derail his train to stardom. But for some odd reason, Khan is most closely associated with a Sept. 6, 2008, fight in London when he was knocked out in 54 seconds by little known Breidis Prescott. That [...]

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In the wake of the March 11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, former Shooto heavyweight champion and Pride and UFC veteran Enson Inoue has been on a one-man charity mission, traveling to northeast Japan to directly help those in need. For his next visit to the Tohoku region, MMA Fighting joined Inoue to document the journey and bring new light to the ongoing crisis in Japan. On days six and seven, we meet an MMA fighter who lost everything and returned to Miyako where evacuees start to open up and reveal their harrowing stories. Visiting the disaster and evacuation areas is [...]

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BARCELONA, April 19 – Barcelona captain Carles Puyol did not train on Tuesday but tests confirmed he is fit to face Real Madrid in Wednesday’s King’s Cup final in Valencia (1930 GMT), the La Liga leaders said. The Spain central defender had not played since Jan. 22 before Saturday’s 1-1 La Liga draw at Real, when he was substituted as a precaution after feeling a twinge in a thigh muscle. “In the end, it was confirmed that the (Barca) captain will be available for (coach) Josep Guardiola,” the club said on their website (www.fcbarcelona.cat). Wednesday’s Cup final, the first time [...]

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Asian professional golf is thriving. It’s where the game is growing – the sport’s penultimate frontier – and the region driving the growth in the global economy. Perhaps a signal of that expansion is the co-existence of two professional golf tours: the established Asian Tour and upstart OneAsia Tour, the brainchild of former Australasian Golf chief Ben Sellenger. The two tours have been engaged in a verbal spat over a host of logistical issues and angered some players over qualification criteria for their events. Speaking with the AP, European Tour Chief Executive George O’Grady appears to have sided with the [...]

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