MADRID — Golf great Seve Ballesteros is awaiting further test results after completing a second round of chemotherapy. The five-time major winner said in a message posted on his Web site that his “spirit and determination are still unshakable” and that he’s itching to get out of the house and “go back to normal life.” [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Thorpe charged with failing to pay taxes
February 13, 2009 – 9:00 am
MIAMI — Champions Tour golfer Jim Thorpe has been charged with failing to pay $1.6 million in federal income taxes. Thorpe, 60, of Heathrow, Fla., faces four counts of failure to file an income tax return and three counts of failure to pay income taxes. If convicted on all charges, he could be sentenced to [...]
LPGA Tour, Golf Channel agree to 10-year deal
February 13, 2009 – 8:54 am
KAHUKU, Hawaii — The LPGA Tour announced a 10-year agreement with Golf Channel on Wednesday, making the network the tour’s exclusive cable home beginning in 2010. The agreement, which LPGA commissioner Carolyn Bivens called “groundbreaking,” establishes the tour as the only stand-alone U.S. women’s professional sports organization to receive a rights fee agreement for domestic [...]
Watney rallies from five back to win Buick
February 13, 2009 – 8:51 am
SAN DIEGO — One of the lessons Nick Watney took from playing for his uncle at Fresno State was that winning is never easy. That’s why he didn’t lose hope Sunday in the Buick Invitational when he was three shots behind with five holes to play. First came a mini-collapse by John Rollins, a combination [...]
Tiger becomes dad for second time
February 10, 2009 – 3:44 am
The uncertainty facing Tiger Woods at the start of the year is almost cleared up. He is practicing at full strength with no restrictions, and playing golf at his home course in Florida. He became a father again when his wife gave birth to a boy on Sunday — Charlie Axel Woods. The only thing [...]
