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Crunch Time! Keep track of your workout time. This time keeping marvel has accurate quartz movement that requires one AA battery. It's an exact replic......
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Tuesday, June 20 |
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ballerjayps21's Ratings Comfort 10/10
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Thursday, June 15 |
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Mickelson walking tall in Tiger's world
Though there is always the chance that a Michael Campbell could come out of the pack, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson stand apart going into this week's US Open at Winged Foot. Woods, at 30, already has 10 majors under his belt. Mickelson, 36 tomorrow, has just the three but, having won last year's PGA Championship along with the 2006 Masters, he is the player more obviously in form.
Tiger's world: But Phil Mickelson is the form player going ino the Open
The big question is how Woods' nine-week lay off, taken around his father's death, is going to affect him. Can he possibly be operating on all cylinders when his last competitive round was on the Sunday of the Masters?
Woods himself says he is excited with the way he is playing and that he is here to win. Campbell, his Maori beliefs to the fore, is among those who believe that he could be all the more dangerous because of what has happened. "Tiger's going to be thinking that his dad is still with him... It's going to empower him," suggested the defending champion.
Another former US Open champion, 1973 winner Johnny Miller, has an interesting take on the Woods v Mickelson rivalry. "If," he suggested, "Phil were playing in a different group from Tiger on Saturday and Sunday, he'd be better than Tiger. But face to face, I think Tiger is still better than Phil." To make his point further, Miller added eloquently: "There are guys who can waltz round Tiger but they can't waltz with him."
Mickelson, who has spent 10 days practising at Winged Foot, has said nothing to contradict the Miller view. In truth, there were many who liked Mickelson rather more as he conceded: "This is Tiger's world, I just live in it."
Out of an encouragingly sizeable European contingent, David Howell and Luke Donald would seem to offer the best chance of a first British US Open victory since Tony Jacklin won at Hazeltine in 1970.
Howell, whose ranking has now risen to ninth in the world, just ahead of Donald (11th), laughs at the memory of his first US Open, at nearby Bethpage Black in 2002. He was coming back from a broken arm and knew it was too soon to be testing the limb. However, on the grounds that it might be his only chance to play in a US Open, he decided to give it a go - and duly missed the cut.
At that stage, Howell was under the impression that the top players were better than they really were. "I would look at someone like Lee Janzen, who had won two US Opens, and my jaw would drop," he recalls. "It took me years to appreciate that even if someone has won a couple of these things, it doesn't mean he is going to play like a major champion every day of the week."
Looking back at his own golf game in 2002, Howell will tell you that he was "an OK player" but one who was light years removed from being able to cope with a US Open venue.
Today, like Donald, he has all the right credentials to compete. Aside from a share of 11th place in last year's Masters, he defeated Woods down the stretch in the 2006 HSBC Champions Tournament in Shanghai last November, and more recently he won the BMW Championship at Wentworth. "I look around this week and there's no one here I haven't beaten before," he notes.
This morning Howell will be watching the golf on television prior to a starting time which ruins any possibility of him getting stuck into England's World Cup game. The idea, here, is to get a feel for the course. "If 30 or 40 people are two or three under par, you know that it's going be very playable and you set your sights accordingly," he said.
Meanwhile, there was a question which had to be asked of Niclas Fasth yesterday. Did he have any new clubs in his bag? "I'm not going to tell you," laughed the Swede, who knew at once that his guilty secret was out - namely that he and Denmark's Thomas Bjorn are both doing what you would not believe of two full-blooded males in carrying a Callaway nine-wood.
Though Bjorn was beginning to have second thoughts, a nine-wood is apparently the perfect answer to escaping the first cut of the Winged Foot rough.
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Wednesday, June 14 |
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Sunday noise bylaw about to make a racket
Livia Prince says it's bad enough that she can't sleep in her bedroom during the week because of construction noise from the three monster homes being built across the street.
But she doesn't think she should also have to put up with the racket on weekends, too.
Last Sunday, Prince, 77, the owner of a modest one-and-a-half-storey home near Avenue Rd. and Lawrence Ave. W., said she had to endure about three hours of hammering in the afternoon. Someone on her street called the police. Problem solved for that day.
But Prince says enough is enough.
After putting up with construction noise on her street since 2000 from "infill work" at six other monster homes — developers tearing down bungalows and putting up multi-storey homes in their place — she says the least the city could do is implement a ban for Sundays and statutory holidays.
"We're entitled to the peaceful enjoyment of our property, but that's what we're being robbed of without any compensation," Prince said.
Before amalgamation, all municipalities save for the old city of Toronto had noise bans on Sundays and holidays.
Since amalgamation in 1998, Toronto has once considered a city-wide ban on construction noise for Sundays and statutory holidays. After hearing from the construction industry and hobbyists who work on their own homes, the city backed off.
The city's bylaw permits construction noise from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekends.
Now, the city's planning and transportation committee has put forward a plan calling for Sundays and holidays to be noise free, all day — but just in low-rise residential neighbourhoods.
But Councillor Howard Moscoe (Ward 15, Eglinton-Lawrence) doesn't like the sound of that. He says that's "discriminatory" toward people who live in highrise apartments and condos. He argues there should be a Sunday and holiday noise ban everywhere or no ban at all.
"More than half the people in the city live in highrise buildings. People who have condos deserve as much right to noise protection as people wealthy enough to own a single-family home."
The proposal for the ban in low-rise locales was on the agenda for last month's city council meeting, but Moscoe had it held up.
It's on the agenda again for today's council meeting, but Moscoe said he hopes to get it deferred again. He wants his proposal for an all-inclusive ban dealt with at the same time.
Councillor Karen Stintz, vice-chair of the planning committee, said a ban covering only low-rise residential makes sense. "If you can, imagine streets where they've had seven years of construction activity because of the demolition of homes and reconstruction of new homes and the pressures that puts on a street when the lot's only 25 feet (7.5 metres) wide," said Stintz (Ward 16, Eglinton-Lawrence).
The issue comes down to this: If you ban construction noise on Sundays and holidays in residential areas, you get a little resistance. Try doing it city-wide and there's lots of resistance.
That's because crews doing work on major roads, office buildings, hospitals and shopping malls use Sundays to do "tear downs" or dismantling of their equipment at the work sites.
"The difficulty is, (by including Moscoe's plan) we would actually be limiting construction activity in the downtown core, and areas where the best time to build is actually on the weekend and statutory holidays," Stintz said.
"This should have been a law ages ago," Livia Prince said. "No work on the day of the Lord, whichever god you worship. But when you worship the god of money, this is what happens." |
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Kaka the difference as records fall
THE DAY REPLAYED: The winning run now stands at eight victories. It began all the way back in Ulsan 1,471 days ago with a 2-1 success over Turkey and tonight in Berlin it reached a special milestone with a 1-0 defeat of Croatia. No team in the history of the FIFA World Cup™ has put together such a long, victorious streak as Brazil.
It was not the stuff from which legends have been constructed but it was enough and the winning goal from Kaka a minute before the break was a peach. And it was one more goal than France managed. As the 2002 champions carry on their winning ways, so the 1998 winners cannot shake off a sequence of disappointing results. A 0-0 draw with Switzerland - a first ever FIFA World Cup clean sheet for the Swiss - was not the start they were hoping for to banish the blues from four years ago. In the same Group G, Korea Republic turned round a first-half deficit to beat Togo 2-1.
Brazil will be hoping that this year's tournament starts and ends for them in Germany's capital. If they return to Berlin in 26 days' time, the winning run might have grown a good deal more, Ronaldo could have become the greatest goalscorer in FIFA World Cup history and Cafu the player with more winning appearances in FIFA World Cup matches than any other. But we are getting ahead of ourselves.
There were too many Croatian chances in the second half for this to be a concern-free zone for coach Carlos Alberto Parreira and his team. Three times those wonderfully vivid tablecloth shirts were in position to score; three times they could do no more than aim the ball down Dida's throat.
Player of the Day
Kaka: the winning goal and some sublime touches
At least the goal that carried the day lived up to Brazilian traditions as Kaka found space on the edge of the penalty area to shrug off the threat from three hovering defenders before caressing the ball high into the net. He was the 'Fab Four' member who most lived up to his reputation though there were some promising moments conjured by Ronaldinho.
Moment of the Day
The Croatian fans never lose faith.
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It was a heart-warming sight, the way the Croatian fans stuck by their team, concocting a red-and-white tidal wave of movement and launching a wall of reverberating noise around the magnificent FIFA World Cup Stadium Berlin.
Remember that day in Paris when France struck three goals past Brazil in the 2002 FIFA World Cup Final? Since then they have played four games in the competition and not won a single one. What's more they have failed to score a single goal. For a nation that can boast Thierry Henry, David Trezeguet, Louis Saha, Sylvain Wiltord plus Zinedine Zidane - who has been known to strike a spectacular goal or two - that's an amazing statistic.
Maybe their lack of sparkle in a 0-0 draw was down to feelings of familiarity. They had met Switzerland home and away in the qualifying campaign and both those games had ended as ties: 1-1 in Berne, 0-0 in Paris. Neither team will await their next encounter with any great excitement.
This stage is Zidane's farewell to a game he has graced with the utmost skill and finesse. Of those lining up to assume the great man’s mantle, Franck Ribery has pressed his claims more than most over the past season. This was his first start for the national team and for the first 15 or 20 minutes he buzzed dangerously before the heat of mid-afternoon applied a brake to his endeavours.
The first game of the day had seen Togo attempt to secure the first points for Africa in this tournament. But surely Togo could not succeed against Korea Republic, surprise semi-finalists four years ago, where the likes of fellow debutants Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana had so narrowly failed? After all their preparations had been particularly chaotic with coach Otto Pfister resigning just days before their first game – before agreeing to return.
Goal of the Day
Mohamed Kader: 1-0 Togo
Football never obeys a logical script, however, and Togo took the lead with a goal of some quality. Mohamed Kader brought the ball down skilfully and then quickly got away his shot which had just the right angle to beat the goalkeeper. It was a fine strike and he almost repeated it on two other occasions.
By the time of his third, the Koreans had turned the game on its head, equalising within a minute of Togo's Jean-Paul Abalo receiving a red card, through Lee Chun-Soo's superb free-kick. They then celebrated a winner from Ahn Jung-Hwan that ensured a first ever FIFA World Cup victory outside of Asia. |
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Even short ones are tricky at U.S. Open
MAMARONECK, N.Y. - The par-4 sixth hole is downhill, only 321 yards, practically begging one of these big-hitting pros to take out a driver and whack it onto the green.
One catch: This is the U.S. Open. Anyone who misses is going to be in deep trouble ... and even deeper rough.
"I've found over time that I have a lot better chance of making birdie from 100 yards out than from chipping out of that rough around the green," defending champion Michael Campbell said Monday after his practice round. "You get in there and you don't have any idea what's going to happen."
Campbell said he spent enough time in the rough - calculated by some players as ranging from 5 to 10 inches in height - to get a good feel for how ugly it could get. His worst lie? "I think I advanced the ball about 30 yards," he said.
He could laugh about it after the practice round. Come Thursday, it won't be so funny.
That's why the USGA calls its signature tournament - quite proudly - "the most rigorous examination of golfers." This year, the USGA powers have trotted out the phrase "graduated rough," for the grass that grows higher the farther away it is from the fairway. The idea: Don't make the penalty for missing the fairway by 2 yards the same as for missing it by 20.
While Campbell made his way in and out of Winged Foot pretty much unnoticed, Monday also was the day Tiger Woods returned to the course. Woods made his first appearance at a golf tournament since the final round of the Masters. The layoff came because of the illness and death of his father, Earl Woods.
Tiger showed up about a half-hour late for his 1:14 p.m. tee time, but as soon as he came through the gates, fans turned around and ran to the ropes, hoping for autographs. He hurried past them, to the first tee, where he played nine holes and didn't show any signs of rust.
"He was playing as you would expect," said Jeff Sluman, who joined him for the practice round. "There's no rust in his game. If he drives it straight, he'll win the golf tournament. And if doesn't, he'll have a hell of a chance to win. But that's nothing that hasn't already been said."
The return of Woods means the resumption of the Woods-Phil Mickelson battles. They are winners of four of the last five majors. Mickelson has won the last two and, for the first time in recent memory, he has supplanted - or come very close to supplanting - Woods as the favorite at a major. One betting site listed Woods as an 11-to-2 favorite, followed very closely by Mickelson at 6-to-1.
Of course, the brutal conditions that often accompany the U.S. Open can bring forth surprises, too. Last year, Campbell fit precisely in that category, rising from four shots off the lead after three rounds to beat Woods by two for the championship.
Struggling on the European Tour so far this season, Campbell said he feels good nonetheless.
"It's the same," Campbell said when asked what he felt his chances were compared to 2005. "Last year, I thought I was hitting the ball pretty well and giving myself chances. I feel the same this year."
It figures that those who can keep the ball in the middle of the tight fairways will have the best chance. There will be no rewards for huge hitters who can't hit it straight. The sixth hole is a great example.
Early in the practice rounds, a couple players - Olin Browne and Angel Cabrera - took driver and swung away. But with the pin tucked behind a bunker on the upper right, and with the left side of the green contoured for the ball to roll off, only a precisely hit driver - one that would fly 300 yards, then stop on a dime - would yield a chance at eagle.
"There's no real reward in going for it," Campbell said.
Instead, it would be much safer to hit iron into a fairway that measures a meager 20 paces across and avoid rough that will be grown longer than on most holes to put a higher price on risk-taking.
"Certainly, the course is very challenging," said Andy Svoboda, a 26-year-old qualifier who has won four club championships at Winged Foot and knows the A.W. Tillinghast layout better than anyone playing this week.
This Tillinghast design features severely sloping greens that run from back to front with little margin for error.
At the 1974 Open, dubbed "The Massacre at Winged Foot," Jack Nicklaus lined up his first putt at the back of the green and rolled it completely off the front, a harbinger for a tournament that Hale Irwin won at 7-over par. Fast-forward to Monday's practice, and there was Swede Henrik Stenson delicately landing flop shot after flop shot on the tight back shelf on No. 18, only to watch all the balls roll 30 feet downhill.
Scary? You bet.
"You just really have to be patient out there and hit quality golf shots," said Svoboda, who has a keener sense than anyone for what's in store. "You play one shot at a time and just add them up at the end. That's all you can do."
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