IT says everything about Rory McIlroy’s fortunes this week that the only encouragement he can salvage from this Open is the fact that he was one under par for the final ten holes of his “disappointing” two rounds. More...
Henrik Stenson believes rolling with the punches is the key to his bid to become the first male Swedish winner of a major title. More...
HE wasn’t the first and certainly won’t be the last. It was understandable, though, that Grant Forrest saw his dream debut in the Open Championship end in disappointment after such a promising start. More...
Former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel said the British Open had become a “lottery” after he twice belted the ball 400 yards down Muirfield’s oven-baked fairways. More...
HE KNOWS time is ticking, even if he doesn’t necessarily like being reminded of it. More...
Seven months after breaking his leg skiing in the Sierra Nevada mountains near his home in Malaga, Miguel Angel Jimenez’s chances of becoming the oldest ever major winner are intact. More...
Tito Vilanova is stepping down as Barcelona’s coach following a recurrence of throat cancer, just a month before Lionel Messi and his team-mates begin the defence of their Spanish league title. More...
WITH the Rowan Cup already secured, and a Scottish Cup quarter-final at Carlton tomorrow, second placed Drumpellier will today bid to maintain their title push at the expense of an Ayr side who need the points to pull away from the foot of the table. More...
Experienced bowler Benny McGill is back in the Arbroath line-up as the leaders return to CSL Eastern Premier Division action this afternoon with a match against in-form Watsonians. More...
Graeme Swann put England in control as 16 wickets fell at Lord’s on another crazy day in the 2013 Ashes. More...
GOALKEEPER Ben Williams is adamant that it would be premature to write off Hibernian’s European dreams just yet, insisting: “It’s far from over.” More...
ORGANISERS of the Open Championship at Muirfield last night defended poor attendance figures at the competition amid complaints that high ticket prices had driven away fans. More...
OVER the course he had sworn to woo and wed, and still very much in love with her despite the rape of Saturday, when Isao Aoki matched the lowest round in the long history of the championship, Tom Watson at Muirfield yesterday won the Open for the third time in five years. More...
STEVEN Mouyokolo is determined to seize the chance to revive his career at Celtic after discovering a new sense of perspective on both life and football during almost a year and a half on the sidelines. More...
NOT since 2001, when Colin Montgomerie led by one at Royal Lytham, has the Saltire occupied such a lofty position at halfway in the Open Championship. More...
IT WOULD be a radical step – and one that would finish off some of the Honourable Company once and for all ­– but you could have put a soundtrack to Tiger Woods’ round yesterday, you could have had him striding down the 18th on his way to a birdie at the end of a huge struggle to stay relevant in...
ONCE the dust had settled – and there’s plenty of it being kicked up in these bone-dry conditions on the East Lothian coast – we were left with a fascinating leaderboard. More...
ON A day when the bone-dry rough again crackled underfoot, the players continued to battle with testing pin positions at the 142nd Open championship at Muirfield. More...
Householders in Aberdeen will have to use the five-figure area dialling code from their landlines – even when making a local call – under new proposals put forward by Ofcom. More...
JIM Younie was 23 years old when he stepped into the waters lapping the shores of Normandy on the morning of 7 June 1944. Whichever bodies were not lying strewn across the beach were floating in the water, as hell raged all around. More...
Aberdeen’s failure to make the shortlist for UK City of Culture 2017 was down to a lack of Scottish Government funding, a senior councillor has claimed. More...
Celtic will almost certainly face Swedish side Elfsborg in the third qualifying round of the Champions League following yesterday’s draw in Nyon. More...
A BUS spotter who spent 50 years travelling over 100,000 miles to take pictures of his favourite vehicles has published a book detailing a lifelong obsession. More...
THE UK’S first Muslim MP, Mohammad Sarwar, is to surrender his British nationality to take up a senior post with the Pakistani government, it emerged on Friday. More...
WITH thousands of shows across hundreds of venues, the Edinburgh Festival may be the world’s biggest arts gathering, but it can also be a challenge to find what you’re looking for. More...
SPARTANS striker Robbie Ross couldn’t have fared much better after making his competitive debut for Spartans in their 4-2 victory in the Ramsdens Cup qualifying first-round tie against Threave Rovers last Saturday. More...
Ian Bell’s third hundred in successive Ashes Tests underpinned England’s partial recovery from their false start on an eventful first day at Lord’s. More...
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has insisted striker Luis Suarez will remain at Anfield “unless something drastic happens” – while also stressing no player is bigger than the club. More...
MANCHESTER United legend Denis Irwin has backed new manager David Moyes’ stance on Wayne Rooney. More...
Inverness Caledonian Thistle will be able to field an entire team of new signings after completing the capture of English defender Carl Tremarco. More...
ABERDEEN suffered a pre-season injury blow when Chris Clark suffered a knee injury in their friendly win against the Irish minnows Malahide United. More...
THE confirmation of James McFadden’s return to Motherwell was temporarily delayed yesterday but the 30-year-old has agreed terms on a one-year deal which will be signed before he plays against League Two side Morecambe tomorrow. More...
IT WAS a day of mixed fortunes for Scotland’s two top-ranked players. While Martin Laird celebrated becoming No 1 again with a pleasing one-under-par 70, Paul Lawrie had a shocker in the event so special to his heart. More...
GRANT Forrest gained an admirer as the local hero overcame a “daunting experience” to outscore a posse of major winners with a two-over-par 73 on his Open Championship debut. More...
They were counted out and they were counted back in again nearly five hot, sweaty hours later, which, given their venerability, was perhaps the best that they could have hoped for. More...
AMERICAN Todd Hamilton, shock winner of the 2004 Open, was briefly the clubhouse leader of this year’s tournament after shooting a first-round two-under-par 69 yesterday. More...
THEY were the recognised big hitters but this is a course that requires more than power to subdue it. More...
FORMER Masters champion Charl Schwartzel’s mixed day ended on high as he holed a bunker shot at the 18th. More...
FORMER champion Louis Oosthuizen withdrew from the Open halfway through his opening round yesterday with a recurrence of a neck-related injury. More...
SIR Nick Faldo has insisted that comments he made about Rory McIlroy earlier in the week were designed to be helpful to the 24 year-old Northern Irishman, who endured a painful opening round at the Open yesterday. More...
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