By

Gordon went on to enjoy an outstanding campaign where he helped the club to win a league and league cup double, and was rewarded with the writers’ Player of the Year gong at the end of season awards.

He is also only the sixth Australian to win the Canadian Open, joining Joe Kirkwood (1933), Jim Ferrier (1950, 1951), Kel Nagle (1964), Greg Norman (1984, 1992) and Nathan Green (2009) on the honour board.

Wilkerson, who reported to training camp Wednesday despite being unhappy with his current contract, intends to play out the final season of his deal if an agreement isn’t reached by the start of the regular season, according to sources.

It’s possible this new game in the franchise will only be offered in specific regions such as in Asia.

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has confirmed that his ankle injury will prevent him from defending the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational next week. The injury ruled him out of defending his British Open title two weeks ago at St. Andrews.

Expectations are still low for New Mexico. The Rams will be represented by first-year Head Coach Mike Bobo, junior wide receiver Rashard Higgins and senior safety Trent Matthews.

Cork football manager Brian Cuthbert has fallen on his sword, this morning, after witnessing his side lose to Kerry in a Munster final replay and then get walloped by Kildare in the last round of the qualifiers.

The Clare County Board lodged their appeal against the interpretation of competition rules, while Dublin launched an appeal in favour of a midweek play-off – the All-Ireland quarter-final against Wexford is down for decision this Saturday at Thurles.

England director of cricket Andrew Strauss denied requesting slow strips for the five-Test series, a ploy that has played into Australia’s hands, according to coach Trevor Bayliss.

Australia “A” all-rounder Ashton Agar said his side is excited about taking on India Test skipper Virat Kohli when he turns up for India “A” in the final four-day cricket match starting in Chennai on Wednesday but insisted that there is no specific plan to...

The director of sport of newly-promoted Serie A side Bologna has revealed that he would be interested in bringing Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli back to Italy.

The Ghanaian FA has announced via Twitter that midfielder Sulley Muntari has joined Saudi Arabian side Al Ittihad on a two-year contract.

Last night plans for the 178m long, 76m high slide were approved.

Shaw is now being tipped to shine by Van Gaal following his displays for the squad on their preseason tour of the United States, with the Dutchman confident of his impact.

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has been explaining his reasons for allowing Stevan Jovetic to leave for Inter, insisting the striker “had to go”. There were reports earlier on in the summer stating that Liverpool might be interested in signing the...