DUBAI, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Twice major winner Mark O’Meara believes former world number one Vijay Singh should be suspended by the PGA Tour after the Fijian admitted to using a spray to treat an injury which contains a banned substance. The three-times major winner said he was unaware the deer-antler spray, which he has been using for a couple of months, contained an insulin-like growth factor that is banned by the U.S. circuit. …
Adebayor slams Mbombela
Togo captain Emmanuel Adebayor slammed CAF and South Africa's LOC about the terrible playing surface at the Mbombela Stadium. India ICC Womens WCup
India's Poonam Ganesh Raut plays a shot against West Indies during the opening cricket match of the ICC Women's World Cup in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Twelvetrees given England debut against Scotland
BAGSHOT, England (Reuters) – Billy Twelvetrees will make his debut when England play Scotland in their opening Six Nations game at Twickenham on Saturday after coach Stuart Lancaster rewarded him for a flying first half of the season for Gloucester. The 24-year-old centre has only just been promoted to the senior squad but goes straight into the starting team in place of Manu Tuilagi, who has an ankle injury. Twelvetrees, who moved from Leicester last year in a bid to improve his England prospects, will start at inside centre, with tough-tackling Brad Barritt switching to 13. …
UPDATE 1-Rugby-Twelvetrees given England debut against Scotland
* Gloucester centre replaces Tuilgai for Calcutta Cup match * Marler in at prop as England seek to extend 30-year unbeaten home run (Adds details and quotes) BAGSHOT, England, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Billy Twelvetrees will make his debut when England play Scotland in their opening Six Nations game at Twickenham on Saturday after coach Stuart Lancaster rewarded him for a flying first half of the season for Gloucester. The 24-year-old centre has only just been promoted to the senior squad but goes straight into the starting team in place of Manu Tuilagi, who has an ankle injury. …
Golf-Sterne leaves Westwood and O'Meara trailing in his wake
DUBAI, Jan 31 (Reuters) – South Africa’s Richard Sterne fired a scintillating 10-under-par 62 in the Dubai Desert Classic first round on Thursday to overshadow a fine start to the season by world number eight Lee Westwood. World number 165 Sterne’s 10-birdie round in scoring-friendly conditions was nearly matched by Scot Stephen Gallacher (63) while Race to Dubai money list leader Scott Jamieson and Tommy Fleetwood were two shots further back. …
Motor racing-Ferrari F1 team secure first Chinese sponsor
Jan 31 (Reuters) – The Ferrari Formula One team announced their first Chinese sponsor on Thursday, a maker of components for heavy industrial vehicles a world away from the glamour of the Italian company’s supercars. Ferrari said in a statement that the deal with Weichai Power would run to the end of the 2016 season. China is a major market for Ferrari, who have had a presence there for more than 20 years. The team were overall runners-up in Formula One last season and are the only ones to have competed in every championship since 1950. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Ed Osmond)
Factbox - South Africa captain Graeme Smith
(Reuters) – Factbox on Graeme Smith who will captain his 100th cricket test when South Africa take on Pakistan at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Friday: * Born in Johannesburg on February 1, 1981 EARLY CAREER * Promising schoolboy cricketer at King Edward School in Johannesburg, picked for South Africa’s under-19 team. * Left-handed opener, who played his initial first-class cricket for Gauteng but soon moved to Cape Town to play for Western Province. TEST ACHIEVEMENTS *Test debut against Australia in 2002 at Newlands, one month after his 21st birthday. …
FACTBOX-Cricket-South Africa captain Graeme Smith
Jan 31 (Reuters) – Factbox on Graeme Smith who will captain his 100th cricket test when South Africa take on Pakistan at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Friday: * Born in Johannesburg on Feb. 1, 1981 EARLY CAREER * Promising schoolboy cricketer at King Edward School in Johannesburg, picked for South Africa’s under-19 team. * Left-handed opener, who played his initial first-class cricket for Gauteng but soon moved to Cape Town to play for Western Province. TEST ACHIEVEMENTS *Test debut against Australia in 2002 at Newlands, one month after his 21st birthday. …
O'Meara says Singh should be punished for doping
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Mark O’Meara says Vijay Singh should be suspended “for a couple of months” by the PGA Tour after he admitted he used a deer-antler spray that contains a banned substance.
Thirush Kamini
Indian cricketer Thirush Kamini (L) plays a shot as West Indian cricketer Merissa Aguelleria looks on during the inugural match of the ICC Women's World Cup 2013 between India and West Indies at the Cricket Club of India's Brabourne stadium in Mumbai on January 31, 2013. Teams from Australia, England, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies join hosts India for the global event which is being played from 31 January to 17 February. The women's World Cup opened in Mumbai with the cricketers hoping to put aside memories of the unsavoury build-up and gain their due recognition in a country where the men's game reigns supreme. AFP PHOTO/ Indranil MUKHERJEE 
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