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In one of the most chaotic days in the lead-up to a major championship, with thunderstorms disrupting practice sessions, interviews canceled and then resumed, Tiger Woods said he may not have time to become Ryder Cup captain, shocking news Rory McIlroy has filed for divorce. If this is a sign of things to come, Valhalla and the 106th PGA Championship may prove the scene.Weather damage was a theme when McIlroy won the event at Valhalla in 2014, his last major success. The threat of an electrical storm halted play around 10 a.m. Tuesday, and pregame media conferences were canceled for…

House Democrats have launched an investigation into a meeting between oil company executives and Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home and club last month, following reports that the former president offered to dismantle Biden’s environmental rules and requested $1bn in contributions to his presidential campaign.Democrats on the House oversight committee late on Monday evening sent letters to nine oil executives requesting information on their companies’ participation in the meeting.“Media reports raise significant potential ethical, campaign finance, and legal issues that would flow from the effective sale of American energy and regulatory policy to commercial interests in return for large campaign…

Saracens have confirmed that Billy and Marco Vunipola will leave the club at the end of the season, while Gloucester have also announced that Jonny May will be leaving. The trio have been regulars in the England squad over the past decade but will join a growing number of recent Test players making the move abroad in the summer.The departure of the Vunipola brothers has been known for some time, with Billy coming on as a substitute in Saracens’ win over Bristol last weekend in his first appearance since his arrest in Mallorca, and is set to join Montpellier Lie.…

The Canadian short-story writer and Nobel prize winner Alice Munro, who examined everyday life through the lens of short fiction for more than 60 years, has died aged 92 at her care home in Ontario. She had suffered from dementia for more than a decade.Once called “the Canadian Chekhov” by Cynthia Ozick, Munro’s body of work was founded on forms and subjects traditionally disregarded by the literary mainstream. It was only later in life that Munro’s reputation began to rise, her understated stories of apparently plain folks in undramatic, small-town Canada amassing a raft of international awards that included the…

oxygenWe are warned that leksandr Usyk is exhausted and angry. He was in no mood to talk as he was moved from room to room throughout Monday afternoon and forced to endure the tedium of countless TV and YouTube interviews as he was asked the same questions about his world heavyweight unification time and time again. old question.We agreed to let the IBF, WBA and WBO champion rest in peace as his only moment of escape from monotony came when Stanislav Stepchuk, one of the younger members of his entourage, was beaten by John Fernando John Fury gets headbutted to…

My father’s side of the family is Greek. They live next door to each other in Melbourne. There are holes cut in fences, so everyone can be together easily. It seems separate from the rest of Australia, but it’s a version of Greece abstracted from the real thing; its traditions are built on distant memories.These recipes are a mix of things I saw, ate and was taught while working in a village in the mountains of Crete and the hot, loud streets of Istanbul, as well as my own Greek heritage. Years of cooking them have turned them into something…

The Beyond Equality initiative, a global development program aimed at helping women progress in Formula 1 and motorsport, has announced the selection of its first female drivers.The six teenagers are considered the top prospects and will benefit most from participating in what is considered a unique approach, which uses Olympic-style talent ID and guidance from Lewis Hamilton’s former performance coach.The scheme is the latest to address the gender imbalance in motorsport, which remains dominated by male drivers. F1 has not seen a woman compete in a grand prix since Lella Lombardi raced in Austria in 1976.Beyond Equality is a privately…

When you set out to explore Donald Trump’s personal life and business practices, you don’t expect to meet any paragons of virtue.Sleazy media figures who buy and “kill” damaging stories? Yes. An adult film actor ready to tell all to make a buck? Certainly. A parade of spokespeople and staffers who compromised their own integrity during his presidential administration? No doubt.A conman, philanderer and grifter himself, the ex-president always has surrounded himself with dicey characters. That’s how he rolls. So it’s hardly surprising that Michael Cohen, the star prosecution witness in the so-called “hush-money” case unfolding in New York City,…

Deadlines have always been a great motivator, and now a major one is looming – death. This doesn’t feel tragic; a long deep sleep would be very nice. The question is, what do I have left to do while I am still here?I can’t deny the obvious markers of time: my face is sagging, my added weight won’t budge, I am less flexible. The real problem with youth is that we take our lovely, supple physicality for granted. Menopause won’t let me; my body is relentlessly becoming something else. It’s a blessing, of course, not having to bleed every month, not…

First goal: Burns’ players showed plenty of fighting spiritSarri has yet to emulate Manchester City’s dominance in the Premier League, but ominous comparisons are emerging. There is unity among the players; they are effective no matter who is selected; they want to win regardless of form, injury or condition.Perhaps most striking was their insistence on an approach that every opponent knew was coming but seemed unable to deal with it. Upside stability + power batting to take away the game in the middle and even late stages + classy seamers to explore any mental or technical flaws = winning cricket…