Golf Comment: Astounding 66 made Lefty a worthy champ July 21, 2013 HE IS no stranger to winning Majors but I suspect that yesterday’s dazzling and triumphant final round at the Open will stay with Phil Mickelson for as long as he lives. Shooting a 66 on a Muirfield course that proved such a test to the best players in the world is astounding. Lefty, as he [...]
Sport Comment: Sir Chris? Save the honours for when our sporting heroes retire July 21, 2013 A RISE Sir Andy Murray. Sir Chris Froome. Sir Alastair Cook. It was almost arise Sir Lee Westwood but for a masterful final round from Phil Mickelson at the Open yesterday. It’s going to be a busy time for the sporting honours committee when they sit down and ponder handing out the gongs in the [...]
You’re letting the country down, Clarke tells Australian batsmen July 21, 2013 AUSTRALIA captain Michael Clarke hit out at his fellow batsmen, after the tourists managed only 363 runs during the two innings of the second Test defeat at Lord’s. The visitors have a mountain to climb in order to reclaim the Ashes, having lost the opening two Tests against England for the first time since 1978-79. [...]
Ban cheats for longer, says Coe July 21, 2013 ATHLETICS: Lord Coe, vice-president of governing body the IAAF, has called for doping bans to be increased from two years to four. Track’s credibility is in crisis after it emerged last week that sprinters Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell had both tested positive. “We have to go back from two years to four years,” said [...]
Arthur: I’ve been targeted July 21, 2013 CRICKET: Sacked Australia coach Mickey Arthur says he has been the victim of a “campaign” since beginning legal proceedings against Cricket Australia. Arthur, who was sacked last month, said he was keen to reach an agreement “in spite of what has been a deliberate campaign against me in the past days”.
Review: A Season In The Congo July 18, 2013 THEATRE A SEASON IN THE CONGO Young Vic | By Xenobe Purvis Four Stars THE Young Vic stage is transformed into a busy Congolese bar at the opening of A Season in the Congo, Aimé Césaire’s play about the African country’s first Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba. Out of the muddle emerges a beer salesman – [...]
Review: Breathe in July 18, 2013 FILM BREATHE IN Cert 15 | By Steve Dinneen Four Stars BREATHE In is an almost unbearably tense drama about first, lost and forbidden love that will drag memories of every bad thing you’ve done in a relationship from the pit of your stomach. Guy Pierce plays Keith, a high school teacher in [...]
Review: Timber! July 18, 2013 THEATRE TIMBER! Southbank Centre | By Alex Dymoke Three Stars CIRQUE Alfonse isn’t afraid to eschew the conventions of family entertainment. Its new show Timber! features Michael Jackson-style baby dangling, worryingly inept axe juggling and lots and lots of drinking. The bottles may not contain real booze, but the show is as much [...]
Review: Richard Rogers Inside Out July 18, 2013 ART RICHARD ROGERS INSIDE OUT Royal Academy | By Alex Dymoke Four Stars THE new Richard Rogers exhibition at the Royal Academy includes his 1958 report from the Architectural Association School. It reads: “Rogers has a genuine interest in and a feeling for architecture, but sorely lacks the intellectual equipment to translate these [...]
Review: The World’s End July 18, 2013 FILM THE WORLD’S END Cert 12a | By Alex Dymoke Three Stars MORRISON’S car parks, Kit Kats, national rail services from Leicester to Coventry – it’s easy to hate the banal rubbishness of small-town Britain. But as a spate of offbeat British comedies have shown, it’s easy to love it too. Hot Fuzz, [...]