You cannot be serious! Smashed John McEnroe racket set to be sold at auction Sport Business A tennis racket smashed by John McEnroe during one of his famous fits of rage is going under the hammer in an auction of sports memorabilia next month. The wooden-framed Dunlop Maxfly Fort mangled by McEnroe dates back to his heyday in the early 1980s, when the combustible American won multiple Wimbledon and US Open [...]
Rory McIlroy, Gout Gout and the search for sport’s elusive heroes Sport Business Rory McIlroy’s back-to-back Masters triumphs have triggered the inevitable mythologising. Destiny fulfilled, demons banished after previous heartbreak, a journey not only completed but now extended. If he was merely the Hero of Hollywood before (that’s Hollywood, County Down not Los Angeles), to many the golfer has now donned the mantle of universal sporting hero along [...]