Athletics - New York

Marathon cancelled as

residents complain

New York City has cancelled its annual marathon, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, as Sunday's race had become a lightning rod for residents frustrated by the disastrous aftermath of megastorm Sandy.

Tiger Woods blames

 fatigue after a long season

 for missing WGC

in China

Tiger Woods said fatigue was the reason he skipped this week's World Golf Championship event in China.

As Australian Adam Scott and South African Louis Oosthuizen grabbed the first-round lead at the $7 million event in Shenzhen on Thursday, the 36-year-old Woods was holding a putting clinic for school children in Singapore.

The main sponsor had been unhappy Woods and world number one McIlroy chose to miss the WGC event despite being in the country and playing in a lucrative exhibition event.

Woods said he was looking forward to competing in the World Challenge in December, an invitational event he hosts in California, before ... Read more »

Ronaldo reunites

mother and daughter

on TV

Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo played the unlikely role of agony aunt when he popped up on an Italian television show to help a feuding family.

Ronaldo channelled his inner Jeremy Kyle to appear on - 'C'e posta per te' (I have a letter for you) — to help a mother restore a relationship with her daughter.

The mother in the show was struggling financially so she moved in with her son and sent her daughter to live with her father against her will, which caused the two to have a falling out.

With their relationship in tatters, the woman then 'wrote a letter' to the daughter which was delivered in person by Ronaldo (who the girl i ... Read more »

 $8.5 million? Not bad for a

 game of cards

Poker player Greg Merson is a very wealthy man after winning a staggering $8.5 million (£5.26 million) in the game's most prestigious event — the World Series of Poker.

To put that into context that is more than double the winners of Wimbledon ($1.857 million), the Open Championship ($1.452 million) and the Tour de France ($583,680) get combined.

Whether or not you think poker is a 'sport' is open to debate, but you can't deny it is a staggering achievement.

Here Martin Rodgers of Yahoo! Sports tells the story of Merson's amazing win and how he had a helping hand from a certain Olympic legend.

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A series of supp ... Read more »