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Briefs
Updated: 11-Nov-2004
‘The Beast of Brooklyn’
America, humiliated by Bernhard Langer’s heroes at Oakland Hills in September, has decided to go for a more aggressive approach at the K Club in Ireland in 2006, by appointing Tom Lehman as its new Ryder Cup captain. The controversial and ultra-competitive player, who got the job ahead of Mark O’Meara, Fred Couples and Larry Nelson, is remembered for his triumphant celebrations in 1999, which led Sam Torrance to comment: “It was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen on a golf course.”
Rags to riches
Luol Deng, 19, made his debut for the Chicago Bulls basketball team last weekend. He has signed a three-year contract worth four million euros and it is thought that he could earn well over 150 million euros during his career. That is a lot of money for the Sudanese refugee who arrived in Brixton, London as a four-year old.
Girl power
Australia’s richest flat race of the season, the Melbourne Cup, was won by the Lee Freedman-trained, Makybe Diva, who became the first mare ever to take back-to-back runnings of the famous event. Ireland’s Vinnie Roe finished a gallant second conceding six pounds, but Sir Michael Stoute’s Distinction was well beaten. Owner Harry Herbert had insisted on replacing regular jockey, Kieron Fallon, with course specialist, Darren Beadman, but the decision backfired as the Australian always had the multiple winner too far back, coming home in sixth place.
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