Tiger Woods believes either Darren Clarke or Miguel Angel Jimenez would make an ideal European Ryder Cup captain in 2016.

Beware this might make you feel a little older.

Graeme McDowell, one of the favourites, will go into the British Open tomorrow determined to keep his own “dangerous” expectations in check.

Garbage are aiming to release their new album next year.

EVERY now and then a movie comes out of nowhere, made on the cheap, and becomes a classic.

Just as he knew best about most things, it seems Shankly was right again.

The Cabin in the Woods (16s) begins in an entirely conventional fashion, as five college kids take off in a camper van for a weekend at, you guessed it, a remote cabin in the woods.

Stephen Rea plays a detective who dreams of arresting Butch Cassidy in the atmospheric western, Blackthorn, says Pádraic Killeen

DARREN CLARKE last night stood up for Tiger Woods and gave the former world number one a ringing endorsement as a human being and not just a golfing machine with myriad personal problems to solve.

Foo Fighters have released a second preview snippet from their new album.

Nirvana members Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear we were reunited onstage this week.

ULSTER were dealt a major blow ahead of this afternoon’s must-win Heineken Cup trip to Bath, barnstorming flanker Stephen Ferris pulling out with a leg injury.

Garbage are working on a new album.

SO the transfer window slams down on our fingers again, and who were they reaching towards?

Bath fly-half Butch James is a notable absentee from the South Africa bench for this weekend's Tri Nations encounter against Australia in Bloemfontein.

MASTERS champion Phil Mickelson last night revealed he has started treatment for a condition known as psoriatic arthritis.

AT Butch McGuire’s bar in downtown Chicago early on Thursday afternoon a man walks in and asks for a Bloody Mary – and Natasha’s jug.

THERE’S no pleasing some people. Drop 20 points out of 30 and the manager’s clueless, the players are charlatans and the club is heading to hell in a Honda.

Phil Mickelson is taking advice on what course of action to follow in the wake of accusations of cheating.

John Travolta and Tom Cruise are keen to remake ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’.

THEY’VE got previous in that there London. Great train robbers, artful dodgers and now Mad Frankie Arnesen (allegedly).

Martin Dwyer has been hit with a 16-day suspension by the British Horseracing Authority under the "totting up" procedure.

IT was an inquiry regarding an Open Championship long ago, the 1999 debacle at Carnoustie. Wasn’t it Davis Love who said something to the effect that championship officials got the winner they deserved, meaning that a tricked-up course couldn’t help but produce a winner (Paul Lawrie) deemed as undeserving?

PHIL MICKELSON is unsure how he will react to the wave of support he will experience at this week’s US Open as he aims to sign off from golf with a fourth major victory.

Phil Mickelson is unsure how he will react to the wave of support he will experience at this week’s US Open as he aims to sign off from golf with a fourth major victory.

IF CHELSEA thought they had shaken off some kind of eternal European foe in defeating Liverpool, after one of the Champions League’s all-time classic matches, then they are about to feel like Butch and Sundance did every time they looked over their shoulders and saw the Pinkerton detectives relentlessly appearing on the horizon to pursue them.

ONE of the most damning indictments of Scolari’s reign was that even Nice Bloke Wilkins was more capable of changing a game than the World Cup winning boss as he demonstrated at Watford last Saturday.

Former Ryder Cup player Ignacio Garrido, needing to find form this season to keep his European Tour career afloat, swept clear of the field when the Spanish Open resumed in Seville today.

Former Open champion John Daly insisted today that his drinking is not out of control and vowed: “I’ll be back.”

World number two Phil Mickelson has said that his respiratory problem should not now keep him out of the Buick Invitational starting at Torrey Pines near his San Diego home tomorrow.

LOCH Bo Butch is the star turn at the two-day Cork Cup coursing meeting which starts at Blarney on St Stephen’s Day.

Despite struggling off the tee, Phil Mickelson enjoyed a good start at the Barclays Singapore Open today – carding a three under-par 68 to share second spot midway through the opening round.

Bath have completed the signing of Springboks fly-half Butch James on a two-year contract.

On the condition of anonymity, a PGA Tour pro ranks his top 10 to win the U.S. Open at Oakmont.

Veteran actor Robert Redford is "depressed" after hearing reports Matt Damon and Ben Affleck would star in a remake of his classic film Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid.

DARREN CLARKE out because of his wife’s ongoing battle against cancer, Pádraig Harrington under something of a cloud, also because of the serious illness of his father and coming off the back of missing the cut in the Booz Allen Classic at the weekend.

Set in Belfast during the troubled l970s, Loane's debut feature tells the story of two little lads whose adventures lead them into dark and dangerous waters.

Tiger Woods reacted angrily today to ruining what could have been a brilliant start to the NEC world championship in Akron.

Adam Scott, who came down to earth with a bump after his fabulous victory in golf’s unofficial fifth Major in March, returned from a five-week break in Germany today.

New Italian Open champion Graeme McDowell believes contributions from his support team can help him start to taste success more frequently on the European Tour.

Graeme McDowell shrugged off a niggling hamstring injury to set the clubhouse target in the delayed second round of the Italian Open today.

The story of two pigs who evaded certain death at an abattoir is to be retold on Easter Monday in a BBC family film.

Darren Clarke has finally got his body in good shape, now he needs to do the same with his golf game.

Corrie killer Richard Hillman’s canal death plunge has been voted the top soap moment of all time.