World No. 1 Rory McIlroy stormed his way to a second Wells Fargo Championship success, a second victory in three weeks, a third triumph this season and the 18th win of his professional career.

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Wayne Rooney ended his goal drought as Manchester United set up a mouth-watering FA Cup quarter-final against Arsenal.

Tiger Woods vowed to "keep fighting" and ruled out using injury as an excuse after the worst round of his professional career left him staring at a last-place finish at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

Bae Sang-moon won his second PGA Tour event as he claimed a two-shot victory at the Frys.com Open in California.

Short sellers are making their first bets on a retreat in Alibaba Group a week after the company priced the world’s biggest-ever initial public offering.

Padraig Harrington has missed the cut at the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina.

Actress Julie Walters has told of her shock at hearing that her radical Irish great grandfather was briefly jailed on "trumped-up" murder charges because he fought against land eviction.

Scotland’s Martin Laird charged into contention for the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open at Royal Aberdeen on Saturday.

Sharon Stone is "available for dating" again.

Sergio Garcia today set the clubhouse target in the third round of the Open at Muirfield as he looked to break his major duck at the 60th attempt.

Sharon Stone has reached a settlement with her former nanny, after she claimed the Oscar winner insulted her Filipino heritage.

Three members of Britain’s House of Lords were suspended by their parties yesterday after apparently being caught in newspaper stings agreeing to lobby Parliament in return for cash.

A man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a Texas college told investigators he had fantasised about cannibalism, necrophilia and cutting off people’s faces and wearing them as masks.

Kate Moss and Sharon Stone kissed at a charity event.

Rory McIlroy and Martin Laird both had every reason to be cheerful today as they arrived in Augusta for the first major of the year after perfect results at the Valero Texas Open.

Rory McIlroy and Pádraig Harrington, two of Ireland’s five challengers in this week’s Masters, honed their skills ahead of Augusta with impressive performances as they remained very much in contention for the major prizes entering the closing holes in the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio.

Sharon Stone had a "white light" experience when she suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2001.

Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood made poor starts to the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth today – but at least they were not in last place like Padraig Harrington.

American Matt Kuchar won golf’s richest event at Sawgrass on Sunday night – and denied Scotland’s Martin Laird for the second time in his career.

Rickie Fowler has given himself the chance of back-to-back wins after a brilliant third-round charge in the Players Championship at Sawgrass.

Golf’s man-of-the-moment Rickie Fowler took a starring role again today with a third-round charge in the Players Championship at Sawgrass.

Martin Laird and Ian Poulter tumbled out of the lead while world number one Rory McIlroy crashed out of golf’s richest event again on Friday.

Scotland’s Martin Laird held the outright lead at eight under par after seven holes of his Players Championship second round at Sawgrass.

It was agony and ecstasy for two of England’s stars at golf’s richest event today.

It was agony and ecstasy for two of England’s stars at golf’s richest event today.

Chez Reavie and Martin Laird toured the Augusta course yesterday in a little over four hours when most rounds are taking around five. How?

Two double bogeys in the first group on the first hole gave an early warning that the second round of The Masters was going to be another tough test today.

Paul Lawrie made his first round in The Masters since 2004 one to remember at Augusta National today.

Gareth Bale admitted he was not sure the decisive penalty he won in Tottenham’s FA Cup fifth-round replay win over Stevenage at White Hart Lane last night should have been given.

Game on. Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy will go head-to-head in the semi-finals of the Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson tomorrow – and the reward for the winner at the end of the day could be the world number one spot.

Hunter Mahan, the man whose defeat to Graeme McDowell decided the last Ryder Cup, raced into the semi-finals of the Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson today.

Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood still have a chance to go to world number one this weekend – and they do not have to beat Tiger Woods to get there.

Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood kept alive their hopes of securing the world No 1 ranking when they cruised into the last 16 of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.

You wouldn’t bet against Tottenham going on to lift the FA Cup in May, especially as a home draw with Bolton Wanderers awaits them in the quarter-finals.

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Ryan Nelsen made his full debut as Tottenham looked to avoid an upset and move in to the last eight of the FA Cup with a win over League One side Stevenage at the Lamex Stadium.

Sharon Stone was "broken" after losing custody of her 11-year-old son.

AMERICAN Steve Stricker birdied two of the last three holes to fire a four-under-par 69 in the final round to win the US PGA Hyundai Tournament of Champions by three strokes.

Australian duo Richard Green and Brendan Jones carded a superb 61 to take a two-shot lead over Ireland and Scotland after the first round of the World Cup in China.

Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell finally have the chance this week to make up for the disappointment of losing the World Cup by one shot two years ago.

Tiger Woods went in two lakes and 11 bunkers as he totally wasted what had earlier been a flying start to the USPGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club.

A storming finish took Australian Adam Scott back into the lead with a round to go at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron today.