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Tuesday November 21 2023

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Rick Broadbent

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Rick Broadbent writes on a range of sports for The Times. He has worked at the Olympic Games, football and rugby world cups and all golf majors. The only Times journalist to interview the mute wrestler Kendo Nagasaki, he has been nominated as SJA feature writer of the year and has been shortlisted three times for the William Hill book prize.

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McIlroy, left, and Woods, right, will have to wait to launch their indoor golf league after the roof of the SoFi Center in Florida collapsed last week

Woods and McIlroy deflated as dome collapse delays indoor event by a year

The much trumpeted indoor golf league fronted by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy has been postponed until 2025.

The high-tech TGL simulator project...

Monday November 20 2023, 7.30pm, The Times

Five months after turning professional, Aberg confirms his status as a star in waiting by lifting the RSM Classic trophy in Georgia

Aberg shows golden touch to claim breakthrough PGA Tour title

Ludvig Aberg continued his inexorable rise as he won his first PGA Tour title at the RSM Classic at Sea Island in Georgia on Sunday night. In...

Monday November 20 2023, 12.01am, The Times

O’Sullivan celebrates his seventh world title at the Crucible last year with daughter Lily and son Ronnie Jr

SNOOKER | RICK BROADBENT

O’Sullivan documentary up there with Senna and Maradona

Alfred Hitchcock once stated that the director is God in feature films and God is the director when it came to documentaries. It is a nice line...

Monday November 20 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Luiten grew increasingly frustrated after getting three clubs stuck in a tree

Watch: golfer throws three clubs up tree in Dubai meltdown

The highs and lows of golf were summed up as Nicolai Hojgaard finished top of the metaphorical tree at the DP World Tour Championship — whereas...

Sunday November 19 2023, 7.00pm, The Times

Nicolai Hojgaard, left, is hoping that his twin brother, Rasmus, can produce a strong finish in the DP World Tour Championship and join him in the US next year

GOLF | RICK BROADBENT

Hojgaard twins fighting two very different battles in Dubai

If the Race to Dubai has already been decided, with Rory McIlroy assured of that particular crown, the subplots thickened on day two at the DP...

Saturday November 18 2023, 12.01am, The Times

McIlroy arrived at his ball to find it resting on a fan’s crossed legs, then joked about hitting it before taking a free drop

Play it as it lies? McIlroy’s ball finds fan’s thighs in Dubai

After the politics in the boardroom and the rant in the parking lot, Rory McIlroy said he just wanted to play golf. It must have seemed...

Thursday November 16 2023, 1.00pm, The Times

Herman was a manager at Woods’s restaurant in Florida

Woods’s ex-girlfriend drops sexual misconduct claims

Tiger Woods’s ex-girlfriend has dropped her sexual misconduct claims against the 15-times major champion.

Erica Herman, 39, had claimed that Woods...

Thursday November 16 2023, 12.00pm, The Times

McGinley, who was Europe’s captain in the 2014 Ryder Cup, said McIlroy “has been left to do a lot on his own”

‘McIlroy took a bullet for PGA players – he needed more help’

Paul McGinley, the former European Ryder Cup captain, believes Rory McIlroy did not receive enough support from his peers as the dust settles on...

Wednesday November 15 2023, 8.30pm, The Times

Zakrzewski represented Scotland in the women’s marathon at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014

Ultra-marathon runner who used car in race given one-year ban

A top ultra-marathon runner who won a trophy after finishing third in a race in Manchester has been banned for 12 months after admitting she used...

Wednesday November 15 2023, 5.00pm, The Times

Fernihough outside his premises in Weybridge, Surrey in 1937. He died a year later during a land speed record attempt in Hungary

MOTOR SPORT | RICK BROADBENT

The tale of penniless British boffin who beat Hitler’s speed record

There is a grave not far from my house in Bournemouth. It belongs to Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, and is positioned opposite the...

Tuesday November 14 2023, 5.45pm, The Times

McIlroy and Cantlay’s caddie LaCava became involved in a heated argument on Saturday of this year’s Ryder Cup

McIlroy calls Cantlay a ‘d***’ and reignites Ryder Cup feud

Rory McIlroy has branded Patrick Cantlay a “dick” and reheated their Ryder Cup row after a weekend when the Northern Irishman wrapped up his...

Monday November 13 2023, 12.03am, The Times

Collins’ landmark 1995 fight with Eubank is the subject of a new film opening at the Irish Film Festival this week

BOXING | STEVE COLLINS INTERVIEW

Two Oliver Reeds, a wolfhound and a hypnotist – life with Steve Collins

When a barefooted Oliver Reed tumbled into the room with his shirt hiked up atop his vast stomach, Steve Collins sensed trouble. The actor and...

Monday November 13 2023, 12.03am, The Times

Pattison celebrated winning a World Championships bronze in Budapest three years after having heart surgery

ATHLETICS | BEN PATTISON INTERVIEW

‘I watched them take a blowtorch to my heart – then I won bronze’

The biggest fear for Ben Pattison was that heart surgery might shed him of his superpower. It was the summer of 2020, the nation was locked down...

Friday November 10 2023, 7.00pm, The Times

Nuttall won a 5,000m bronze medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games

Nuttall, Olympic runner and husband of McColgan, dies at 56

Tributes have been paid to John Nuttall, the British Olympic long-distance runner, who has died suddenly at the age of 56.

Nuttall’s wife, the...

Friday November 10 2023, 4.00pm, The Times

Meronk was left out of the European team by Donald, despite a successful year

GOLF | ADRIAN MERONK INTERVIEW

‘Watching Ryder Cup was tough – I was glad when it finished’

It has been a testing couple of months for Adrian Meronk. Left off the European Ryder Cup team, he went through stages of “shock, sadness and...

Wednesday November 08 2023, 10.30pm, The Times

Masters champion Rahm has announced he will not play in the new indoor league

Blow for Woods and McIlroy as Rahm pulls out of indoor league

Jon Rahm has delivered a significant blow to Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods’ primetime indoor golf league (TGL) by pulling out only a day after the...

Thursday November 02 2023, 5.30pm, The Times

Semenya’s informative account of her battles with athletics authorities reveals her undeniably extraordinary resilience

ATHLETICS | RICK BROADBENT

‘It was like being wiped off the map of humanity’ – Semenya’s story

The day before Caster Semenya won the 800m world title and ran into a world of controversy she was on a hospital bed in Berlin with her legs in...

Wednesday November 01 2023, 7.00pm, The Times

O’Grady, in his West Yorkshire home with his two caps and the letter, now framed, he received from Shankly after joining Huddersfield

FOOTBALL | MIKE O’GRADY INTERVIEW

More England goals than caps for only man signed by Shankly and Revie

When Ollie Watkins scored for England against Australia this month it threw up one of those quirky statistical nuggets. He had found the net in...

Monday October 30 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Fury is counted by referee Michael Griffin after being knocked down by Ngannou, who had never boxed professionally before, in the third round

BOXING | RICK BROADBENT

Fury’s fight to save face with Usyk delayed until 2024

Before he was floored, humbled and stripped of his showman shtick, Tyson Fury had likened Francis Ngannou’s prospects on Saturday night to those...

Sunday October 29 2023, 3.45pm, The Times

The police have launched an official investigation into claims by Jakob, left, and his brothers that their father, Gjert, right, abused them

ATHLETICS | RICK BROADBENT

Fear and loathing behind the Ingebrigtsens’ fairytale

There are 17 people and three generations in the photograph below. They wear matching knitwear and smiles, but this cuddly portrayal of a happy...

Saturday October 28 2023, 6.00pm, The Sunday Times