In the great outdoors, a time to brace and a time to chase

What more do you need as an excuse to visit Dallas than the spectacle of bulls trying to throw off their riders, spectators trying to capture hapless sheep galloping around an arena at full tilt?

Forgotten Fuzhou trumps the rest

Breathtaking scenery, beaches and forests - and that's just the beginning

Rare Champagne grapes flourish with global warming

After languishing in the shadow of the Chardonnay and Pinot vines that turn out France's famed bubbly, four lesser known Champagne grapes are getting an unlikely boost thanks to climate change.

Celta lowers the boom on Barca

Barcelona coach Luis Enrique hailed the quality displayed by his former club Celta Vigo as it thrashed the European champion 4-1 on Wednesday.

Wenger hails fighting Flamini's perseverance

Arsene Wenger saluted Mathieu Flamini's decision to fight for his place after the French midfielder's brilliant brace sealed Arsenal's 2-1 League Cup triumph at bitter rival Tottenham on Wednesday.

'Motivated' Spieth set to pay back racin' Jason

Jordan Spieth said he was "destroyed" by Jason Day's red-hot scoring in recent weeks and he is aiming to pay back the Australian on the East Lake layout that is hosting this week's Tour Championship.

Lewandowski's lethal legwork

Robert Lewandowski was the first to admit he had little idea how fast his goals flew in after scoring five times in nine minutes to write Bundesliga history in Bayern Munich's 5-1 rout of Wolfsburg on Tuesday.

How Swede it is for hard-charging Henrik

The past five winners of the FedEx Cup also won the Tour Championship. Vijay Singh in 2008 and Tiger Woods in 2009 are the only FedEx Cup champions who did not win at East Lake.

Yankee legend Berra dead at 90

Yogi Berra, the Hall of Fame catcher renowned as much for his dizzying malapropisms as his record 10 World Series championships with the New York Yankees, died on Tuesday. He was 90.

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NHL goons on endangered list

Goons are pretty much gone from the National Hockey League.

Hamilton still chasing idol Senna

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton was in the form of his life when he arrived in Singapore, looking to match the 41 career wins of his boyhood idol Ayrton Senna in a dominant season that had seen him win seven of the season's first 12 grand prix races.