Golf: All-conquering American golfing duo Tiger Woods and David Duval, ranked first and second in the world, sparkled on Wednesday in the first round of the $3.5 million World Challenge to share the lead by three shots.
Woods, who is 24 today, and Duval, part of the victorious Ryder Cup team, both hit five-under-par 65s to lead fellow 1999 Ryder Cup hero Tom Lehman, who was on two-under-par. Only four players broke par on the 7,036-yard course.
Woods, who hit a hot streak in the final half of 1999 as he collected seven titles in that period including the PGA Championship, will donate the million dollar winner's cheque from this unofficial and exclusive PGA Tour event which gathers 12 of the world's top players to his foundation which helps children from the inner cities learn to play golf.
"Overall I was very pleased to take a month off and come back and play well today," Woods said.
Lehman is in sole possession of third place and another American, Justin Leonard, is a further stroke back.
Woods was only one-under par on the front nine with birdies on third and sixth holes and a bogey on the 562-yard fourth. But he hit a golden streak on the inward nine with four birdies, including three successive birdies.
Athletics: The B sample taken from a second drugs test on Germany's former Olympic champion Dieter Baumann has tested positive for nandrolone, the German Athletics Federation (DLV) announced yesterday.
The findings, which emanated from a drugs test Baumann failed on November 12th, follow the announcement on Tuesday that the B sample from an earlier failed drugs test, on October 19th, had also confirmed the presence of nandrolone.
Baumann, who in 1992 became the first European to win 5,000 metres Olympic gold since Finland's Lasse Viren won in 1976, is currently serving an indefinite ban after testing positive at a training session in October - he was 10 times over the permitted level.
The 34-year-old, who also won Olympic silver at 5,000 metres in 1988, faces a two-year ban, though the federation said they would announce their final decision at the end of January.
However, Baumann, who has always presented a squeaky clean sporting image, has maintained his innocence.
Soccer: Ronaldo was given a poignant present for his wedding from former Inter Milan team-mate Mauro Milanese - a sponsored Brazilian child.
Milanese, who now plays for Perugia, gave the "long-distance adoption" gift to the Brazil striker, who is due to become a father himself in April, an Italian charity said.
Ronaldo (23) married model Milene Domingues (22) on Christmas Eve at his mother's house in a wealthy district of Rio de Janeiro. Wedding guests included two of the striker's close friends from his early years in a poor Rio neighbourhood.
