Tiger Woods hires Joe LaCava as new caddie

LaCava was the long-term bagman for Fred Couples, but the pair split in the summer after the veteran decided to reduce his playing schedule.

LaCava has since been with Dustin Johnson, with whom he was working at this week’s Tour Championship.

“Joe is an outstanding caddie, and I have known him for many years,” said 35-year-old Woods.
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Why would Joe LaCava walk out on a top five player like Dustin Johnson to caddie for Tiger Woods? The answer lies in the schedules of both golfers. LaCava, who has children aged 14 and 12 does not want excessive travel and Johnson is considering playing both PGA and European Tours. Even fully fit Woods plays a relatively limited schedule. La Cava is a good fit for the former number one. An imposing figure, he enjoyed success with Johnson winning The Barclays recently, and gained a fine reputation as the longtime bagman for Woods’ friend Fred Couples.

“I’ve personally seen the great job he did for Freddie. I’m anxious for us to be working together.”

LaCava informed Johnson – who finished tied 23rd – of his decision after the final round of the Tour Championship on Sunday.Authentic Baseball Jerseys

Woods, who has been without a caddie since severing ties with Williams in July, also spoke to Johnson and Couples to alert him of the decision.

LaCava’s first tournament with Woods will be the Frys.com Open from 6-9 October.wholesale Ronaldo soccer jerseys

“I’m excited to be working with Tiger,” LaCava said. “Tiger and I have been friends for a very long time,Cheap Flower Girl Dresses and I know what he can do.

“I want to thank Dustin for the opportunity to work with him,wholesale POLO Ralph Lauren SERIE and I wish him nothing but the best.”

New Zealander Williams carried Woods’s bag for 13 of his 14 major wins, after joining the former world number one in 1999.

Woods’s world ranking has slipped to 50th and he has not won a tournament since the 2009 Australian Masters.

Rugby World Cup 2011 Pool C Italy v United States

Nick Mallett’s side, who still have a chance of making the quarter-finals, retain Sergio Parisse, who captains the side for the 34th time.

The United States select the same 22 that beat Russia, before they made 14 changes for the loss to Australia.

Lock Hayden Smith is the only player who keeps his place from the 67-5 defeat by the Wallabies.

Open-side flanker Todd Clever returns to captain the US team, who have lost both their previous games against Italy.

“I’m not saying we’ll beat Italy, that’d be an arrogant thing to say,” said US coach Eddie O’Sullivan said. “But I think we can test Italy and see what they’ve got.

“They are a very good set piece team, very physical, carry the ball aggressively, take it through phases and have a good kicking game. They’re pretty much the full package this time round.”
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If we play well against the USA we can take off some players and I would like to do so

Nick Mallett Italy coach

Italy have used 30 players so far during this World Cup, with hooker Franco Sbaglarini,wholesale Jordan shoes who was called up to replace the injured Tommaso D’Apice several days ago, the only player yet to feature.

Along with Parisse, the five other players to keep their place from the 53-17 win over Russia are Andrea Masi, Tommaso Benvenuti, Mauro Bergamasco, Salvatore Perugini and Quintin Geldenhuys.

“I had a look at the players against Russia and there were a lot of defensive errors,” said Mallett.

“It was the same backline that played Japan and to concede three tries against Japan and Russia isn’t good enough.prada sunglasses wholesale If this backline had played against Russia, we would have scored just as many points,Mocler Boots but conceded far fewer.”

“If we play well against the USA we can take off some players and I would like to do so. If I have the chance to take off Sergio Parisse or Martin Castrogiovanni at the 60-minute mark I would love to, but I can’t risk the match if the scores are close.”

Italy team: Andrea Masi; Tommaso Benvenuti, Gonzalo Canale, Gonzalo Garcia, Mirco Bergamasco; Luciano Orquera, Fabio Semenzato; Salvatore Perugini, Leonardo Ghiraldini, Martin Castrogiovanni, Quintin Geldenhuys, Cornelius van Zyl, Alessandro Zanni, Mauro Bergamasco, Sergio Parisse (capt).

Reserves: Fabio Ongaro, Andrea Lo Cicero, Marco Bortolami, Paul Derbyshire, Edoardo Gori, Riccardo Bocchino, Luke McLean.

United States: Chris Wyles; Taku Ngwenya, Paul Emerick, Andrew Suniula, James Paterson; Roland Suniula, Mike Petri; Mike MacDonald, Chris Biller, Matekitonga Moeakiola, John van der Giessen, Hayden Smith, Louis Stanfill, Todd Clever (capt), Nic Johnson.

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Geraint Thomas wants Mark Cavendish to join Team Sky

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When asked if Cavendish was joining Sky, Thomas told BBC Sport: “I hope so.2012 nfl super bowl jerseys

“He has proved he’s the fastest in the world and to have him in the team would be amazing. To lead him out, week in week out, would be special.”

Cavendish and David Millar were the only members of the eight-strong British team in Copenhagen who do not ride professionally for Team Sky.

Thomas, Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome,brand name watches Steve Cummings, Jeremy Hunt and Ian Stannard are all on the books of the team that only began to compete in January 2010.

Welshman Thomas played a pivotal role in helping Cavendish find a perfect position on the road, after 266km of racing, to launch himself to victory and said it was a pleasure to lead out his team-mate.

“He’s a great leader and he lets you know exactly what he wants to do,cleveland cavaliers jerseys” the 25-year-old stated. “It makes your job so much easier.

“[The final sprint] was pretty dodgy. There were quite a few guys who wouldn’t have had too much work to do in the race, so there were a few fresh legs around but we’re used to that sort of thing and we finished it off.

“Seeing Cavendish cross the line with his hands in the air was a great feeling and we all felt we had a good role to play in that. It was an amazing day.”

Thomas is set to put his road racing aspirations on hold next year though as he focuses his attentions on defending the Olympic team pursuit title he won in Beijing.

“The Olympics is my main goal [in 2012],” he said.

“The home Olympics doesn’t come round every day and to be in with a chance of winning the team pursuit on the track. I want to give that 100%.

“The Tour de France may not jeopardise my chances, but it’s an added risk so I will probably miss it.”

Warnings mount on euro crisis, BRICS mull more aid

World leaders and finance chiefs demanded Europe act decisively to quell its debt crisis and big emerging economies said they would consider providing more money to help prevent the chaos from spreading.

As finance ministers and central bankers gathered for talks in Washington against a backdrop of plunging stock markets, the leaders of Australia,Mocler Boots Canada, Indonesia, Britain, Mexico, South Africa and South Korea stressed Sports jerseys wholesalethe risk of the euro zone crisis spreading worldwide.

“Euro zone governments and institutions must act swiftly to resolve the euro crisis and all European economies must confront the debt overhang to prevent contagion to the wider global economy,” the leaders wrote in an open letter to France,wholesale Jordan shoes chair of the Group of 20 leading economies.

Separately, officials from the so-called BRICS countries, including heavyweights China, Brazil and India, said they would consider giving more funds to the International Monetary Fund to boost global stability.

But India warned it might not be able to spare much.

“We represent a group of countries where there is (an) enormous amount of demand for resources at home for poverty reduction,” Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao told a joint BRICS news conference in Washington.

China’s central bank governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, said major emerging markets should boost domestic demand as a means to take up some of the slack caused by weakness in the United States and Europe.

“Actually the BRICS countries represent quite a big share of the global economy. In today’s crisis period,prada sunglasses wholesale internal demand of each economy is important, and we should find a way to enlarge internal demand in our economy,” Zhou said.

Meg Whitman Is Hewlett-Packard’s New CEO

Hewlett-Packard Co. Thursday named board member and former eBay head Meg Whitman as the new CEO, while promoting non-executive chairman Ray Lane as executive chairman of the board. The developments follow HP’s decision “that Leo Apotheker step down as president and chief executive officer and resign as a director of the company.”

Commenting on the executive revamp, Ray Lane said, “The board believes that the job of the HP CEO now requires additional attributes to successfully execute on the company’s strategy.cheap wedding dress Meg Whitman has the right operational and communication skills and leadership abilities to deliver improved execution and financial performance.”

Whitman joined HP’s board earlier this year after an eventful career as eBay CEO until 2008. She also unsuccessfully contested for the governorship of California last year. At eBay, Whitman was credited with turning it into a multi-billion corporation with sales of $7.7 billion when she left, up from just $86 million at the time of her joining the online auctioneer in 1998. But her stay there was tinged with criticism as growth slowed amid mounting competition from e-commerce sites like Amazon.com. She also drew criticism for eBay’s $2.5 billion purchase of Skye in 2005 that also led to huge write-down charges.juicy sunglasses wholesale

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Apotheker’s tenure at the helm of HP was a turbulent one, during which time the world’s largest PC company lost nearly half its market value. Apotheker had on three occasions cut the company’s financial outlook and was involved in controversial decisions that baffled investors.

World is safer 10 years after 9/11: EU,steeler jerseys cheap NATO

The world is safer today than in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the United States, with global terror groups weaker than 10 years ago, senior EU and NATO officials said Monday.

A decade after Al-Qaeda traumatised the United States, the terror network has lost its leader, Osama bin Laden, and proved irrelevant in the revolutions sweeping the Arab world,wholesales mac Lip gloss said EU counter-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove.

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The once mighty group has been worn down by the NATO-led war in Afghanistan, which served as its safe haven prior to 9/11, and reinforced international cooperation, de Kerchove said.

“Today an attack of the scale and sophistication of 9/11 is no longer possible,” he told a news conference. “Does it mean that we’re completely out of the threat? Probably not.”

He added: “Are we safer today than before? I can say yes.”

De Kerchove stressed that the world still faced terror threats, as the deadly shooting and bombing rampage by a Norwegian right-wing extremist showed this summer in Norway.

Terrorism has also evolved into a more complex and diversified menace, with Al-Qaeda franchises operating in Africa and the Arabian peninsula, he said.

At a separate briefing,Pittsburgh Pirates Jerseys NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen noted that 9/11 prompted the military alliance to invoke its mutual defence clause for the first time in its history and deploy troops to Afghanistan.

Ancient Sacrificer Found With Blades in Peru Tomb

With ancient ceremonial knives at his side,chi hair straigntener an elite 14th-century executioner—a key player in human-sacrifice rituals—has been uncovered in a tomb at a pre-Inca site in Peru, archaeologists suggest.

The tomb was found at Chotuna-Chornancap, a coastal site near the Peruvian city of Chiclayo (map). The site was once an important ceremonial center of the Lambayeque culture,steeler jerseys cheap also known as the Sicán.

The culture lived along the northern coasts of Peru from around A.D.starcraft 2 Coaching 800 until around 1375, when the neighboring Chimú civilization conquered the Sicán.

(Related: “Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid.”)

Previous excavations at Chotuna-Chornancap by Peruvian archaeologist Carlos Wester La Torre, who led the team that found the purported sacrificer, revealed a temple containing the remains of several women who were mutilated as part of human-sacrifice rituals.

Wester and other Peruvian archaeologists have suggested that the rulers of Chotuna-Chornancap may have claimed to be the descendants of Naylamp, a god-like figure from the sea that legend says founded the Sicán culture.

(See photos and reconstructions of a sacrificial temple at Chotuna-Chornancap.)

Copper-Skirted Sacrificer

The new tomb discovery was made during excavations of a section of Chotuna-Chornancap that was used to perform crop-fertility rituals, according to the team.

The skeleton belonged to a male between 20 and 30 years old, and that the tomb was built sometime in the late 1200s or early 1300s A.wholesales mac Lip glossD., toward the end of the Sicán period, they say.

The cause of death of the tomb’s inhabitant is unknown, but based on the kind and quantity of artifacts buried with him—including ceramic pots, a skirt made of copper disks, and ornate copper knives—the team thinks he was a member of the Sicán elite and possibly performed ritual human offerings by order of a priest.

Wester speculated that a sacrificer was more than just a simple executioner. He would have been entrusted with other responsibilities related to the ceremonies surrounding the sacrifices, the archaeologist added.

Ceramic and metal objects were also found near the tomb—possibly left as offerings to the dead sacrificer, or they may be evidence of another tomb, said Wester, director of the Brüning National Archaeological Museum in the city of Lambayeque.

(Also see: “‘Spider God’ Temple Found in Peru.”)

Or Is a Knife Just a Knife?

Archaeologist and Sicán expert Izumi Shimada said the new tomb could shed light on what the Sicán culture was like just prior to its collapse.

Previous studies, including Shimada’s own work, have focused largely on the Sicán-Classic, or middle-Sicán, period, which lasted from A.D. 900 to 1100.

Wester’s work “fills a large void that we have,” said Shimada, of Southern Illinois University, who was not involved in the new discovery.

But Shimada said it’s still too early conclude that the person buried in the tomb played a role in Sicán human sacrifices.

Knives made from precious metals such as copper or even gold were status symbols for the Sicán elite, Shimada said. It was typical for members of the upper class to be buried with such blades.

“The presence of such a knife alone does not provide enough basis to say the person was a priest or that they performed sacrifices,” Shimada said.

“Unless the knife were analyzed and contained DNA or blood samples, you cannot really make that kind of logical connection.”

Live game to be shown on Facebook

An FA Cup qualifying round tie that would normally attract a crowd of about 90 people could boast a potential global audience of 700 million after an agreement was reached to broadcast Friday’s match on the social networking site Facebook.

The extra-preliminary round fixture between Ascot United and Wembley will become the first match ever to be broadcast live on the site after a deal was struck between the Football Association and the competition’s new main sponsors Budweiser.

Budweiser’s marketing director Iain Newell said the company, who earlier this year signed a three-year sponsorship deal with the FA worth 24 million pounds ($39.4 million), were intent on taking soccer’s oldest competition back to global pre-eminence, and at the same time, take it back to the fans.

“The FA Cup started 140 years ago this year and what better way to do demonstrate our commitment than by broadcasting the very first kick to a global audience via Facebook,” Newell told reporters.Anime supplier

FA Cup: Live game to be shown on Facebook
“This is the first time any match has been broadcast live on the social network which is great news for fans and clubs alike.”

The clubs, who play in suburban leagues at the lower end of the English soccer pyramid, will both be paid nominal broadcast fees for the match at the ground situated within the boundaries of the Ascot Racecourse and has a capacity of around 1,500.

Ascot chairman Mike Harrison told Reuters: “Naturally this is the biggest thing that has ever happened to the club.

“People talk of the FA Cup losing its gloss and that’s true if Manchester City or Bolton Wanderers put out their reserve team to play a match.”

FA Cup: Live game to be shown on Facebook
“But the whole town is absolutely buzzing. We run 67 teams in all age groups and have 800 players on our books and are one of the biggest grass roots clubs in the country.”

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“The FA Cup has lost none of its magic as far as we are concerned. Not only that but the wife of our manager Jeff Lamb is expecting their first child on Friday. It promises to be quite a day.”

An FA spokesman said other matches in the qualifying competition could also be shown on Facebook, but added: “There are no plans to do so yet, but it could happen up until the first round stage when the broadcasting contract between the FA, ITV and ESPN comes into operation.”

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Clarke nominated as round 20 Rising Star

Fremantle ruckman Zac Clarke’s best game for his club has been rewarded with the AFL’s round 20 nomination for the Rising Star award.

Clarke battled gamely for the Dockers last Friday night, recording 26 hitouts, 15 disposals and five tackles in his side’s clash with St Kilda.

Clarke, who was taken with pick number 37 in the 2008 draft and made his debut in 2009, has been a consistent performer since coming into the team in round 11 this year.

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“Zac’s nomination is a just reward for the way he has evolved during the past three years.

“He had a raw background in football, coming to the game relatively late after playing a lot of basketball as a junior. So he probably didn’t have that much football instinct or knowledge of how to go about the game.”