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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U.S. Fed extends maturity of 400 bln dollars securities holdings

The U.S. Federal Reserve announced Wednesday the extension of average maturity of its 400- billion-dollar holdings of government securities to boost economy.

“To support a stronger economic recovery… The Committee intends to purchase, by the end of June 2012, 400 billion dollars of Treasury securities with remaining maturities of 6 years to 30 years,” the central bank said in a statement released after a two- day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), its interest rate policy making body.

Based on information collected since FOMC’s last meeting in August, “economic growth remains slow,” said the Fed.,Air Jordan Shoes,

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The Fed said that it continued to expect some pickup in the pace of recovery over coming quarters but anticipated that the unemployment rate will decline only gradually.

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The Committee, meanwhile, kept its key interest rate target at the historic low level of 0-0.25 percent. Besides, it decided to extend the maturity of its holdings of Treasury bonds. This action is considered as a new policy to spur the sluggish economy.

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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.

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“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.

Bolt leads Jamaica to 4×100 world record

In one whirlwind week, Usain Bolt turned the biggest disappointment of his career into another golden show capped with a world record that even he long believed was not within him this year.

After opening with a false start in 100 final last Sunday, Usain Bolt again produced the amazing in his closing race of the world championships — anchoring Jamaica to a world record in the 4×100-meter relay.

When the first three runners passed the baton, Bolt suddenly saw the unexpected become reality.

“I said, ‘Why not give my all.’ I kept saying: ‘I can do this. I can do this,’” Bolt said.

And when Bolt is convinced, the clock usually obliges.

One day after winning gold in the 200, Bolt was devastating down the home stretch of the relay and threw his yellow-clad chest across the line for a time of 37.04 seconds — the only world record in nine days of competition.

“This record was a great achievement,” Bolt said. “I finished the championships on a good note so I’m proud of myself.”

Fittingly, Jamaica’s yellow-green-and-black flag was the last one rising into the night over Daegu Stadium, and Bolt spread his giant arms wide to soak in the occasion with all his might.

There was no more of the performance anxiety that pushed him into a false start in the 100, only a sheer release of power as he coasted down the stretch for an overwhelming win over France and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

He came looking for the same three gold medals he won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2009 world championships but left with only two and a world record.

The United States was out of it because of a botched exchange, but no one could have gotten close to a Jamaican team anchored by Bolt.

Ahead of the race,Moncler men jackets Bolt was already slapping the “JAM” on his bib in pride, and in a season where he was far from his best, he came through with a world record at the end of a season when he only centered on titles and victories, not times.

He got all the help he needed from his three teammates — a lightning start from Nesta Carter and a good handover to Michael Frater before Jamaica’s golden duo was up. Yohan Blake, the 100 champion in Bolt’s absence, powered through the final bend, with Bolt already getting his giant stride going before he took the baton.

Even Carter had no idea the team could do it.

“We weren’t really going out to break the world record,” Carter said.

Without the injured Asafa Powell, Bolt anchored the team for the first time in a major competition since he took the world by storm at the Beijing Olympics.

Running with the determination of a record beater, he gritted his teeth over the final meters, crossed the line and threw the glittering purple baton high in the air once he realized their three-year-old record of 37.10 was gone.

Seconds later, the showman took over again. He started dancing to the delight of the 45,000 crowd at Daegu Stadium, which had to wait until the last second to finally see a world record.

In the blur of the best Bolt braggadocio, it was almost forgotten that Blake also left with two gold medals and a world record performance.

On a final day of seven finals, one silver medal also stood out.

Caster Semenya failed to defend her 800 title, faltering late down the finishing straight to allow Mariya Savinova of Russia get the gold. Silver, however, was better than many expected as the South African showed glimpses of her powerful running that made her the dominating athlete over the distance two years ago,Golf Ladies Clubs before a gender controversy sidelined her for a year.

“I achieved what I wanted, which was to get back to the podium,” the 20-year-old Semenya said.Cheap moncler vests “I don’t talk about the past. I’m still young and I have to focus on the future.”

Allyson Felix added another gold to bring her collection of titles to a women’s record eight over four championships. The American ran the second leg of the winning 4×100 relay, one day after getting gold in the 4×400, too.

With Christian Taylor winning the triple jump, it left the United States at the top of medal standings with 12 gold and 25 overall.

Tatyana Lysenko won the women’s hammer throw, putting Russia in second place of the standings with nine gold and 19 medals overall.

Britain got some good news ahead of next year’s London Olympics, with Mo Farah holding off Bernard Lagat of the United States to win the men’s 5,000. Farah also won silver in the 10,Louis Vuitton Handbags wholesale000 last weekend.

It was about the only middle and long distance race which went wrong for Kenya.

From the starting gun to Sunday’s last day, Kenya dominated. On Sunday morning, Abel Kirui led teammate Vincent Kipruto to yet another 1-2 finish in the men’s marathon.

The defending champion won by the biggest margin in championship history, and after finishing the race in 2:07:38, he had to wait 2:28 to welcome Kipruto in a sweaty embrace.

It left Kenya with seven gold and 17 medals overall for third place in the medal standings.

“This is history,” Kirui said. “It is also good (for) the country. It is good for my family. It is great.”

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.”

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World’s top two out to make USPGA child’s play

The world Nos 1 and 2 have come armed here to this USPGA Championship with their meticulously devised battle plans to win their first major. Luke Donald is going to whistle. And Lee Westwood is going to impersonate his 10-year-old son.Golf Shoes Wholesale

It’s all about not caring, was the Englishmen’s message, and as the humidity levels threatened the 100 degree mark, it was easy to lie back and be as soporific as a rabbit. Yet this was the mere heat of a Tuesday. On Thursday at a major, the competitive dial starts to wind its way ever higher and then, as Westwood said, “Trying not to care is like trying not to breathe”.

Westwood is determined to give it a whirl, however. As is Donald. “I’ll keep trying all the ways until I pick up one of these trophies,” he said. Not caring must be the final solution.

Certainly it seems that way for Westwood, who has come so close on so many occasions that he is the undisputed world champion of the “best never to win…” division. “I suppose that’s a compliment,” he said. But it isn’t one he’s particularly proud about. Westwood has watched four fellow members of International Sports Management win majors in the last 13 months and has inevitably wondered where he is going wrong. The answer? Stop the wondering.

Dr Bob Rotella, the celebrated mind guru who inspired Darren Clarke to Open glory last month, told him as much when Westwood finally ended his long boycott of shrinks a week last Sunday. Westwood had just suffered a putting-inspired missed cut at the Open after notching up a staggering five top-threes from his last seven majors and his patience had snapped. Lie down on the couch, Mr Westwood. The effect has been as instant as it will be noticeable.

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In practice straightforward, in competition damn difficult, particularly when you not only have the results sheet and ranking to demand you contend, but also the age to suggest time may be running out. While Clarke’s breakthrough as a 42-year-old showed what is possible after the “life begins at…” stage, the stats highlight the scale of the age barrier. Westwood’s time is now and the problem is, the headlines never let him forget it. England haven’t won a major in 15 years and, whether Westwood likes it or not, England expects.

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