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TV Editor Tonights TV tips include psychological drama miniseries Penance, The Graham Norton Show that didn’t happen last Friday, as well as Greta Thunberg, Enda Kenny and Jamie Oliver . . . Pick of the Day Penance, 9.00pm, Virgin Media One Here’s a three-part psychological drama with Mrs Robinson/Oedipus issues, starring Julie Graham, Nico Mirallegro and Neil Morrissey. Grieving mother Rosalie Douglas (Graham) refuses to accept that her son Robs sudden death was an accident. Husband Luke (...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Hideki Matsuyama almost turned down his first chance to play the Masters. It was a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, disasters that killed thousands...

Good morning, it’s Monday, April 12, 2021. By the time you read this, Hideki Matsuyama will have returned the green jacket he won at August National Golf Club yesterday to its storied closet before heading back to Japan for a hero’s welcome. A reticent star even in normal circumstances, Matsuyama all but conceded afterward that the absence of a huge contingent of Japanese sports journalists (we’re still in COVID world, remember) probably helped him stay calm as he cruised to victory in th...

“It would be quite an honour,” said Matsuyama. “I’m not sure about my schedule. If the schedules worked out and I am in Japan when that happens and they ask me, what an honour that would be. “I’m really looking forward to the Olympic Games in Tokyo. If I am on the team – and it looks like I will be – I’ll do my best to represent my country and hopefully I’ll play well.” If this seems understated, it is just Matsuyama’s way. Intriguingl...

Andrew Da Luca, the accused, indecently assaulted the girl victim, then aged 4, when he was nearly 18, on 29 January 2007. His sentencing has been postponed to 19 May 2021 at the Krugersdorp Regional Court. Picture: Bhekikhaya Mabaso African News Agency (ANA). Fourteen-year wait for justice for child victim of sexual assault By Don Makatile Share Johannesburg - The adage “justice delayed is justice denied” is acquiring new meaning in an indecent sexual assault case involving the nephew of r...

Lee Elder Is An Honorary Starter At 2021 Masters The golf legend was a part of the Honorary Starters Ceremony, along with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player on the first tee. Published 11 hours ago Written by Paul Meara On Thursday (April 8), Lee Elder was honored by Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley among a cadre of patrons like Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player on the first tee at the Honorary Starters Ceremony at The Masters. Elder, the first Black man to play in the major golf tourn...

The applause started when Lee Elder’s golf cart began moving toward the first tee. It only got louder when he arrived and slowly made his way to his seat. And moments later, Masters Chairman Fred Ridley said words 46 years in the making. “Lee, it is my privilege to say, you have the honors,” Ridley said. That prompted the first roar of the 2021 Masters Tournament. Lee Elder gestures as he arrives for the ceremonial tee shots before the first round of the Masters golf tournament on Thurs...

Sports April 9, 2021 AUGUSTA, United States: Top-ranked defending champion Dustin Johnson teed off Thursday at the Masters looking to become only the fourth back-to-back winner at Augusta National as the battle for the green jacket began. Johnson, who also won the 2016 US Open, joined England’s Lee Westwood, trying to become the oldest Masters winner at age 47, and 2020 US Amateur winner Tyler Strafaci as 88 players faced a course playing firm and fast in practice rounds. “I’ve seen a fe...

Problem was, he was aiming at his father. Here’s a tale that will be part of McIlroy family lore for probably forever: Gerry McIlroy was standing near the right side of the green, watching his son play his second shot from off to the left of the fairway. The ball wound up hitting Gerry McIlroy in the left leg. “It was a perfect shot,” Rory McIlroy said. Well, kind of. He wound up making bogey, which was his third consecutive one at that point. “It was dead straight,” Ro...

Print this article Oh, how wonderful it is that the Masters is now underway! Not just underway, but underway in its accustomed springtime schedule, the time of year when the breathtaking Augusta National golf course is at its finest. The time of year, too, when the golf season’s natural flow perfectly reaches full flood force. The coronavirus can no longer restrain it, nor can ignorant cries for the major tournament to be moved outside the state of Georgia — as if the Masters would be the...