Darren Clarke the British Open champion is disappointed about his low performance in the recent Irish Open. He was in danger of missing the cuts after falling 10 shots behind Jeev Milka Singh who was leading. This was his first tournament after making his first major win at the Royal St. George two weeks back. Over the second round he dropped four shots on his way to 3-over 74. He was left with 1 over the half way point. Clarke said that he was totally disappointed with the score and he is looking forward for a good game in the Bridgestone Invitational World Golf Championship that is coming up. He said that he was trying hard in the game but nothing was happening, he added that more than the physical fatigue the mental fatigue has set in after this game. Clarke’s fate was fully sealed by his Bogey at the par-4 last hole. He knew that his cut was under 1 and wanted to make his chip but couldn’t control it properly.
Singh was the leader of the game though there were players like Graeme Mc Dowell and Rory Mcllroy, the past and present U.S open champions present there.  He said that he will take 1-under on that day. He struggled off the tee but was able to make par- saving putts. The Indian made his career best on the European tour with a round of 70 under 9. Singh was able to manage the two-shot lead he made with Simon Wake Field of England and Raphael Jacquelin of France, the closest contenders of him at the club house. Wake field who birdied the two out of three last holes reached 7-under with Jacquelin. It was Jacqueline who won the Sicilian Open in March this year. Raphael was also able to get eighth position at the British open. The northern Irish amateur Paul Cutler who is of 22 years of age made 67 to add to his first-round of 69. Another player who was resent at the club house along with Clarke and Singh is Ireland’s Damien Mc Grane. Harrington, winner of the 2007 tournament made two bogeys and another double-bogey. With these bogeys he lost the chance of making the cut in the tournament. Mcllroy who was ranked fourth was able to get 70 in the first round. Graeme Mc Dowell also from Ireland was able to card 72 to his credit.

The British boxing sensation, Amir Khan, is of the belief that a mega fight with arch rival Mayweather is on the cards in the next 12 months and he has chosen Wembley stadium as the venue for this prestigious bout of the Titans in boxing. The WBA and IBF lightweight champion has recently knocked out Zab Judah in a boxing battle and is planning on his next career move by arranging a fight with Mayweather in a major battle at Wembley. His next challenge though will be a fit against Lamont Peterson for the IBF belt and this will be followed by a tussle with the winners of the clash between Erik Morales and Jorge barrios in September.
Amir Khan’s ultimate goal is to fight against the champion American superstar boxer Mayweather in front of a capacity Wembley audience.  Khan has said that every young champion will be vying to fight against the best player in the world and he feels that Floyd Mayweather is one of the best boxers along with Manny Pacguiao. He says that it is not practical for him to fight against Manny as both of them train together are the best mates in the boxing circles. But Floyd is in a different zone altogether and hence he is hopeful of fighting against him in the near future. If this ambition of Khan turns into a reality, Wembley stadium will be witnessing one of the greatest fights in the history of boxing.
Khan is sure that the fans will be coming in large numbers to witness this intriguing contest and is wanting to make an impact in one more fight in the light-welterweight category before moving on to  the welterweight category. He says that many champion fighters are there in the welterweight category and he is interested in locking horns with these champion boxers.
He feels that it is vey hard for him to get fighters to box against him in the 140 pounds category. So, he has decided to move on to the 147 pound category after a final bout in the light-welterweight category. Amir feels that he has got the best training staff with him to advice him on his various moves. Khan is pretty confident that the showdown with Mayweather at Wembley Stadium will work out in the near future and fans at Wembley will be witness to one of the greatest boxing duels in the recent times.

The owners and players of NBA are trying to develop a collective bargaining agreement. The talks for the same are expected to be resumed on Monday. It has been a month since the lock out stared and both owners and players want to settle the differences as early as possible. It was on June 30th the old collective bargaining agreement was expired. Since July 1 the representatives from different sides have met and had discussions for several times. It is expected that top officials like Commissioner David Stern, President of Lakers Derek Fisher, and union executive director Billy Hunter will also attend the meeting on Monday.
The lock out started in august and NBA fans fear that due to work –stoppage, the regular season games will be affected. This is the second lockout in the history of the NBA league. Despite the lock out the NBA released the complete play schedule for 20110-12 on last Tuesday. The schedule will begin on November 1st. usually the schedule were released in late summer but this time as there were no transactions and with the league activities on hold due to lock out there was no reason for NBA to  wait for announcing the schedule.
There is a possibility that the NBA will lose games this season also because the economic issues regarding the changes in the division of revenue and changes in the salary cap are to be sorted out. In 1998 summer, due to the first lockout in NBA league, the season was started only in February and the sides got only 50 games to play that season. the NBA says that it is difficult to make profit under the old collective bargaining system with 57 % of the basket ball related income went to the players. In last season NBA claims that it lost about $300 million.
Players agrees to reduce the share to 54.3 % but according the last proposal of the owner’s in the new collective bargaining agreement the share is only 40% and the players are not happy with that. If the sides cannot decide on their differences the schedule will be at risk. The deal is expected to be completed soon so that the season will be saved. In that case the NBA champion Dallas Maverick will open the season with the Chicago Bulls and will have their final rematch on Christmas day.