Hints and tips:
...Current table toppers Botafogo are owned by Eagle Football Holdings, the multiclub group controlled by tech entrepreneur John Textor, while Vasco da Gama is owned by Miami-based fund 777 Partners....
...Andrew Stenson’s sweet tenor nicely projects Candide’s naïveté, and Kathryn Lewek’s Cunegonde makes up in ebullience and spot-on high notes what she lacks in vocal purity....
...They are all in the best traditions of sports broadcasting, like Vin Scully, John Miller and Jim Palmer are to baseball and John Arlott, Johnners, Bloers, even Geoffrey Boycott were and are to cricket....
...john.lloyd@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/lloyd...
...As a result, Azinger’s four “picks” contain the winner of only one tournament this year and that was the FBR Championship title in Arizona claimed by the big-hitting John “JB” Holmes way back in February...
...The names of Luke Donald, Justin Rose and Paul Casey come to mind as do the Swedes Henrik Stenson and Niclas Fasth....
...■GOLF Henrik Stenson’s Dubai Desert Classic victory on Sunday has taken him into the world’s top 10 for the first time....
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