The second World Golf Championship is upon us already so we’ve asked “Mystical” Mike Norman to look into his crystal ball and predict which Europeans and Americans will go well this week. Related posts: The Madrid Masters Betting: Spanish duo can go well on home soil It’s not just football and reality TV that “Mystical”..

With 36 Festival wins under his belt Nicky Henderson knows how to train one for Cheltenham, so which of his current yard can do the business at this year’s Festival? Mike Vince asked him Related posts: Cheltenham Trainer Interview: Paul Nicholls Mike Vince travelled to Ditcheat to talk with the…

There’s nothing to choose between Big Fella Thanks and Duc De Regniere on chasing form to date, but the latter was a smart hurdler and should be able to improve on his three efforts to date over fences. In addition, this trip will be on the sharp side for Big Fella Thanks, though he should still take second from some inferior rivals

Was looking back over the blog this week — the whole sucker, I mean, going all of the way back to April 2006 — and thinking about what would do for some sort of suitably momentous, whiz-bang-type message to deliver here in post no. 1000. It’s a big, intimidating number

Wasn’t able to participate in that PokerStars record-breaking tournament yesterday, as I was busy during the mid-afternoon and couldn’t be there for the start. Looks like I was one of the few online poker players who didn’t, as the $1 no-limit hold’em tourney attracted 149,196 runners