Leyton Hewitt: "Forget me, Scott!"

Tennis - The former tennis pro Scott Draper's decision not to take on a full-time coaching position with Leyton Hewitt paid dividends yesterday when he won his first professional golf tournament. "Strewth," declared Draper after his nail-biting win, "That was a close call. If I'd listened to the wife then right now I'd be cleaning sweat off Leyton's racquets like a total loser rather than standing here with a golf trophy in one hand and a load of cash in the other. It just goes to prove you should never let your better half make any decisions for you because they'll always be wrong."

Draper, a former Davis Cup player for Australia and mixed doubles champion in the 2005 Australian Open, shot a seven under 65 to win the New South Wales PGA Championship by one stroke.

isporty wants to know "what's the best decision you've ever made regarding your sport? Did you make an unlikely come back against all the odds? Or did you simply decide to stop being a lazy, good for nothing lounge lizard and started cycling instead? Comments below please

Swede Feeds Need eventually

Golf - After 200 years in the golfing wilderness, Swedish niblick-wielder Peter Hedblom has finally shaken off his hoodoo by winning a golf tournament. The 37 year old Swede has not won on the European Tour since the Moroccan Open in 1996 and that hardly counts, does it. His four under par 68 at the Saujana Golf & Country Club yesterday saw him hold off a late charge from France's Jean-Francois Lucquin, to win the Maybank Malaysian Open. "When you haven't won for a long time you question whether you're really going to win again," sobbed Hedblom as he spoke to his really good looking golfer sister Marlene on the phone. "You wake up in the middle of the night, night after night pounding your pillow and shouting 'Why? Why? Why?', before going downstairs, snapping all your golf clubs in half and stuffing your face with ice cream. Then you pass out on your sofa, wake up with sick all over your shirt, pull your socks up and go again. It's just a matter of grinding it out. I tried to play my own game and not watch the leaderboard and then pray that Lucquin would bottle it at the last. When his par putt slipped past the hole on 18 I knew that was it, I felt like screaming "F%~#ing yes, you f%~#ing little f%~#ing beauty!!"

Isporty wants to know about your own sporting hoodoos and how you overcame them, or what you tried in order to overcome them. Post your comments below please.

ZZ's for sale!

One of the greatest footballer's of all time Zinedine Zidane gets his own movie this week in "Zidane - A 21st Century Portrait". The DVD contains a interview with ZZ and follows Zidane through a whole match for Real Madrid against Villareal. You don't need me to tell you how it all ends! £11.99 delivered at Play.com

Fan Fights!

Nuts Magazine (Feb 07) - Ever started singing "You're not very good!" at a sports match? Maybe you will think twice when you see this week's Nuts magazine. In Nuts Sport World they look into the crazy world of players attacking fans! Including Cantona's kung-fu classic, Baseball bruisers and NBA nutters.

Isporty wants to know if you have ever got involved or witnessed a punch up between the spectators and players at a sports match. Leave your comments below.

Don't Miss TV...!

The Verdict - After a few forum posts about Stan Collymore, catch him on BBC 2 tonight at 9pm for the second day of 'The Verdict'. If you missed last night's episode click on the Verdict for all the latest news and updates.

Golf

Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and also is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. It is defined in the Rules of Golf as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."

Golf is said to have originated in the Netherlands, but has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. Golf, in essentially the form we know today, has been played on Scotland's Musselburgh Links (today the world's oldest golf course) since 1672, while earlier versions of the game had been played in the British Isles and the low-countries of Northern Europe for several centuries before that. Although often viewed as an upperclass pastime, golf is an increasingly popular sport across all sections of society.

Music and Golf Special

International Golf Magazine (Mar 07) - The latest edition of International Golf Magazine is aiming a feature at all you music fans! Including music legend's the rolling stones and the beatles. Also in March's edition there is an exculsive with Nick Faldo and a world class instruction article to help you for the new season!

Welcome back Wilko

Rugby - The return of Jonny Wilkinson has had a spectacular affect on England's fortunes on and off the field and helped apply a temporary band aid over the cataclysmic gaping wound that was England's dismal performance against Italy. Jonny Fever ensured that England's clash with Italy drew an 82,000 sell-out crowd, who went home confused and possibly dehydrated after a string performance in the bar but a lacklustre performance from the team in which the Italians looked like they knew what they were doing for once. This sudden change in the Italian approach caused complete chaos in the English ranks as the Italians moved the ball about the place like Italian versions of Spanish matadors. But that's not important. What is important is that, since new boss Brian Ashton recalled Wilkinson to his squad, Twickenham merchandising sales have jumped by 33 per cent on the same period last year. Twickenham chiefs were so worried they would not be able to sell this afternoon's game that they took the rare step of releasing tickets on to the open market, many tickets coming with the added bonus of a free instant barbecue for the traditional pre-match carpark barbecue feast. England had been booed off Twickenham in two of their previous three matches and RFU chief executive Francis Baron admitted the team's woeful form would cost the Union millions. Within the space of a fortnight the mood has completely changed. Last week's Calcutta Cup clash grossed £7million - the biggest payday in Six Nation history. Nice.

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Bouncing Czech

Tennis - Volatile American Andy Roddick has been at it again, this time driving an unstoppable first serve straight at Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus. The incident, which has sparked a fierce diplomatic row, occured in a Davis Cup match yesterday. The President, who reportedly has a 'history' with Roddick, opted to sit in the front row of the tie between the Czech Republic and the United States in Ostrava, in order to maximise the effect of his menacing stare which he intended to direct at Roddick in order to put him off. But he was stunned when Roddick hit a serve which bounced up and hit him true and square smack bang in the middle of his noggin on his way to a 6-4 4-6 6-2 6-3 win over Ivo Minar. "I didn't notice that," claimed Roddick sheepishly after the match. "It was nothing personal." Klaus responded by claiming that Roddick knew exactly what he was doing: "Mr Roddick knows he is being economical with the truth. I simply want to watch the tennis and he wastes no time in trying to kill me. It is unnacceptable. And to see his coach Jimmy Connors sniggering like that is unprofessional. You have not heard the last of this mater." Stay tuned for further developments as Roddick prepares for his second match tomorrow.

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ENGLAND 23,435 AUSTRALIA 0

Cricket - Who cares about the poxy Ashes? No one important, that's who. England yesterday won the universally acclaimed 'most important trophy in the world ever in any sport'. At cricket. They did it by beating the Australians for the third time in a row, not bad going from a team who seemed hell-bent on creating a new world record for straight defeats at the hands of the same opposition. Delighted skipper Burly Stonemason lifted the Commonwealth Bank trophy after a rain-affected 34-run triumph. Hugging the super-size silverware, Burly insisted the team wants coach Dennis Tench to stay. Burly said: "Dennis took a lot of knocks but kept backing us. It is great to repay his faith and he can take as much joy out of this as the lads." After two and a half months of disaster and humiliation, England produced one of their greatest-ever turnarounds to end the tour with four straight victories. A tearful Burly added: "One person we ought to thank is Dennis. He has been our coach for a long time and he's taken the side forward. You've seen the improvement since he's been with us. Every player who's played under Dennis has learned something and improved his game. The coach comes into press conferences when we've lost and he always comes down the pub and assures us we're his special mates and that we're definitely, definitely going round to his house for Christmas dinner. Christmas can be a very lonely time and it's only fair that Dennis gets his round in."

isporty wants to know who's coming round your house for Christmas dinner.., oh, no, apparently we don't want to know that. What we want to know is ... what's the greatest ever comeback that you or your team has ever been part of. Post your comments below and if you've got any video footage please feel free to upload it as there's nothing I like more than settling down in front of the computer with a nice cup of tea and watching your attempts at greatness.

One (Un)Wise Berk

Football - How clever is Dennis Wise? Not very. Not very clever at all. "I wonder how I can make things at this football club 200 times worse?" thought the Leeds United manager, as his rock bottom Championship side prepared for the visit of Crystal Palace. "I know," he continued, "I'll announce to the media that one of our players has leaked the team sheet to our opponents Crystal Palace but not substantiate this announcement in any way shape or form. It seems that Wise has been reading too many George W Bush pamphlets on 'How to make rash statements about stuff I can't control'. Since Wise's statement, every Leeds fan in the country has conducted their own kangaroo court (me included, I'm ashamed to say) into who the likely culprit is. So you exclude all the players who were either on the pitch or on the bench for Saturday's game (Wise had apparently told the player to clear off around lunchtime). After that, it could literally be anyone who's either injured or suspended - probably about seven players. So seven players are in the frame, only one of them 'allegedly' did something wrong but all are being tried via the frantic guesswork of fans communicating via text and email etc. Surely Wise is in serious trouble here. Not only does he face a dressing room revolt from his players, all of whom should be outraged that Wise feels he can simply say what he wants and to hell with the almighty shit-storm this will create for other people, but he also faces the very probable scenario of a hugely embarrassing climbdown if he cannot substantiate the wrongdoing of this so called guilty culprit.

"The player in question will not be playing for this football club again," announced Wise with reckless abandon. "It is as simple as that. I cannot have things like this. I found this out today (Saturday) at about one o'clock, 12 o'clock maybe. The player also said a couple of other things that were not acceptable. This is what sometimes you are dealing with. It hurts and it hurts a lot but I spoke to the players about it before the match and they responded for me which I am delighted about. I do not want to go into it any more but I felt it was only right that I say something."

In other words, you lost your temper and blabbered out a lot of allegations about an unnamed player that brings several other Leeds United players into the frame. Hmmm, way to lose the dressing room, fella.

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