Tiger Woods has mystery blonde

Proving that he was indeed sorry to have deceived his wife, Tiger Woods, now comes with a mystery blonde. What is the man to do, now that the world has moved from the big scandal, it could go on, too.

But witnesses said the woman RadarOnline is a lookalike Elin. Well, if you can not be real, right?

"Tiger was on the golf course, the other day, when striking the ball. I was with a very pretty blonde who looked a lot like Elin. She was sitting in a golf cart while he was playing. They were talking and laughing and obviously having a good time. Tiger has often been. In particular, he likes Embers, a restaurant bar . "

Tiger and Elin have been living separately. Elin refuses to stay at home, and chooses to live in a rented house in place. The reports also said that the two are not talking about the terms and that they have hired the divorce lawyers to end their marriage officially

Maicon may follow Mourinho at Real

Inter Milan defender Maicon is happy to remain the champion of Europe, but has admitted he would be interested in following up Jose Mourinho to coach Real Madrid if he wants.

After leading Inter to European glory on Saturday, Mourinho seems certain to take over at the Bernabeu and Maicon, 28, is known to be a favorite of the Portuguese.

Maicon said: "To leave Inter? I have a contract and I respect that. If he (Mourinho) wants me at Real Madrid, then you should see if (the Inter president Massimo) Moratti agrees."

After Inter achieved a triple winner of the season with last night's 2-0 victory over Bayern Munich, Maicon is holding for now.

He said: "We made history. This is a great thing for us is wonderful. Congratulations and thanks to Mourinho is a great man and coach."

In eight seasons managing the club, including eight months a year off in 2007-08, Mourinho has led his club to win their domestic league six times and the League UEFA Champions twice.

Gritty Suns Get Off Mat and Tie Series

Kobe Bryant was asked about his emotions, aloof in case they were not readily apparent.

“Jovial,” Bryant said coldly. “Jovial.”

This was the account of a superstar in balmy distress, a arresting best collapsed by the peskiest of underdogs. It was absolutely a affable night at U.S. Airways Center, but the revelers were all cutting orange. Bryant wore four shades of ataxia afterwards his Los Angeles Lakers askance adjoin the hard-charging, rocket-fueled Phoenix Suns.

With 3-pointers sailing, their bank surging and their area aegis in abounding effect, the Suns agitated the Lakers, 115-106, and angry the Western Conference finals, 2-2.

There will be no accessible aisle aback to the alliance finals for Lakers, no amount how abounding noses they breach or how abounding times they dismissively absolve off their opponent. It is now a best-of-three series, with Bold 5 on Thursday in Los Angeles.

“It feels great,” said Amar’e Stoudemire, who led the Suns with 21 credibility and 8 rebounds. “Our aplomb is high. We feel like we got a adventitious to win the series.”

Credit the Suns’ improvement from 3-point range, and the aggressiveness of their bench. Channing Frye, Jared Dudley and Leandro Barbosa accumulated for nine 3-pointers and fueled an aboriginal fourth-quarter billow that put the bold away. Frye and Barbosa had 14 credibility apiece, and the Suns’ affluence outscored their Laker counterparts by 54-20.

“You know, we’re not the best accomplished team,” Steve Nash said, appropriately arena up the Suns’ underdog status, “but we’ve got abyss and we’ve got to accomplish that a basic of our success.”

Four canicule ago, admirers and commentators were already active over the achievability of addition Lakers-Celtics finals, with Los Angeles captivation a 2-0 advance and Boston captivation a 3-0 advance over Orlando in the East. Now, annihilation is certain, except Bryant’s fury.

He ripped his team’s aegis repeatedly, and justifiably, afterwards watching the Suns shoot 48.8 percent and booty over the bold with two huge abode — 41 credibility in the additional and 30 in the fourth.

“Our absorption needs to be on the arresting end, period,” he said.

Bryant led the Lakers with 38 points, 10 assists and 7 rebounds, and angry his career playoff aerial with six 3-pointers. Four teammates denticulate in bifold figures, and the Lakers attempt a able-bodied 49.5 percent from the field, admitting actuality occasionally abashed by the Suns’ area defense.

The Lakers focused heavily on advancing the area afterwards it befuddled them in Sunday’s Bold 3 defeat. For the best part, they ample it out. But it ability accept amount them anyway. Bryant said the Lakers were so focused on abhorrent action that they absent their arresting edge.

Maicon may follow Mourinho at Real

Inter Milan defender Maicon is happy to remain the champion of Europe, but has admitted he would be interested in following up Jose Mourinho to coach Real Madrid if he wants.

After leading Inter to European glory on Saturday, Mourinho seems certain to take over at the Bernabeu and Maicon, 28, is known to be a favorite of the Portuguese.

Maicon said: "To leave Inter? I have a contract and I respect that. If he (Mourinho) wants me at Real Madrid, then to be seen whether (the Inter president Massimo) Moratti agrees."

After Inter achieved a triple winner of the season with last night's 2-0 victory over Bayern Munich, Maicon is holding for now.

He said: "We made history. This is a great thing for us is wonderful. Congratulations and thanks to Mourinho is a great man and coach."

In eight seasons of club management, including eight months a year off in 2007-08, Mourinho has led his club to win their domestic league six times and the League of UEFA Champions twice.

Suns Beat Lakers in Game 3

Phoenix Suns just beat the Lakers 118-109 to cut the advantage in number of the defending champions by one game, 2-1. Game 4 will field advantage for the Suns to look at the best is yet-seven-game series.

Amare Stoudemire gives an amazing performance, silence their critics. He finished with 42 points, matching his playoff career high, and grabbed 11 rebounds to give the victory of the Suns for the first time at this end of the conference. Robin Lopez added 20 points.

"You can never doubt my decision," he said, "my goal, my dedication. That is one reason that I persevered through injuries and keep trying to improve every summer. My dedication to the game is in your highest point ever. "

Kobe Bryant gave an all-around performance, scoring 36 points, handing out 11 assists and nine rebounds to get a short rebound for a triple double statistics. Pau Gasol contributed 23 points.

Stoudemire out of the stadium with a bandage over a cut he suffered when his glasses were knocked his forehead against a unit from the field.

In Midst of Conference Finals, Lakers Try Not to Look Ahead to the Celtics

The question, after the Lakers had rolled to their second consecutive defenseless against the Suns, Lamar Odom wine left. But judging from his reaction that came from left field.

As Odom, surrounded by a crescent of reporters, turned to listen to - "At this point, which may prevent you from reaching the finals?" - Arched an eyebrow, gave a'm not - touch-that look and turned to his right to take another question.

These rescue operations will not be so easy in the coming days.

With three days of rest before the Western Conference series resumes in Phoenix, Boston and having a domain even more impressive in the Eastern Conference with two wins in Orlando, the Lakers will have to turn a deaf ear and blind eye to a subject to fill the void: the prospect of a Celtics-Lakers final.

The idea, at a distance at the start of the playoffs and delicious now, did not escape the minds of the inhabitants of the upper basin of the Staples Center, who spent the last 90 seconds of Game 2 singing, "We want Boston."

For Thursday, radio, Internet and even Los Angeles Times - whose question of the day was, how many games will it take for the Lakers and Celtics to finish their respective series? - They were watching the final, which starts on 1 June.

This would certainly put them in lock step with Commissioner David Stern, who for the Shaq-Kobe years joked probably his dream final duel was "the Lakers against the Lakers." Now, with LeBron James has gone, Stern be satisfied with the Lakers and Celtics.

Rays Flaunt Power and Top Yankees

Posada learned on Wednesday that he had suffered a fracture, an injury that the Yankees expect him to put aside for at least three weeks, but probably more. The Yankees, who lost to the Tampa Bay Rays, 10-6, have fallen two games in the standings in the AL East over the past two days, but more alarming is how quickly they are losing players.

In less than three weeks, who have lost three starters on opening day to the disabled list - Posada will join Curtis Granderson, and Nick Johnson - and one, Nick Swisher, is unavailable due to a sore left biceps .

"One hopes that not many of them at the same time," said Derek Jeter of the Yankees' injuries. "But you can not really feel sorry for yourself because the teams we're playing not to feel sorry for us."

Certainly not the Rays, who outhit, beat and beat the Yankees in an initial confrontation between the two best teams in baseball. The Rays (29-11) have the best record in the league in large part because of his aggressive, deep and solid starting pitching line. However, they have remained relatively healthy, too, while the Yankees do not have.

Posada, who had an MRI exam Wednesday, will land on the disabled list for the third consecutive year, with Francisco Cervelli to assume the starting duties. The Yankees will call another receiver, and although the outlook has proclaimed in Jesus Montero and Austin Romine, is more likely that a veteran like Chad Moeller will be promoted.

Posada was originally injured on Sunday when a foul ball hit the top of your foot. He said before Tuesday's game that the unrest had shifted to the bottom.

"This is something you have to put your weight on, and all these things, and transfer your weight from one side to another," said Posada, whose foot was in a walking boot. "This is something we have to care. I can not really do much."

The Yankees, already short-handed, loss of Marcus Thames when he came in the sixth inning with a sprained left ankle. Two nights after hitting a game-ending homer, Thames limped off after one, after having stepped on the bat as he ran toward first base.

For Hitless Wright, a Fling and a Miss

A division of claimed abashing and annoyance comatose to a low point Tuesday back Wright addled out in the top of the ninth inning with a agent at third abject and alone one out, and again fabricated a throwing absurdity on the aftermost comedy of the bold to accord Atlanta a 3-2 victory.

Wright went hitless in four at-bats and addled out three times to accord him a major-league-leading absolute of 55.

“It’s a tough, abject game,” he said in a black banausic afterward. “And it absolutely can accompany you to your knees sometimes.”

The bold was tied, 2-2, entering the ninth inning back Wright came to the bowl adjoin the above Mets afterpiece Billy Wagner. Luis Castillo was at third abject afterwards a cede butt by Gary Matthews Jr.

Before the game, Manager Jerry Manuel said the Mets’ aerial aggregate of strikeouts was attached his adeptness to do assertive things, like hit and run. But he still chose to use an out, with the achievement that Wright could at atomic put the brawl in play, or alike accord the Mets a advance with a fly ball.

Although his ability numbers are up — with eight home runs afterwards a division in which he hit a career-low 10 — Wright is arresting out at an alarming rate. Manuel said he did not apperceive the reason, but he accustomed he had apparent a growing addiction of opposing teams to angle Wright inside, generally on the aboriginal pitch, and again go abroad with breaking pitches after in at-bats to bandy him off balance.

Yanks Top Red Sox With 2 Ninth-Inning Homers

Marcus Thames has spent much of his career on the bench, and that's where he was, should have been, in the ninth inning Monday night. If Nick Swisher were healthy, had been playing right field. If Jorge Posada were able to pinch-hit, no doubt would have strolled to the plate with the score tied and two outs.

"It was my turn to get to the plate," said Thames.

When he got up there, Thames hit a two-run homer capped a four-run blast off closer Jonathan Papelbon of Boston and the Yankees finally edged the Red Sox in a 11-9 victory. Thames ran to first with joy, watching the left-field bleachers erupted after taking her first home run to win the game. Alex Rodriguez, whose two-run homer the previous inning tied the game, jumped out of the cave.

A shaving cream pie to face Thames, the ritual of the Yankees for a victory in his last at-bat, arrived shortly thereafter. He received his first pie in 2002, Alberto Castillo, a beating when his first pitch in the majors, which came from Randy Johnson, for a home run. This, he said, "is up there."

Not only because it was against the Red Sox, who were astonished how violent the game was weakened. "When you lose late, that kind of feel more," said Boston manager Terry Francona. Or because it perpetuates the superiority of the Yankees for Papelbon, who allowed three homers this season, all against the Yankees. Or because it was his first game-ending hit in Yankee Stadium, a rarity to be major league leading 15 in 2009.

Maybe this pie taste sweet because the Yankees after blowing a five-run first inning, won at all. In fact, they were playing with a list of 20 players on Monday. Joba Chamberlain and Mariano Rivera were available, and the Yankees surely refer to these consequences. So it was Sergio Mitre, which began Sunday. Swisher (left biceps soreness) and Posada (sore right foot) could not play, either.

Thames and capitalized on the circumstances, so too did Javier Vazquez, who inherited two runners stranded in the ninth inning, when he struck out Kevin Youkilis to keep the score at 9-7. After being skipped in the rotation once again, Vazquez become the winning pitcher.

Rivera Yields Grand Slam as Twins Win

Mariano Rivera had not given up a Grand Slam since 2002, had not allowed a walk with the bases loaded since 2005 and had not blown a save in the country since 2007. But within seconds on Sunday, all those streaks came to an end.

With two outs in the eighth inning and the Yankees leading by two runs, manager Joe Girardi called on Rivera Joba Chamberlain relieving with the bases loaded. Rivera entered the designated hitter Jim Thome to force in a run before Jason Kubel hit a grand slam over the right field fence to give Minnesota a three-run lead en route to a 6-3 victory.

The 46,628 fans at Yankee Stadium, many standing waiting for Rivera, who ends the episode, quickly sat down and was silent.

"He's human, is human showed today," Girardi said.

Rivera has allowed four Grand Slam tournaments in his career, one start in 1995, and Sunday was the first since Bill Selby of Cleveland hit a winning shot on July 14, 2002. Kubel's homer also ended streak of 51 consecutive saves Rivera at home, which had been tied with Eric Gagne, who set the mark with the Dodgers in Los Angeles from 2002-2004.

The Yankees put their first two batters in the ninth inning, but Jon Rauch struck out the next three to earn his 10th save.

As surprising as it was to see Rivera not as spectacular, it is rare that the return came from the Twins. One of the best teams in baseball, the Twins had lost 12 consecutive games against the Yankees, including a sweep of three games in a Division Series American League last year.

The game began to unravel for the Yankees when the Twins' Michael Cuddyer hit a soft line to first baseman Mark Teixeira with runners on first and second and two outs in the eighth inning. Teixeira misplayed the ball and went off his glove for an infield single that loaded the bases.

Replaced Chamberlain and Rivera issued a walk to Thome. It was the seventh time in his career that Rivera had walked Thome, more than any other player who has faced.

"For me it is walking on a career," Rivera said when asked what surprised him most about the entry. "You have control of it. I mean, nothing in a home that can happen, but walking a race is unacceptable."

Cleveland Ponders the Unthinkable

The Cleveland Cavaliers and a legion of fans panic are trying to come to grips with this disturbing and upsetting an uncertain future in the work of James, the city's biggest sports icon.

On the night of Tuesday, the Cavaliers were humiliated by the Boston Celtics, 120-88, and pushed to the brink of elimination from the playoffs. James was strangely passive and ultimately ineffective. Took 14 shots, missed 11, and into and out of the infringement. Sometimes it seemed oddly separate from the game and his teammates.

It was not what was expected of a most valuable player twice and star par excellence of the league - not with the Cavs' title hopes at stake and James's future hanging in the balance.

Terry Pluto, a columnist for The Plain Dealer of Cleveland, called James a "passive" and "emotionally distant. "In a poll on the newspaper's Web site, 53 percent of the fans of James blamed for the loss. (Coach Mike Brown was a distant second, with 23 percent of the vote.) The gap between James and his adoring public has never been greater.

The Celtics have a 3-2 lead in this series of second round and could close on Thursday night in Boston. Fans already thinking about the potential apocalypse: Cavs lost, James leaves, franchise dies.

"It's a panic," James said Wednesday after a film session and team practice. It casts a fresh confidence - indeed, an emotional distance - on all topics, from the state of his injured right elbow to the consequences of defeat in a series. He said it was "who I am", which was not necessary to show too much.

"I mean, do not know if I'm angry or not," said James. "I not going to show that I'm angry. For me, if I show a sense of panic, as you say, you guys follow my example.

Dallas Braden: Mouth That Roared

The Class A Stockton Ports opened a new ballpark in 2005, but the players still anchored at the old one. The day of the aboriginal practice, Daric Barton and Richie Robnett, both first-round abstract picks, formed into the old lot and alone off their cars: a Tahoe for Barton, a Range Rover with 24-inch rims for Robnett.

The next day, their new assistant Dallas Braden, a angular left-hander, approached them and asked if the cars did, indeed, accord to them. Warily, Barton said yes.

Well, it's a acceptable affair that I'm here, because a brace of my buddies came up to me allurement whose cars they were, because they capital to abduct them, Braden replied. I told them not to, because they were your guys.

And that, Barton said, was his aboriginal consequence of Braden: accomplish abiding you break on his acceptable side, or his buddies from Stockton may abduct your car.

Five years later, the arena confused to the Oakland Coliseum, about 70 afar west of Stockton. There were two outs in the basal of the ninth inning Sunday, and Braden, now casting for the ancestor club, the Athletics, had retired all 26 Tampa Bay hitters.

The calculation was 3-1 to Gabe Kapler, but Braden did not apprehend it; he anticipation his 2-1 fastball had abrupt the alfresco bend for a strike. The catcher, Landon Powell, alleged for a fastball, and Braden delivered one at 87 afar per hour. Kapler bounced to ambush Cliff Pennington, and at aboriginal base, Barton's apperception abounding with details.

The aboriginal affair was get to the bag, he said. The additional affair was accomplish abiding you bolt the ball. But my legs were shaking, my eyes were jumping all over the place, and I was nervous. I capital to bless afore I got the ball. It was boxy to just break there. Once I bent the brawl and captivated assimilate that sucker, afresh it was all anniversary and happiness.

Barton bent the brawl and answerable against Braden, wrapping him in an embrace. Powell and Pennington, aswell first-round picks, abutting the celebration. Braden had just authored the 19th absolute bold in above alliance history, an underdog defying the allowance again.

"His name will be alike with it for as continued as we live, as continued as our kids live, as continued as anybody around," said Todd Steverson, the Athletics first-base coach, who managed Braden in Stockton. "He's categorical his name in there, and you can't yield it abroad from him."

Mets Raise Their Voices but Go Quiet in the Big Moments

The ascendant angel of David Wright and the Mets on Monday night at Citi Field was not Wright’s ninth strikeout in nine after at-bats, alike admitting it happened with the bases loaded in the aboriginal inning.

And admitting two hits that helped lift Wright out of a mini-slump, the added allusive account was that of Wright, diving abrupt as he was angled off aboriginal abject on an infield pop-up to annihilate a abeyant assemblage in the sixth.

That comedy additionally contributed to a 3-2 accident to the Washington Nationals, who confused one bold advanced of the Mets into additional abode in the National League East.

It was amid several notable scenes in an black of annoyance for the Mets, who — admitting accepting 12 hits — absent their additional after game.

Another such moment came in the seventh, with Washington’s advance akin to 2-1. Two Mets were on abject with two outs back Jose Reyes took a alleged third strike.

Reyes anticipation the angle was low, and tossed some accessories to appearance his displeasure. The bowl adjudicator Laz Diaz ejected him for the display.

“I said to him, ‘That’s no strike,’ ” Reyes said. “I threw my bat. I threw my helmet. We bare a big hit. We had so abounding chances.”

Manager Jerry Manuel connected the debate, and he, too, was ejected.

There is a trend here. In Sunday’s 6-5 accident to San Francisco, Wright was ejected for arguing a alleged third bang in the ninth.

Despite the accent of accepting Wright and Reyes in the backward innings of abutting games, Manuel was forgiving. “It doesn’t bother me back a guy is amorous about what he does and is fighting,” Manuel said.

Starter John Maine (1-2) gave up two runs in six innings on back-to-back home runs by Adam Kennedy and Ryan Zimmerman in the third.

The Nationals added a run in the eighth, but the Mets cut the advance to 3-2 in the ninth on a home run by Angel Pagan with one out. After Luis Castillo addled out and Alex Cora singled, Jason Bay became the 11th Mets strikeout victim. The Nationals amateur amateur Luis Atilano addled out bristles in convalescent to 3-0.

Pettitte Ailment Overshadows Victory

Aside from the struggles of Javier Vazquez, little has afflicted the Yankees’ starting pitchers this season.

For abundant of Wednesday’s 7-5 achievement over the Baltimore Orioles, it appeared that Andy Pettitte was advancement his role in one of baseball’s best dependable rotations.

But Pettitte larboard the bold afore 43,425 admirers in Yankee Stadium afterwards alone 77 pitches. Afterwards the game, Manager Joe Girardi told reporters that Pettitte had been beatific to a bounded hospital afterwards accusatory of acerbity in his left, casting arm. Girardi said Pettitte would abide a alluring resonance imaging examination.

His bristles innings were abundant for achievement to advance his almanac to 4-0.

If Pettitte is injured, it will be the latest in a contempo amplitude of hurts that additionally has claimed, to capricious degrees, centermost fielder Curtis Granderson, catcher Jorge Posada and afterpiece Mariano Rivera.

The injuries, however, accept not afflicted the success of the arresting World Series champions, who swept the Orioles in three amateur and will comedy their abutting seven on the alley alpha on Friday night in Boston.

The victory, the Yankees’ fourth in succession, was their seventh in their aftermost eight amateur and larboard them a half-game abaft Tampa in the American League East. The Rays played at night at Seattle.

Pettitte larboard with a 6-1 advance afterwards bristles innings. He accustomed six hits and two walks in his beeline airing of the season. He is not appointed to angle afresh until abutting Tuesday night in Detroit; the bristles canicule of blow would be one added than is normal.

Sergio Mitre replaced Pettitte to alpha the sixth and larboard afterwards giving up a two-run home run to Ty Wigginton with one out in the eighth to cut the Yankees’ advance to 6-3. The Yankees tacked on an allowance run in the eighth to accomplish it 7-3.

The absence of Rivera was bright in the ninth inning back David Robertson, aggravating to assure a four-run lead, gave up after abandoned home runs to Matt Wieters and Nolan Reimold.

Joba Chamberlain had adored the antecedent two amateur and Girardi did not demand to use him three canicule in a row. So, Girardi brought in Boone Logan, who absolved Rhyne Hughes.

Canadiens’ Goalie May Not Be Familiar, but Theme Is

When it comes to the Canadiens, there is consistently a appreciative attitude of one affectionate or another, like that of a young, almost blooming goalie ascent from obscurity to advance them on a hasty run through the playoffs.

In 1970's, there was Ken Dryden; in 1986, there was Patrick Roy. Now there is Jaroslav Halak, whom the Canadiens accept ridden to an accidentally able alpha to the postseason.

Halak is abiding to get the better acclaim at the Bell Centre on Tuesday night, aback 22,500 admirers acceptable aback the Canadiens for their aboriginal home bold back a first-round agitated of the Washington Capitals, the N.H.L.’s No. 1 regular-season team, and a breach to accessible their second-round alternation adjoin the arresting Stanley Cup best Penguins.

“It’s abundant for us, and the army is activity to be on our ancillary from the aboriginal face-off,” a about chaste Halak said.

Despite actuality pulled from one bold in anniversary series, Halak, 24, has aggregate a .931 save percentage, the best amid goalies still playing. He chock-full 131 of 134 Washington shots in Games 5, 6 and 7 of the aperture round, and on Sunday he chock-full 38 of 39 Pittsburgh shots.

His saves adjoin the Penguins included one in which he chock-full a attempt with his face mask, bearing a blast aural throughout Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh. Did it hurt?

“No,” he said. “It’s like aback you get it in the glove. Same thing.”

For best of the aftermost two seasons, Halak aggregate the Canadiens’ starting job with Carey Price, but he was about Goalie 1B to Price’s 1A. He assuredly won the job aloof afore the Olympics (during which he led Slovakia to a hasty fourth-place finish), and bankrupt out the approved division with able assignment that propelled him to a .924 save percentage, the fourth best in the league.