Tag Heuer stands by Tiger Woods

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk • Golfer's private life 'not our business', says watch manufacturer • Sponsor's seven-year association with Woods to continue "He's the best in his domain. We respect his performance in the sport." Gillette, another major sponsor, has announced that it is to phase the golfer out of its promotional material, at least temporarily. Nike and the computer game company Electronic Arts both continue to support Woods.

Breaking the Sound Barrier - 1000 mph in a Car!

The car, Bloodhound, is designed to travel faster than 1,000mph (1,600km/h) " far in excess of the speed of sound and the equivalent of crossing four football pitches every second. The present record of 763mph was set in 1997 by the RAF pilot Andy Green, who will also drive Bloodhound.

The time trial is scheduled for 2011 and will take place in a desert in the Northern Cape of South Africa.

clipped from www.timesonline.co.uk Andy Green: Behind the wheel I start off by checking everything is running correctly. the computer, the jet engine. I make sure the fuel is flowing smoothly. As soon as I let the brakes off, I accelerate to 100-150mph, my speed increasing by about 30mph every second. I put the clutch in and the V12 engine starts to pump hydrogen peroxide into the rocket engine. At about 350mph, I squeeze down the trigger to start the ignition on the rocket, which boosts my acceleration to about 50mph every second — 400mph, 450mph, 500mph. As I pass through the sound barrier I feel a change in the handling but I won’t hear the sonic boom because, at 800mph, I’m travelling faster than sound. As I approach 1,000mph I shut down the engines one by one, before a rapid deceleration. At 600mph I let out my first parachute and at 400mph my second. The braking force is about three times that of gravity. I come to a rest after ten miles. The run has taken a total of 100 seconds.

Caparo T1 Shatters Top Gear Record

clipped from www.topspeed.com The world’s fastest ever track-biased, ultra-performance road car, the Caparo T1, has smashed the lap record on BBC TV’s popular motoring programme Top Gear. The two-seater sports car, which utilises lightweight materials and technology more commonly found in Formula One cars, set a new lap record time of 1:10.6; an astonishing seven seconds quicker than a modified Koenigsegg CCX which held the previous record

Dog Learns to Read

clipped from www.ananova.com Willow plays dead when she sees the word 'bang', stretches a paw in the air when she sees 'wave' and gets up on her back feet to beg when she sees the words 'sit up'. "She's an unbelievably quick learner," said Ms Rosenberg, who has trained other dogs to appear in TV adverts and pose on photo shoots. "She can do 250 different things and I used to joke that I would teach her how to pour me a martini. Then for a bet I told a friend I would teach her to read. He promised me a free trip to Mexico if I could do it. "It took her just six weeks to recognise words and respond to them. And it isn't just my handwriting she understands. My friend printed the words Willow learned off the computer and she reacted to them. "Well I won the bet and Willow came with me to Mexico." Willow has her own pet passport and regularly flies transatlantic to visit Ms Rosenberg's husband Gareth Howells, in Guildford, Surrey.

Hot Dog Eating Record Broken

clipped from www.ananova.com Hot dog record broken The world record for competitive hot dog eating has been broken in the US. Joey 'Jaws' Chestnut ate 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes at the annual contest at Coney Island in New York, breaking his old record of 66. His main rival, Japan's six-time winner Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi, ate 64 and a half, reports the Daily Telegraph. It's thought the two men ate around 19,000 calories between them. The first such hot dog eating contest was held in 1916, when the winner put away only 13 frankfurters. The two men have gone gut-to-gut for almost a decade at the annual competition which was this year broadcast live on sports channel ESPN in the US. Mr Chestnut, who won his third straight title in a row, takes home $20,000 (£12,250) in prize money and the coveted Mustard Belt. The 25-year-old Californian's other world records include eating 5kg of macaroni and cheese in seven minutes, and 188 jalapeno peppers in 10 minutes.

VW Golf GTI Cars and Parts

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