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Tiger Woods marked his return to the PGA Tour with a one-over-par 72 at the Genesis Invitational on Thursday. The 15-time major champion, who underwent ankle surgery in April 2023, was playing his first round of an official PGA Tour event since the Masters 10 months ago. Woods was tied for 55th when his round concluded, with only the top 50 players making the cut after 36 holes. He is eight strokes behind leader Patrick Cantlay on seven-under 64. Latest Genesis Invitational leaderboard Former world number one Woods carded five birdies and five bogeys, ending the first day in California with a bogey after firing a surprise shank far to the right on the 18th fairway. "Oh, definitely, I shanked it," said Woods. "My back was spasming the last couple holes and it was locking up," he explained, adding he would receive treatment to be ready for the second round. "But that's just part of the deal, and I look forward to the challenge." Woods' last win on the PGA Tour was at the 2019 Zozo Championship in Japan, which saw him equal Sam Snead's record of 82 Tour victories. His schedule has been limited since injuring his leg in a car crash in 2021. READ MORE

Sir Jim Ratcliffe's deal to buy a 25% stake in Manchester United has been approved by the Football Association and Premier League. The British billionaire's purchase is worth about $1.3bn (£1.03bn). Owners the Glazer family will retain a majority stake in the club but Ratcliffe's Ineos Group will take control of football operations. The sale cannot be completed until after the share offer is closed, which is Friday night in the United States. Premier League approval is contingent on the deal being completed. "The Premier League now awaits confirmation of the transaction's completion," the league said in a statement, while confirming Ratcliffe, 71, has also signed its owners' charter. The deal is the first to be agreed under the Premier League's updated owners' and directors' test, which was approved by member clubs in March 2023 and includes a review by an independent oversight panel. "The FA can confirm that the Barclays Women's Super League and Barclays Women's Championship Board have approved the acquisition by Sir Jim Ratcliffe of Manchester United Football Club in relation to its Manchester United Women's entity," the FA said in a statement. Who is Sir Jim Ratcliffe? What will 'marginal gains' guru Brailsford bring to Man Utd? Ratcliffe's deal was agreed on Christmas Eve and also includes $300m (£236m) for future investment in the club's Old Trafford stadium. The businessman has agreed to buy 25% of the club's class B shares, largely held by the Glazer family, who own 69% of the club, and contain almost all the voting rights, and up to 25% of its class A shares, which are listed on the New York Stock Market. The shares are worth $33 each. An update to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday evening confirmed that the deadline for holders of class A shares to tender them for sale has been extended from Wednesday until 23:59 EST on Friday. So far 36.7% of class A shares have been tendered, already above the 25% Ratcliffe has agreed to buy. Taking on sporting control at the club means Ineos will oversee the men's and women's football operations and academies. They will also get two seats on the Manchester United PLC and Manchester United Football Club boards. READ MORE

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India v England, Third Test Venue: Rajkot Dates: 15-19 February Time: 04:00 GMT Coverage: Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app, with daily Test Match Special podcasts on BBC Sounds Ben Stokes is right again. He doesn't get much wrong these days. The England skipper will win his 100th cap in the third Test against India in Rajkot starting on Thursday. He says it is just a number, and it is, albeit another number in a career of astonishing numbers. This is the man with more Test runs for England than Denis Compton, Michael Vaughan and Jack Hobbs. More wickets than Jim Laker, Sydney Barnes and Angus Fraser. If his knee allows him to take three more wickets, he will become only the third man to do the double of 6,000 Test runs and 200 wickets. The other two? Jacques Kallis and Sir Garfield Sobers. Mount Rushmore cricketers. Stokes' 128 sixes in Test cricket already has daylight between him and anyone else to have played the game. By the time he is done, he could have a record that will never be broken. Wood back as England pick two seamers for third Test Reaching 100 Tests 'just a number', says Stokes But looking at Stokes through the prism of numbers alone is like saying the Rolling Stones just play musical instruments. There have been better cricketers to play for England, plenty with stronger statistics, others more famous and maybe a handful who were more influential. There are hardly any who have had the presence of Stokes, with the ability to carry an entire nation on his back, not just as an all-rounder but as a captain too. Red hair, tattoos and puffed-out chest, poking the eye of fear and giving the impression that everything will be OK, no matter the odds. The signs were there, right at the start, when Stokes came into a once-great England team that were falling apart. The 2013-14 Ashes tour was an awful episode in the history of English cricket, but it gave birth to the legend of Stokes, who made his debut in the second Test in Adelaide. FULL STORY

Good to see someone with such a positive outlook and open mind and not pre-judging people and places. Are you not kind of in one right here ?

Wolves might sell Pedro Neto this summer to ensure they do not breach profit and sustainability rules (PSR) and give manager Gary O'Neil funds to spend elsewhere, with Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester United admirers of the 23-year-old Portugal winger. (Sun) Manchester United expect to reach an agreement with Newcastle to appoint Dan Ashworth as director of football early next week. (Mail) Newcastle would be due more than £6m in compensation if Ashworth moves to the Red Devils. (The i - subscription required) Manchester United are eyeing a move for Crystal Palace's 22-year-old French winger Michael Olise, 22. (90min) The Red Devils also want to sign Brazil defender Gleison Bremer, 26, from Juventus in the summer. (Calciomercato - in Italian) Barcelona have made 22-year-old Everton and Belgium midfielder Amadou Onana their main summer transfer target. (Fichajes - in Spanish) Former Brighton and Chelsea boss Graham Potter is a candidate to replace David Moyes if he leaves West Ham at the end of the season. (Telegraph - subscription required) West Ham and Brazil midfielder Lucas Paqueta, 26, is being tracked by Manchester City. (Football Insider) Manchester City and Liverpool are among the clubs interested in Shakhtar Donetsk and Ukraine attacking midfielder Georgiy Sudakov, 21. (Calciomercato - in Italian) Barcelona are monitoring England winger Lauren Hemp amid uncertainty around her future, with her contract at Manchester City due to expire this summer. (Standard) Can you name the Premier League player? Try naming this current or former footballer from these clues Barcelona have placed an £85m price tag on 26-year-old Netherlands midfielder Frenkie de Jong, who continues to be linked with Manchester United and Chelsea. (Mundo Deportivo - in Spanish) Crystal Palace have lined up former Eintracht Frankfurt manager Oliver Glasner to take over if they sack Roy Hodgson. (Guardian) Everton and Crystal Palace are monitoring Marseille's 23-year-old Senegal striker Iliman Ndiaye. (La Provence via Sport Witness) Chelsea have offered a contract to Lyon head coach Sonia Bompastor to replace Emma Hayes, who is leaving at the end of the season to manage the United States women's national team. (Athletic - subscription required) FULL STORY

Lewis Hamilton says it would be "the greatest moment" if he could help Mercedes return to the top in his final season with the team. The seven-time champion will move to Ferrari in 2025, ending the most successful relationship between a driver and team in F1 history. As Mercedes launched their new car, Hamilton said: "I feel the most motivated and focused I've ever been. "I never thought at this point in my life I'd have hunger like I do now." Hamilton's last title was in 2020, and he remains determined to right what he perceives as the injustice of Abu Dhabi 2021, when he lost out on a record-beating eighth drivers' title after the race director failed to implement the rules correctly. The 39-year-old, who joined Mercedes in 2013, said: "To finish on a high with the team would be a dream. We have gone through a whole heap together. It would be the greatest moment to be able to help them get back to the top." Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff says their new car, which ran for the first time for a few laps at a wet Silverstone on Wednesday, is a "complete relaunch" as they try to recover from two difficult years. The eight-time champions have lagged behind Red Bull for the past two seasons under new rules introduced in 2022. Wolff said: "The car is very different, not only on the aerodynamic surfaces but mainly underneath. "There are many mechanical changes. We hope it will transfer into more predictability and a car the drivers can really push." The new W15 has abandoned Mercedes' now-discredited so-called 'zero-sidepod' philosophy in favour of the aerodynamic direction pursued by Red Bull. This features heavily undercut sidepods and a surface 'ramp' sloping the bodywork downwards towards the rear, all aimed at best manipulating airflow around the car and maximising the downforce created by the underbody 'venturi' tunnels. Wolff said the team were keeping their expectations in check, hoping to lead the group compromising Ferrari, McLaren and Aston Martin, their main rivals last year, and push on towards catching Red Bull. He said: "Most important is that you look inward - what is it we got wrong, why did the virtual world not correlate with the real world? "And we found some clues and tried to eliminate some variables. We know it is difficult and a big mountain to climb because if a team is far ahead like Red Bull was last year it is not easy. "But we have a superb driver combination, hopefully a fast car and I think there are some very good ingredients to be back at the front again." Hamilton's team-mate George Russell said: "The last two years have been challenging for the team. After eight consecutive [constructors'] championships, finishing third in 2022 was a bit of surprise. "We didn't understand the car, the problems we were tripping over took a lot of time to understand and resolve. "We have learned so much as a team, developed our tools, we have much better correlation from our simulations and wind tunnel to the track, which is vital for the years to come. "There is a fire within. Everyone is so excited and motivated. I've got faith it will come." In addition to an overall lack of performance, the Mercedes drivers complained of a lack of predictability and a lack of rear grip in the team's two previous cars. Wolff said: "The target is to do a good job, look inwards, try to have the car on track that is predictable and has lots of downforce and do a solid job and deliver on our targets, to give a car to Lewis and George that they enjoy driving and not as difficult as the previous years. And hopefully in Bahrain in a week's time, we will have more good feedback than bad." Pre-season testing is in Bahrain on 21-23 February, followed by the opening race of the season in the Gulf state on 2 March. FULL STORY

India batter KL Rahul has been ruled out of the third Test against England through injury. Rahul also missed the second Test in Visakhapatnam with a thigh issue, which India won to level the series 1-1. It is yet to be confirmed whether all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja will return to the XI after a hamstring injury. Devdutt Padikkal replaces Rahul in an already depleted India squad, with star batter Virat Kohli confirmed to miss the remainder of the series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) added that Rahul "has reached 90% match fitness" and is expected to return for the fourth and fifth Tests. The third Test starts in Rajkot on Thursday 15 February. Middle order batter Shreyas Iyer was also not named in the squad for the remaining three Tests, leaving a relatively inexperienced batting line-up if Jadeja is ruled unfit. India squad for third Test: Rohit Sharma (capt), Jasprit Bumrah, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wk), KS Bharat (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep. England in India 2024: Fixtures, results and scorecards STORY

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce says his behaviour towards head coach Andy Reid during Sunday's Super Bowl was "definitely unacceptable". Kelce bumped into Reid, 65, and shouted in his face in the first quarter of the game against the San Francisco 49ers, which Kansas City won in overtime. The 34-year-old was unhappy about being taken off when Isiah Pacheco fumbled the ball eight yards out. Both Kelce and Reid downplayed the incident after the game in Las Vegas. "I was just telling him how much I love him," Kelce joked to CBS, while Reid told ESPN Kelce had apologised. LIVE: Latest from Super Bowl parade shooting One dead, several injured in shooting at Super Bowl parade But speaking on New Heights, external, the podcast he co-hosts with his brother Jason, Kelce said: "I can't get that fired up to the point where bumping coach and it's getting him off balance and stuff. "It came in a moment when we weren't playing very well and I wasn't playing very well. "It's definitely unacceptable and I immediately wished I could have taken it back. Coach Reid actually came right up to me after that and didn't even have harsh words for me." Jason Kelce, who played two seasons under Reid with the Philadelphia Eagles, said his brother had "crossed the line". "The yelling in his face, too, was over the top," Jason Kelce added on Wednesday's podcast. "I think there are better ways to handle this, retrospectively." Kelce, who is in a relationship with pop star Taylor Swift, said Reid would have had every right to respond to his outburst with physicality. FULL STORY

One person has died and 21 people were wounded in a shooting in Missouri at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade. Officials said they treated eight victims who were in immediately life-threatening condition, as well as seven others who had suffered injuries that could prove life-threatening. An area hospital confirmed that nine children were among the wounded. Police said they have arrested three suspects in connection to the shooting. The shots were fired west of Union Station, the train station in downtown Kansas City, which was close to thousands of fans who had gathered for the victory parade on Wednesday. The parade ended outside Union Station around 14:00 local time (20:00 GMT), and local reports said Kansas City Chiefs players were still on a stage when shots were first fired. The gunfire caused the watching crowd, including the city's mayor and his family members, to run for cover. More than 800 police officers were already on the scene to monitor the parade, officials said, including on top of buildings to ensure the safety of those who had gathered to watch. The city's fire department was also present to provide medical attention if needed. Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said officers responded immediately after the gunshots broke out and detectives who were on the scene immediately opened an investigation. At a news conference on Wednesday, Chief Graves said a total of 22 people were struck by gunfire - one of whom is dead - and three individuals were arrested. The surviving victims were transported to three local hospitals, officials said, with the immediately life-threatening cases taken to hospital within 10 minutes of the shooting. Nine children with gunshot wounds are being treated at Children's Mercy hospital which cares for patients under the age of 17, an administrator said. Local hospitals said they were also treating people who were not shot but who had suffered other injuries in the sudden stampede that followed the shooting. City officials did not release the names or ages of any of the victims. They also did not share any information about the suspects who were arrested, including what might have led to the shooting. A law enforcement source told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, that the shooting appeared to be the result of an argument that turned violent. The source said it was not terrorism related. Police said they are still investigating a motive, however, and they said they are still gathering digital and physical evidence. They asked for any eye witnesses or individuals with information to contact law enforcement. Full Story

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You should know Thailand by now, what works in one place doesnt mean it will work elsewhere, only your office or someone who has used your office (and even thats not always true) can answer the question 100%

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And another figure of ones history drops off the conveyor belt. Not nice when one by one the people you enjoyed and entertained the masses through the years is gone.

Shopping Mall is Lotus, restaurant is a noodle stall and Mercedes is only on TV around here 😀

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The Champions League last 16 begins on Tuesday with holders Manchester City away to Danish champions FC Copenhagen. Arsenal are the only other British club in action, hoping to reach the quarter-finals of Europe's premier competition after a 14-year absence. Elsewhere, two Englishmen are charging in the golden boot race and Harry Kane is hoping to finally break his trophy duck by firing Bayern Munich to European glory. BBC Sport has the lowdown on all the things you need to know. Listen to the latest Football Daily podcast More from BBC Sport

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