Former world number one Vijay Singh sued the PGA Tour on Wednesday, a week after golf's premier tour dropped a doping a case against the three-times major winner. Singh was initially found by the PGA Tour to have breached the sport's doping rules after using a spray, which contains a banned substance, to treat an injury but was later cleared of any wrongdoing after winning an appeal.
He filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York on Wednesday, and issued a statement saying the PGA Tour had damaged his reputation.
"I am proud of my achievement, my work ethic and the way I live my life," Singh said in the statement. "The PGA Tour not only treated me unfairly, but displayed a lack of professionalism that should concern every professional golfer and fan of the game."
Although he never failed a drugs test, Singh was deemed to have breached golf's rules on doping when he told Sports Illustrated earlier this year he had used deer antler spray. The spray was found to have contained small extracts of IGF-1, a growth hormone on the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) list of prohibited substances. The PGA Tour imposed a sanction on Singh following his admission but the Fijian appealed, saying he was unaware the spray contained any banned substances....
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11:43 PM, May 08, 2013
Charlotte: Vijay Singh withdrew from the Wells Fargo Championship because of a sore back Wednesday, one day after the PGA Tour said it would not punish the Fijian for his admission that he used deer antler spray. The tour said on Tuesday the World Anti-Doping Agency informed it that the spray contains only small amounts of a growth hormone factor that is banned under the anti-doping policy. The tour had...
09:11 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police has registered a case against an Assistant Commissioner for allegedly slapping a young woman during a protest against the rape of a five-year-old girl. BS Alhawat, the ACP who was suspended after he was caught on camera, was charged with causing hurt (section 323 of IPC) after the victim filed a complaint on Wednesday, a senior police official said. Alhawat was suspended within hours after the...
08:46 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Should Sreesanth have brought up the IPL slapgate controversy after so many years? Sanjeeb Mukherjea, associate editor, Cricket, CNN-IBN, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Hi good evening, well don't you feel all these are just a gimmick Asked by: satish rao A. Hi Satish, Good question indeed. It is indeed surprising that an old issue is raked up like this after 5 years. However, its...
07:40 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi:Paceman S Sreesanth has been warned by the BCCI for raking up the 2008 'Slapgate' issue through a social networking website. The Rajasthan Royals paceman has been told that if he repeats it again, he will be issued a show cause notice, according to an IPL source. Sreesanth made revelation through his tweets that Harbhajan Singh was a backstabber and that the spinner had not slapped him as had...
05:18 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Khadi and Village Industry Minister Raja Ram Pandey, who triggered a controversy by allegedly promising to get roads in Pratapgarh district constructed like cheeks of actresses Hema Malini and Madhuri Dixit, was on Saturday sacked. "Governor BL Joshi in consultation with Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has relieved minister Raja Ram Pandey from his post from this evening," a notification signed by chief secretary Javed Usmani said. The...
10:58 PM, Apr 13, 2013
New Delhi: Claiming that he has got the only copy of 'slapgate' video, former IPL Chairman Lalit Modi on Friday claimed that the BCCI had not made the footage of the incident public on the suggestion of vice-president Arun Jaitley and said he would now consider releasing it. "The idea of not releasing the vid in public was Arun Jaitley's at that time. We accepted wht he said. But let...
10:36 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Cricket analyst Harsha Bhogle, who was consultant with Mumbai Indians at the time of the slapgate incident in 2008, shared his thoughts on the matter. ...
09:39 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Augusta, Georgia: The Masters is widening the weekend field for this week's tournament and granting automatic entry next year to more PGA Tour winners, Augusta National chairman Billy Payne said on Wednesday. The cut for the 93-player field will be expanded by six to the top 50 and ties, along with those within 10 strokes of the lead, to include more players in the final two rounds of the year's...
03:23 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Pratapgarh: The CBI team, probing murder of Kunda DSP Zia-ul Haq, on Tuesday recovered the motorcycle which was allegedly used in the murder of Balipur village head Nanhe Yadav. The recovery was made after intense grilling of two brothers--Ajay Pal and Vijay Pal, both sons of Kamta Pal who is also a suspect in Yadav's killing, CBI sources said. The trio had allegedly shot dead Balipur village head over a...
02:15 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Lucknow: Once again a policeman in Uttar Pradesh has been accused of rape, dealing another massive blow to the already poor law and order in the state. A policemen Veer Singh has been arrested for allegedly raping and threatening a women in Raniganj police station on Sunday. Veer Singh allegedly assaulted the woman, who had come to file a rape complaint, after promising to help her. The victim alleges in...
12:01 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Was there a history of animosity between the Kunda strongman Raja Bhaiya and the slain DSP Zia-ul-Haq? CNN-IBN has accessed a criminal history sheet that was prepared against Raja Bhaiya by the DSP. Dated September 5, 2012, the criminal record states 47 cases against Raguraj Pratap Singh, aka Raja Bhaiya, since 1991. ...
07:42 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Slain DSP Zia-ul-Haq's wife has demanded an outside state trial and hearing by a fast track court into her husband's murder. In a letter addressed to the UP government, Parveen Azad has asked that the probe should be done by a Delhi CBI team, which report directly to the court. ...
05:15 PM, Mar 10, 2013
In spite of being named in an FIR for murder and conspiracy, why is the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) still not questioning former UP Minister Raja Bhaiya over the killing of the Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq and two others? A team of the investigative agency is in Kunda probing the killings. ...
10:37 AM, Mar 10, 2013
The widow of slain police officer Zia-Ul-Haq has refused to accept the job offered by the Uttar Pradesh government saying that she would not accept anything other than a DSP's post. Parveen Azad who has been maintaining distance from the media, on Saturday told the visiting leader of Loktantrik Congress Harishanka Tewari that she would not accept any job less than DSP. ...
04:45 PM, Mar 09, 2013
The Uttar Pradesh government has reportedly offered government jobs to the wife and the brother of slain DSP Zia-ul-Haq. Dr Parveen Azad, the wife of the DSP, has been offered the position of Officer on Special Duty in the police welfare dpartment and his brother has been offered a constable's post. ...
11:50 PM, Mar 08, 2013
A CBI team on Friday reached Pratapgarh where DSP Zia-ul-Haq and two others were murdered. They have named Kunda MLA and former UP minister Raja Bhaiya as the main accused in one of the four FIRs. The ten-member CBI probe team will be collecting details from the chief medical officer of Pratapgarh on Zia-ul-Haq's post-mortem report. ...
09:55 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Tiger walked off the course in the middle of the final round at Doral last year, but went on to win three times on the PGA Tour. ...
07:31 PM, Mar 07, 2013
A new development is likely in the probe over the killing of Uttar Pradesh DSP Zia-ul-Haque in Pratapgarh. CBI sources say they are likely to register four FIRs in the matter. One will be regarding the murder of the DSP on the basis of his wife's complaint to the UP Police. ...
09:25 AM, Mar 07, 2013
There is a fresh twist into the brutal killing of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Superintendent of Police Zia-ul-Haque in Pratapgarh. The government doctors citing his post-mortem report have said that his life could have been saved had he been taken to the hospital within 30 minutes of being shot. ...
07:46 AM, Mar 07, 2013
