an owner and have repudiated Holdings commitment to compensate plaintiffs in return for tens of millions of dollars of loan guaranteess that kept the Predators solvent and in Nashvill

CHASKA, Minn. -- Lee Westwood has seen a little bit of everything - and mostly success -- in nine previous Ryder Cup appearances for Europe.The Englishman has played on seven winning teams and is 20-15-6 in his matches. This year he needed an at-large pick from good friend Darren Clarke, the European captain, to make the team.And given all the changes made by the Americans leading up to the 41st Ryder Cup, Westwood says the pressure will be clearly on the opposition when matches begin Friday morning at Hazeltine National.We take a lot of pride in that, that the USA are taking it so seriously to bring this task force together and bring Davis [Love III] in as captain again, Westwood said. We take a lot of pride in that. Gives us a lot of confidence and puts added pressure on them.You form a task force and it doesnt go right this week, where do you go from there? Youve done pretty much all you can do. So well see how that goes.The U.S. formed a Ryder Cup task force in the aftermath of a third straight defeat two years ago at Gleneagles in Scotland. It was the Americans sixth loss in the past seven Ryder Cups, and their eighth in the past 10.The idea was to get the players more involved, tweak the points formula, and put forth a system of continuity that can be built on for future Ryder Cups in terms of assistants and captains.The task force was disbanded when Love was named captain in February 2015. It has been replaced by a committee consisting of Love, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods and three PGA of America executives, with the idea of having a system in place for the future.Its very much like the model the Europeans have done, with tremendous success, in bringing out their best golf, and I give them a lot of credit in their ability to lift each other up to great heights, Mickelson said of the U.S. changes. To play some of their best golf together in these events, and when you get together as a team and work together, you can achieve much greater success than you ever can as an individual. And weve seen that for decades from the European side.Mickelson and J.B. Holmes are the only members of the U.S. side this year to have played on a winning Ryder Cup team. Westwood is among six European players who have been on a winning team, although the squad is filled out by six Ryder Cup rookies.It fills us with a lot of confidence, Westwood said. A lot of the players on the European side have had multiple experiences of winning Ryder Cups. And on the other side of that, on the U.S. team, a lot of their players have had multiple experiences of losing Ryder Cups. Winning is a habit, and a lot of the players on the European team have that habit and know what the experience is like and what to do.Swell Bottles Sale . McCarthy, a player who played some games in the second tier for Wigan at the start of this season, would go on to shine inside Evertons midfield, outplaying the man he was brought in to replace, on one of the grandest stages in English football. On Saturday, it was fitting that Manchester Uniteds most recent dagger into the chest was delivered by Frenchman Yohan Cabaye, a wonderfully gifted central midfielder who put on an outstanding effort for Newcastle at Old Trafford. Swell Water Bottle Cheap . Brazilian national coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has confirmed that the veteran goalkeeper is set to join Toronto on loan, saying it will help him be ready for the World Cup. http://www.swellwaterbottlesale.com/ . Scott won the Australian PGA last week in his first event in Australia since winning the U.S. Masters in April. American Matt Kuchar, ahead by two strokes with four to play and even with Scott with one to go, double-bogeyed the 18th after taking two shots to get out of a bunker. 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The Clippers were angry about blowing a big lead; the Kings didnt like being in that kind of hole and nearly digging themselves out only to lose.NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A chancellor will rule within the week on whether a co-owner of the Nashville Predators can keep his lawsuit against the teams ownership group in a Tennessee court or have to submit to arbitration.Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle heard nearly three hours of arguments Wednesday on a motion that would force David Freeman out of her court and back into arbitration with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.Freeman, a former team chairman, sued Predators Holdings LLC and current team chairman Tom Cigarran on June 23 and is seeking $250 million in damages for his original 48 percent stake in the team being diluted.The lawsuit states that Freeman, through Commodore Trust, organized the Holdings investment group in 2007 to keep the Predators in Nashville. But it charges that some Holdings members have conspired to repay his dedication to the team and community by claiming that Commodore owns less than one percent of Holdings.The lawsuit also states that members of the Predators ownership group have refused to treat Commodore Trust as an owner and have repudiated Holdings commitment to compensate plaintiffs in return for tens of millions of dollars of loan guaranteess that kept the Predators solvent and in Nashville.ddddddddddddThe complaint names Cigarran the chief architect of this scheme.Freeman has been involved in other NHL arbitration cases over the past year, but the lawsuit argues that Bettman cannot be impartial because he has an obligation to protect the league.At Wednesdays hearing, attorneys for Freeman and Commodore Trust -- which is also a plaintiff in the lawsuit -- argued that league rules are so overly broad that they wrongly could allow the commissioner to arbitrate this case. They also argued Freeman is technically not a co-owner of the team but rather an investor in a trust whose business dispute should not be decided by the commissioner.Lawyers for both Predators Holdings and the NHL defended the commissioners impartiality and the leagues constitution, which gives Bettman the right to handle disagreements among both clubs and owners through arbitration. They also said Freeman agreed to arbitration when he signed consent agreements as part of buying the Predators in December 2007. ' ' '