A lot of sport over the weekend. So much always keeps happening in the world of sports.

• Michael Schumacher: The Rise of the Phoenix.

• Weekend Hodgepodge by Jason Kent.

• Cue Sports Newsbites.

• NBA Conference Semi-finals predictions.

• Bonds closing in on Babe Ruth.

• Nanda Kishore on too much cricket.

• Wie lacks behind on final day.

• A memorable win for Furyk.

• The new Nistelrooy-Man U Issue.

• All India Football Association shortlist 11 for coach job.

Told you, so much keeps happening in the world of sports!

Michelle Wie is achieving what few women have managed - competing in a man dominated professional sport. CNN reports:

Sixteen-year-old Michelle Wie on Friday became the first women to make the cut in a major men’s tour event for 61 years at Incheon, South Korea.

Wie fired four birdies on her way to a three-under 69 in the second round of the Asian Tour’s SK Telecom Open to put at her at five under.

The last woman to make the final two rounds of a senior men’s event was Babe Zaharias at the 1945 Los Angeles Open.

Babe Zaharias did it in another era. That no one managed it till now in golf, since then, is testimonial to the increasing standards in golf, and gives some understanding to what Wie is achieving. Analysts and golf writers say that we might only start understanding what Tiger Woods achieved in golf, the barriers he broke and what he meant to golf only after many years of the Woods retirement.

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