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RORY MCILROY "won the U.S. PGA Tour’s Player of the Year award for the second time after capturing consecutive major titles" and leading all golfers with $8.3M in prize money. McIlroy, 25, "won the award in a vote of U.S. tour players." BILLY HORSCHEL, MARTIN KAYMER, JIMMY WALKER and BUBBA WATSON "were also on the ballot for the award" (BLOOMBERG, 10/1).

MANU UNDER FIRE: Former ManU players PAUL SCHOLES and RIO FERDINAND "launched an attack on Manchester City fans for their failure to create a 'special European atmosphere' against Roma on Tuesday night." Man City "failed to sell out the Etihad Stadium against the Serie A giants and Scholes believes the club's fans are partly at fault for their struggles in Europe by not creating an intimidating and hostile atmosphere." Scholes: "When you come here it just doesn't have a European night feel to it. You go to Liverpool, you go to Old Trafford, you go to Chelsea, they have a special feeling for it" (London TELEGRAPH, 10/1).

IN GERMANY: Second Bundesliga club SV Darmstadt President RÜDIGER FRITSCH "has been re-elected for another two years." The 53-year-old "was re-elected unanimously at the club's annual meeting on Tuesday." VPs MARKUS PFITZNER and VOLKER HAAR "were also confirmed in their positions" (DPA, 10/1). ... Handball Bundesliga (HBL) club HSV Handball supervisory board member FRITZ BAHRDT "has resigned from his post" (HAMBURGER ABENDBLATT, 9/29). Austrian second tier football club SKN St. Pölten has parted ways with Sports Manager CHRISTOPH BRUNNAUER. The club said that the position "will remain vacant for the time being, and Brunnauer's duties will be divided internally" (KURIER, 10/1). ... MANOLO SAIZ, a former sporting director from '89-06 at Int'l Cycling Union (UCI) ProTour team Liberty Seguros -- which was also known as ONCE and Astana -- is "returning to the sport as the leader of the sporting department" for U23 team Baqué-Campos, which is hoping to "add to its structure a team competing at the continental level" in '15 (EFE, 10/1). ... Barcelona striker NEYMAR's father told Spanish Judge PABLO RUZ that Real Madrid offered €150M to "sign his son, but the forward was seduced by the opportunity to play for Barcelona." Sources present during NEYMAR SR.'s testimony said that he "defended some of the contracts which were struck with Barcelona" (MARCA, 10/1).

WASSERMAN ADDS EVANS: Wasserman Media Group announced golfer RYAN EVANS has joined the agency. Evans joins the likes of JASON DAY and RICKIE FOWLER in the Wasserman Golf division. Following a successful amateur career Evans is now embarking on life as a professional and will be making his European Tour debut at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship from Thursday-Sunday (Wasserman Media Group). ... MLB Houston Astros player JOSE ALTUVE and Colorado Rockies player JUSTIN MORNEAU, the two league batting champions, "will be on the roster" for the MLB all-star postseason tour of Japan. Washington’s BRYCE HARPER "also was added Tuesday for the trip, which includes a five-game series against Japan’s national team from Nov. 12-18" (AP, 10/1).

MORE CHAOS: League One side Leyton Orient has been "plunged into more chaos" after MATT PORTER "quit the board under orders from the new owners." Porter was CEO from '06 until the summer when FRANCESCO BECCHETTI "bought the club" from BARRY HEARN. He "agreed to remain at the club as a director but has revealed his shock at being asked to resign" by CEO ALESSANDRO ANGELIERI on Monday because, he claims, Becchetti “would prefer that the board of directors is kept as small as possible" (London EVENING STANDARD, 10/1).

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