Talking Balls: Golf, Gaol, Grasseaters & Goalscoring Midfielders

Talking Balls has been spending all of its time watching the Euros but it's time to acknowledge that there are other sports and they are still taking place. There's more to life than watching Spain hammer Ireland.

Paul the Octopus may have died but making animals predict football results will never die. Tianjin now has a llama (or maybe an alpaca) that can spit out the results. Read more here, if that's your kind of thing. There's a picture below that explains everything.

Big news in the game of golf. A Chinese national has won a major tournament. Once again it's on the ladies tour, as Li Na's first tennis major was. Feng Shanshan is the name to remember, she won the LGPA Championship to earn her place in history, and you should expect a surge in interest in golf - just like the tennis surge after Li Na's Paris victory.

More China golf news comes with the man that some countries know as Tigre, Tiger Woods, rating the future of Andy Zhang highly. The 14-year-old golf prodigy is based in Florida.

Football news. The Euros are on. A little closer to home, the corruption trial has been a success. Eight have been jailed. Well done to the CFA.

More football news - Tim Cahill may be the next player to have his head turned by the renminbi. The Everton midfielder has been linked with a move to Guizhou Renhe, and it was in a broadsheet newspaper so it must be true.

Finally, catch up with the famous and infamous of Chinese sport here. There's a lot to catch up on.

Talking Balls promises to return.

Image: Daily Mail & China News