At West Brom he won the Championship title and promotion to the Premier League in 2008, but the club were relegated after just a season in the top flight despite receiving praise for their entertaining football.
He won the season championship upon his return to the IndyCar Series this year.
At the title-deciding 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix it looked as though he had won the championship only for McLaren's Lewis Hamilton to pass a struggling Timo Glock on the last corner of the last lap and grab the four points he needed to take the crown.
He duly won the championship and the prestigious Formula Ford Festival at the end of the year.
Most famously, Damon Hill's contract was not renewed at the end of 1996 even though he won the world championship that year.
The 24-year-old was heavily criticised for some of his rides in his first season with O'Brien, although he won the Irish championship.
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Cavallin, the first player Whistle signed for the fledgling Giants back in the summer of 2000, returns to the club he won the league championship with last season.
McGhee's first management job came at Reading in 1991 and he won the Second Division championship in his third season with the Royals.
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"He's a big manager, he has a big history with France and with Tunisia - he's won the European Championship and the Africa Cup of Nations, " he told BBC Sport.
He entered the world championship in 1972 and won the title the first time of asking, beating John Spencer 37-32.
Belgrave Harrier Neil Speight had more than five seconds to spare as he won the 1500m in a championship record of 3:43.31.
Macaulay first rose to prominence when he won the West of Scotland Championship in 2006 and reached the fifth round of the Scottish Amateur tournament in 2007.
Hamilton says it will be a waste of his career if he fails to add to the world championship crown he won in 2008.
He won the season-ending tour championship last year, but he has never won a major.
Last year, McIlroy won his second major -- adding the PGA Championship to the U.S. Open title he won the year before -- while also becoming world No. 1 for the first time.
As soon he won his first national championship last season, the Kentucky coach announced he had already set his sights on a new goal.
Tebow is a legend in Florida thanks to his success at University of Florida where he won the Heisman Trophy and led the Gators to the 2008 national championship.
The midget hockey team he coaches, the Long Island Royals, won a state championship last month.
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When Khan won the PGA Championship in 2010, he rallied from a seven shot deficit in the final round with another 66.
The 38-year-old's three-shot victory from South African Richard Sterne came 210 starts since he won his first at the Dunhill Links Championship, and put him inside the world's top 60 rankings.
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During his career he won 27 of 99 Formula One races and three times won the Formula One world championship.
Babel was a member of the Dutch team that won the European Under-21 Championship in June and he has been capped 14 times by the full Dutch team.
Along with an appearance at Bethpage, where he won the 2002 U.S. Open, Woods will play at the Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston and the BMW Championship at Carmel.
He won the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix and began celebrating, but was denied the championship by one point as McLaren's British driver Lewis Hamilton overtook Timo Glock on the final corner to finish fifth and steal the glory.
He has won 32 times around the world, but has yet to capture a major championship (he was runner-up at both the Masters and British Open this year).
Kuchar is in form after finishing second at last week's Crowne Plaza Invitational, while he won the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship in February.
The 'will he or won't he' uncertainty surrounding Ledley's Cardiff future still remains despite the new Championship season starting on Saturday as the Bluebirds welcome Scunthorpe United to their new stadium.
At Celtic he won a Scottish Cup medal in 1985 and the league championship in 1986.
He finished tied for fifth that week and won the PGA Championship the next.
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