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Matt Fitzpatrick: Scottie Scheffler has sewn up PGA Player of the Year
What a difference a year makes for Matt Fitzpatrick entering this week's BMW Championship in St. Louis.,The Englishman entered each of the last two BMW Championships firmly on the top-30 bubble to make the Tour Championship.,Entering this year's event at Bellerive Country Club, he's No. 2 in the Fed...
Rory McIlroy: It'll be 'tough road' for LIV players to return to PGA
Rory McIlroy has been one of the most adamant PGA Tour defenders throughout the LIV defection era this decade.,So it shouldn't come as a huge surprise that he wasn't exactly welcoming of some of these players potentially returning to the PGA amid LIV's future uncertainty.,LIV officially canceled its...
Team Liquid first to 4 wins at LCS Summer Split
Team Liquid remained unbeaten and became the first team to reach four wins on the first day of Week 4 regular-season action at the League Championship Series Summer Split on Saturday.,Liquid swept Disguised 2-0 to move atop the standings. LYON will have a chance to also improve to 4-0 on Sunday.,Sho...
U.S. sets 4×100-meter mixed medley relay world record
The U.S. 4×100-meter mixed medley relay team set a world record late Wednesday at the Pan Pacific Championships, breaking the record achieved by an American team two years ago.,At the meet in Irvine, Calif., Will Modglin swam the backstroke, Van Mathias the breaststroke, Gretchen Walsh butterfly and...
Report: LIV cancels season-ending Michigan team championship
The long-standing rumors are true and LIV Golf has canceled the season-ending team championship in Michigan, The Telegraph reported Wednesday.,The league has informed its players that the Aug. 27-30 competition in suburban Detroit will not take place. The circuit's 13 teams had been scheduled to com...
Hezly Rivera rallies to repeat in all-around at U.S. Gymnastics Championships
Hezly Rivera rallied to win her second straight national all-around championship behind a very strong second day in the women's competition at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships on Sunday afternoon in Phoenix.,Rivera, who was the youngest American Olympian at the 2024 Paris Olympics at 16 -- winning ...
Michael Brennan surges into co-lead entering final round of Wyndham
Michael Brennan posted five birdies across the final eight holes to shoot 7-under-par 63 on Saturday and move into a share of the lead with Beau Hossler through three rounds of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C.,Hossler, who was the second-round leader, finally finished his round of 66 fol...
Torrey Pines added to PGA Tour's new Championship Series in 2028
The PGA Tour's yearly tournament at Torrey Pines will become part of the new Championship Series when the circuit introduces its redesigned competitive structure in 2028.,The San Diego-area event will be known as The Sentry beginning in 2027 under a new title sponsorship agreement. The first edition...
Nikki Hiltz wins 4th straight 1500m title at USA Outdoor Championship
Nikki Hiltz won her fourth consecutive 1500-meter title in dramatic fashion at the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships on Saturday in New York.,Hiltz, who has won the last four outdoor and last four indoor 1500m races at national meets, finished with a time of 4:06.92, finishing four hundredth...
Jerry Kelly ties Cameron Percy atop Senior Open leaderboard
With a 2-under par third round, Jerry Kelly tied Cameron Percy atop the leaderboard of the ISPS Handa Senior Open in Perth, Scotland on Saturday.,For Kelly, it was his second straight round of 2-under par 68 en route to being at 8-under 202 through three rounds. Meanwhile, Percy had his roughest aft...
Cameron Percy overcomes tough conditions to extend Senior Open lead
Despite windy conditions bringing scores up, Cameron Percy extended his lead to three strokes at the halfway point of the ISPS Handa Senior Open in Perth, Scotland, on Friday.,The Australian shot a two-under-par 68 at Gleneagles Golf Course to post a 9-under 131 through two rounds, improving on the ...
WWE Night of Champions: Biggest Takeaways From Saudi Arabia
Sami Zayn captured the WWE Championship while Night of Champions delivered major title matches, surprises and SummerSlam implications....
Liquid, LuneX round out field for OWCS NA Stage 2 playoffs
Team Liquid and LuneX Gaming earned the final two spots in the regional playoffs as regular-season action wrapped Sunday in the Overwatch Champions Series' North American Stage 2.,Team Liquid swept The Kafe 3-0 to secure third place in the regular-season standings at 3-2. LuneX Gaming (2-3) lost 3-1...
Spacestation, Fuel charge into OWCS' NA Stage 2 playoffs
Spacestation Gaming and the Dallas Fuel clinched playoff spots in the Overwatch Champions Series' North American Stage 2 with victories on Saturday.,Spacestation (4-0) registered a 3-0 victory over Team Liquid (2-2), while the Fuel (3-1) cruised to a 3-0 win over Disguised (0-4).,Six teams are engag...
Wyndham Clark brings elite form into Travelers Championship
Wyndham Clark has made winning PGA Tour events look easy the last few weeks.,After going over two years between wins dating back to the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February 2024, he's won two of the last four events he played in, including his second U.S. Open championship in four years.,Add a third...
Keegan Bradley seeks third Travelers win in 4 years at 'hometown' event
The focus this week on the PGA Tour was CEO Brian Rolapp's announcement that the tour will introduce a two-tiered competitive model beginning in 2028, meaning more events with elite fields on the newly named "Championship Series" and a "Challenger Series" for the rest., ,Players likely hope this wee...
Spacestation Gaming still undefeated at OWCS Stage 2
Spacestation Gaming remained the only unbeaten team with a dominant victory on Sunday in Stage 2 of North American qualifying for the Overwatch Champions Series.,Spacestation posted a 3-0 win over LuneX Gaming to move to 3-0 in the standings and a plus-8 match differential. In other matches, The Kaf...
Spacestation Gaming move atop OWCS Stage 2 standings
Spacestation Gaming moved atop the standings with another convincing victory on Sunday in Stage 2 of North American qualifying for the Overwatch Champions Series.,Spacestation, which played just one match in the opening week, beat The Kafe 3-1 in its first of two Week 2 matches. They hold a narrow e...
Knicks' NBA champ merchandise sets sales record
The New York Knicks also are the champions of the sports merchandise world.,The Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs in five games in the NBA Finals on Saturday night, and the New York franchise had the most sales in the first 24 hours after their victory than any other league champ had in the same...
Team Liquid still unblemished at OWCS Stage 2
Team Liquid is alone atop of the standings at 2-0 after regular-season play Sunday for Stage 2 of North American qualifying for the Overwatch Champions Series.,A 3-1 win over LuneX Gaming kept Team Liquid at the top, while Dallas Fuel notched their first win in sweeping last-place The Kafe, 3-0, in ...