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U.S. seizes 3-1 lead in Solheim Cup morning session
Nelly Korda, Allisen Corpuz, Rose Zhang and Lauren Coughlin powered the United States team to an early edge over Team Europe in the first session of the Solheim Cup on Friday in Gainesville, Va.,The Americans lead the Europeans 3-1 after Friday morning's foursome (alternate-shot) matches at Robert T...
Nelly Korda, Rose Zhang in action in first session of Solheim Cup
Major champions Nelly Korda and Allisen Corpuz have the first tee time for the U.S. at the Solheim Cup on Friday morning, with Rose Zhang slated for the Americans' second pairing.,The international team event will begin Friday at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Va., with four foursomes ...
Georgia Hall: European ‘bond’ drives Solheim Cup success
Team Europe is setting out this weekend to retain possession of the Solheim Cup for the fourth straight event, something that's never been done in its 34-year history.,The U.S. team might have been favored in the past, looking stronger on paper with star players such as Lexi Thompson and Nelly Korda...
Kentucky's Valhalla to host 2028 Solheim Cup
Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., was named Tuesday as the host course for the 21st Solheim Cup in 2028.,Valhalla will join The Greenbrier, Muirfield Village and Gleneagles as the only courses to host both a Solheim Cup -- which pits top American players from the LPGA Tour against European pros...
UPA expanding globally with pickleball events in 5 countries
The United Pickleball Association is going international.,The circuit announced Thursday that it is adding events in Australia, India, Canada, Asia and Europe to create the "world's first top-tier global pickleball tour" featuring the best players from each region.,The UPA International Championship...
Bernhard Langer bids adieu to 50-year European tour career
Bernhard Langer's half-century pro career in Europe has come to an end.,Langer missed the cut Friday at the BMW International Open, shooting a one-over 73 following an opening-round 71 in Munich in his native Germany.,Now 66, Langer played in his first event in what is now called the DP World Tour i...
Bernhard Langer bids adeiu to 50-year European tour career
Bernhard Langer's half-century pro career in Europe has come to an end.,Langer missed the cut Friday at the BMW International Open, shooting a one-over 73 following an opening-round 71 in Munich in his native Germany.,Now 66, Langer played in his first event in what is now called the DP World Tour i...
Athletes-turned-servicemen and women are not unique to America
While Memorial Day may be a uniquely American holiday, its sentiments — honoring those who have given their lives for their country in the line of duty — are global. America is no longer at war, having pulled out of Afghanistan, and if there was any positive to take away from that conflict that rage...
Surely, Ukraine’s latest soccer kit won’t incite any international controversy
On Sunday, the president of the Ukrainian Football Administration, Andriy Pavelko, revealed his country’s newest kit, which included a yellow shirt with a few Ukrainian slogans and an outline of the country — wait… is that Crimea?...
Future Of Basketball Luka Dončić<em></em> Gets A Rare Triple-Double In Spain
Possible first-overall draft pick Luka Dončić, who’s been playing in Spain with Real Madrid since he was 16, is already the kind of all-around athletic beast who appears to be the final form that every basketball player is evolving towards. He’s a six-foot-eight guard/forward hybrid who’s comfortabl...
A Trip To The Only Outdoor Public Pool In Brussels, Which Is In A Dumpster
Last year, residents of Philadelphia’s Kensington section created a dumpster pool for their block party. Though the stunt was incredibly cool, the city deemed it incredibly dangerous and forbade the 2400 block of Cedar Street from getting any more block party permits....
You Should See Europe By Car
I have never owned a car, and since my driver’s license expired at the beginning of this year, I have yet to have enough cause to motivate me to renew it. So, going by my personal experience, all I can really recommend when it comes to driving through Europe is that you should find a nice man who is...
This Week's Signs Of The Apocalypse
For nearly two decades, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to cover the end of times but declines to cede the scoop on the biggest event in world history....
Beer Of The Week: Stella Artois, Belgium's Allegedly French Beer
Apparently Stella Artois used to be advertised in the U.K. under the slogan "reassuringly expensive." Without knowing the relative merits of price and quality across the pond, I can only rejoice that such a snotty tagline has gone the way of doctors prescribing cigarettes. There is nothing reassurin...
Euro Golf Fan At Medinah Celebrates Ryder Cup Win So Hard His Tooth Flies Out On Live TV
Yesterday's Ryder Cup meltdown at Medinah—already the fodder for Taiwanese animation mockery—prompted rowdy European fans to go crazy in their celebration of what the British press is already calling one of the great sports comebacks in history. We don't blame the Euros for getting excited, but we...
Banana On The Pitch! A Roundup Of Horrible Euro 2012 Fans, With Croatia In The Early Lead
Ah yes, the traditional banana hurled at a black player. Euro 2012 is officially on!...
Ricky Rubio Of The Habsburg Empire: Picturing The NBA's Europe Through Geopolitical History
Saturday in Vienna, the remains of Otto von Habsburg — would-be Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary, (presumably non-apostolic) King of Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, and Galicia, Lodomeria, and Illyria, and so on, had all those jobs not been downsized when he was two years old — we...
Basketball Foul Is Skull-Stompingly Flagrant
ASU product Mike Batiste is a superstar in Euroleague hoops, but he kind of lost his cool the other night. Worry not: his coach made him go apologize....
Racist European Soccer Fans, Go Sit In A Corner
"A referee should first demand over the public address system that fans stop their racist behavior. If they fail to do so, the game should be suspended for five to 10 minutes, with teams sent to the locker rooms." [AP]...
Kobe Bryant Says He'd Go to Italy For $50 Million
Not content to allow LeBron James to sweep up all the attention for his leaked interest in going overseas for $50 million, Kobe Bryant stepped into the fray yesterday from Beijing. Telling The Boston Globe that he'd go to Italy for $50 million a year. You know, sooner or later the NBA brass might ha...