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Scottie Scheffler heavily backed as big U.S. Open favorite
Scottie Scheffler appears comfortable being the biggest favorite heading into a major in 15 years, and the public continues to back him despite extremely short odds ahead of this week's U.S. Open.,The world's No. 1-ranked player is coming off his fifth win of 2024. That includes a major (the Masters...

Frank Carroll, coach of Olympic figure skaters, dies at 85
Frank Carroll, coach of some of the most prominent American figure skaters in his long career, died Sunday at age 85.,U.S. Figure Skating confirmed Carroll's death in a statement posted to social media but did not release a cause.,"U.S. Figure Skating mourns the loss of coaching legend Frank Carroll...

FaZe sweep match, move atop CDL Major 4 qualifying
The unbeaten Atlanta FaZe moved into first place in the standings in qualifying for the Call of Duty League Major 4 on Sunday.,The FaZe won all three maps in their match against the Los Angeles Guerrillas.,The Toronto Ultra moved into third place with a 3-1 win over the Miami Heretics, and the Minne...

Carlos Ortiz narrowly secures first title at LIV Golf Houston
Carlos Ortiz of Mexico earned his first LIV Golf victory on Sunday at LIV Golf Houston by shooting 5-under 67 to finish at 15 under, one stroke ahead of Poland's Adrian Meronk.,Ortiz, 33, whose only PGA Tour win came at the Vivint Houston Open in 2020, entered the final round tied for the lead with ...

Scottie Scheffler collects fifth win of 2024 at Memorial
Scottie Scheffler won another tournament and solidified his No. 1 world ranking by shooting 2-over-par 74 on Sunday to win the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio.,Scheffler held on to the lead despite challenges in tough final-round scoring conditions at Muirfield Village Golf Club. His 8-under 280...

Coco Gauff claims French Open doubles title
Coco Gauff captured her first Grand Slam doubles title Sunday, winning the French Open final in straight sets with partner Katerina Siniakova.,Gauff, 20, and her teammate from the Czech Republic defeated Italians Jasmine Paolini and Sarra Errani 7-6 (5), 6-3 in Paris.,Gauff, the 2023 U.S. Open singl...

David Puig, 3 others lead crowded field at LIV Houston
Spain's David Puig fired a 6-under 66 on Saturday to move 12 spots up the leaderboard and grab a share of the lead after two rounds of action at LIV Golf Houston. ,Puig caught fire on the back nine, rattling off five birdies from Nos. 11-17. He finished with seven birdies against just one bogey and ...

Scottie Scheffler overcomes terrible hole to keep lead at Memorial
Scottie Scheffler recovered from a disastrous hole midway through the third round of The Memorial and regained control with a 1-under par 71 on Saturday in Dublin, Ohio., ,Scheffler, the world's No. 1 golfer, will take a four-shot lead into Sunday's final round at Muirfield Village Golf Club. He's 1...

Jon Rahm withdraws from LIV Tour Houston because of foot infection
Major champion Jon Rahm withdrew after six holes of the second round of LIV Golf Houston on Saturday because of an infection in his left foot, according to the tour's website.,Rahm's status is unclear for next week's U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2, a major he won in 2021 at Torrey Pines in addition to...

League parts ways with Minnesota GM Natalie Darwitz
The Professional Women's Hockey League announced Saturday that it has parted ways with PWHL Minnesota general manager Natalie Darwitz.,Jayna Hefford, the PWHL senior vice president of hockey operations, said in a Zoom interview that the decision involved more than one person after a review of team o...

Iowa's Ava Jones medically retiring from basketball
Iowa's Ava Jones is medically retiring from college basketball, two years after sustaining serious injuries in a car crash that killed her father.,Jones, from Nickerson, Kan., was with her parents and brother on July 5, 2022, standing on a sidewalk when they were struck by an allegedly intoxicated d...

Sterling Shepard: Baker Mayfield text led to signing with Bucs
Sterling Shepard credited quarterback Baker Mayfield for putting the wheels in motion that led to the veteran wide receiver signing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.,Shepard told the New York Post that Mayfield reached out to him last week.,"I got a text from my boy and I just thought it was (a) 'regular ol...

PGA Tour on PIF talks: 'We want to get this right'
A meeting between the representatives of PGA Tour Enterprises and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of the Saudi Public Investment Fund, and his staff yielded "progress," the PGA Tour announced Saturday.,The meeting was held Friday night in New York as the two sides work together to form an alliance.,"Rep...

FaZe pull off reverse sweep in CDL Major 4 qualifying
The Atlanta FaZe erased a two-map deficit to edge the Carolina Royal Ravens 3-2 on Friday to remain undefeated in Call of Duty League Major 4 qualifying.,In the day's other action, the New York Subliners handed the Seattle Surge their first defeat, 3-1, and the Miami Heretics downed the Minnesota Ro...

Martin Kaymer, Adrian Meronk, Caleb Surratt share LIV Houston lead
Martin Kaymer of Germany, Adrian Meronk of Poland and Caleb Surratt are tied for the lead after one round of LIV Golf Houston after the trio shot bogey-free, 7-under 65s on Friday at the Golf Club of Houston.,Kaymer and Meronk gave their team, Cleeks GC, a comfortable three-shot lead over Torque GC....

Scottie Scheffler shoots 68 to take control at Memorial
Scottie Scheffler eagled the 15th hole and birdied the last to build a three-shot lead at the Memorial Tournament on Friday in Dublin, Ohio.,The World No. 1 is back atop a PGA Tour leaderboard, seeking his fifth win of the season. In his past seven starts dating to March, he's won four tournaments a...

Yankees star Juan Soto day-to-day with forearm inflammation
New York Yankees star right fielder Juan Soto is dealing with inflammation in his left forearm and is day-to-day, manager Aaron Boone confirmed to reporters on Friday.,Soto underwent an MRI on Friday, one day after being pulled from Thursday night's game amid a rain delay due to forearm discomfort. ...

Report: Yankees' Juan Soto dealing with inflammation in forearm
Yankees star right fielder Juan Soto is dealing with inflammation in his left forearm after undergoing an MRI exam, the New York Post reported on Friday.,Soto was not in the starting lineup for New York in its series opener versus the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers. Aaron Judge was listed to play in r...

Chiefs' BJ Thompson 'alert, awake' after seizure
Kansas City Chiefs defensive end BJ Thompson was awake and "headed in the absolute right direction" Friday afternoon after the player had a seizure and went into cardiac arrest on Thursday, a team official said.,The prognosis is good for the 25-year-old Thompson, who had the seizure at the Chiefs fa...

Hall of Fame Game highlights nationally televised NFL preseason slate
The NFL released its 2024 preseason schedule Friday, also revealing the five games that will be televised nationally. ,Each of the NFL's five primary media partners will take a turn to get its crews ready for the season, starting with ESPN/ABC airing the Hall of Fame Game from Canton, Ohio, on Aug. ...