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2024 Wyndham Championship: Preview, Props, Best Bets
The race is on for coveted spots in the FedEx Cup playoffs at this week's Wyndham Championship, which serves as the final regular-season event of 2024.,The final opportunity to qualify has drawn a field chock full of players hovering around the top 70 in the standings who will earn spots in the firs...
Golf Glance: Final playoff push at Wyndham Championship
Field Level Media's Golf Glance provides weekly news and storylines from each of the major North American golf tours.,PGA TOUR,LAST TOURNAMENT: Olympic Men's Golf Competition (Scottie Scheffler),THIS WEEK: Wyndham Championship, Greensboro, N.C., Aug. 8-11,Course: Sedgefield Country Club (Par 70, 7,1...
China's Li Fabin defends Olympic gold; Hampton Morris takes bronze
PARIS -- China's Li Fabin retained the 61kg Olympic weightlifting title with a dominant performance and total lift of 310kg at the Paris Games on Wednesday, coming up just short in a bid to break his own world record.,The three-time world champion led off with an Olympic record lift of 143kg with hi...
Wednesday August 7 Best Sports Betting Picks for MLB Games on 8/7/2024
It's a packed MLB slate on Wednesday due to several rainouts on Tuesday night. We locked in our best betting predictions for August 7th's MLB slate of games....
Poland's Aleksandra Mirolaw climbs to gold in Paris
PARIS -- Poland's world-record holder Aleksandra Miroslaw prevailed in women's speed climbing on Wednesday to claim her country's first gold medal at the Paris Games in the sport's Olympic debut as a stand-alone event.,The 30-year-old had been the clear favorite after breaking her own world record t...
NFL Preseason Week 1 Top Betting Picks & Predictions
The first full week of preseason football is almost among us, and these are our top NFL betting picks and predictions for week one of the preseason....
Kellie Harrington retires after retaining Olympic lightweight title
PARIS -- Kellie Harrington beat Yang Wenlu of China by split decision Tuesday in the final of the lightweight category at the Paris Olympics to retain her crown and become the first Irish boxer to win back-to-back gold medals.,After clinching victory, Harrington said she was hanging up her gloves.,"...
Australian Arisa Trew, 14, takes Olympic gold in women’s park
PARIS -- Arisa Trew delivered a technical masterpiece in her final run at the Paris Games on Tuesday to grab gold in women's park as the 14-year-old became the first Australian woman to win an Olympic skateboarding medal.,Trew saved her best for last, delivering a gutsy and precise performance on he...
Cuba's Mijain Lopez wins fifth consecutive Olympic wrestling gold
PARIS -- Japan's Kenichiro Fumita claimed the first wrestling gold of the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, winning the men's 60kg Greco-Roman event as Cao Liguo of China took silver.,Zholaman Sharshenbekov of Kazakhstan and North Korean Ri Se-ung claimed bronze in the event.,Cuba's Mijain Lopez, 41, won t...
Giants WR Malik Nabers, Lions S Kerby Joseph throw punches in joint workouts
Detroit Lions safety Kerby Joseph threw a flurry of punches at New York Giants rookie wide receiver Malik Nabers, who threw the first blow with a right hand to Joseph's facemask on the way back to the huddle on Tuesday during a joint practice between the teams. ,Nabers didn't make it back to the Gia...
Quan Hongchan takes another diving gold for China
PARIS -- China's Quan Hongchan won the women's 10-metre platform event on Tuesday, bagging the country's fifth diving gold medal at the Paris Olympics.,Quan retained her Tokyo title on 425.60 points from teammate Chen Yuxi, who again won silver. North Korea's Kim Mi Rae took the bronze.,Quan and Che...
White Sox favored to avoid all-time losing streak records
How long the Chicago White Sox extend their historic losing streak has become an intriguing plot line for oddsmakers.,The White Sox enter Tuesday's game at the Oakland Athletics riding a 21-game losing streak, which tied the 1988 Baltimore Orioles for the American League record. They can establish a...
Pitbull buys naming rights to FIU's football venue
Florida International will welcome its opponents to Pitbull Stadium in Miami, beginning this football season.,The university and Miami-based entertainer Armando Christian Perez, better known as Pitbull, agreed to a deal of at least five years to rebrand the campus stadium with his name.,The FIU boar...
Tuesday August 6 Best Sports Betting Picks for Olympics Men's Basketball & MLB Predictions
These are our top sports betting picks for August 6, 2024 including predictions for Team USA men's basketball and Tuesday's MLB slate of games....
United States' Caroline Marks wins surfing gold in Tahiti
TEAHUPO'O, Tahiti -- Caroline Marks of the United States won the women's surfing gold medal on Monday, moving the United States into a tie with China for the gold-medal lead.,Marks logged a close win over Brazil's Tatiana Weston-Webb in the championship match, prevailing 10.50-10.33. France's Johann...
Olympic Women’s Golf Competition: Preview, Best Bets
When it comes to the field for the Olympic Women's Golf Competition, it seems there's Nelly Korda, a massive gap, then everybody else.,That's how the betting public is treating the event so far. DraftKings reported Monday that Korda, the +400 favorite to win the gold medal after prevailing in Tokyo ...
Reports: Vikings WR Jordan Addison charged with two misdemeanors
Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison was charged with two misdemeanors after an arrest for suspicion of driving under the influence last month, multiple outlets reported Monday.,Addison is set for an Oct. 7 arraignment at Los Angeles County Superior Court after he was officially charged la...
NFL lifts gambling ban for Broncos DE Eyioma Uwazurike
The NFL reinstated Denver Broncos defensive end Eyioma Uwazurike from his gambling suspension on Monday.,He was suspended indefinitely last July after being accused of betting on games he played in, both with the Broncos and while at Iowa State. ,Uwazurike, 26, had also been facing gambling-related ...
Monday August 5th Olympics Best Betting Picks & Predictions
These are our best sports betting picks and predictions for the Olympics soccer, track, and more on Monday August 5, 2024....
IOC says IBA gender tests on two boxers were flawed, illegitimate
PARIS -- The gender tests conducted by the International Boxing Association (IBA) on two female fighters at last year's world championships that led to their disqualification were illegitimate and lacked credibility, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Sunday.,Algerian boxer Imane Khel...