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2025 The Players Championship: Preview, Props & Best Bets
The unofficial "fifth major" of the 2025 PGA Tour season kicks off on Thursday with the first round of The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.,Contested on the famed Stadium Course, one of the year's deepest fields will vie for one of the tour's most coveted trophies. Can Scottie Scheffl...
Scottie Scheffler tees up three-peat chance at The Players Championship
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Compelling storylines are in great supply ahead of The Players Championship this week, where World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is bidding for an unprecedented third successive victory and third-ranked Xander Schauffele looks to bounce back from a recent rib injury.,World No. ...
Adam Scott: PGA-LIV merger 'may not be ultimately possible'
Adam Scott remains hopeful that negotiations between the PGA Tour and the Public Investment Fund result in a reunification of professional golf, but the former major champion is also realistic that the talks could fizzle out.,As a player director on the tour's Player Advisory Council, the 44-year-ol...
Golf Glance: Scottie Scheffler seeks record 3-peat at The Players
Field Level Media's Golf Glance provides weekly news and storylines from each of the major North American golf tours.,PGA TOUR,LAST TOURNAMENT: Arnold Palmer Invitational (Russell Henley),THIS WEEK: The Players Championship, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., March 13-16,Course: TPC Sawgrass, The Players Stad...
Former LIV golfer Laurie Canter qualifies for The Players
Laurie Canter of England became the first player with LIV Golf ties past or present to qualify for The Players Championship.,Canter, who last played on the LIV Golf circuit in 2023, finished second this weekend at the South African Open on the DP World Tour to rocket into the top 50 of the Official ...
The Second Coming of Dennis Smith Jr.
Maybe all he needed was to come home. Smith is from Fayetteville, North Carolina, and is now playing with the Charlotte Hornets, just a mere three hours from his hometown. The Hornets are Smith’s fifth team in six seasons. Last year, he split time between three teams, including the Hornets. So why h...
Players should be allowed to knock sense into idiot fans
In episode eight of the sixth season of Game of Thrones, Cersei Lannister gave pop culture one of its most popular phrases. Turned into a prisoner in her own home, the most powerful woman in Westeros was done playing politics as she felt diplomacy was no longer an option. She went with the nuclear o...
No, Baseball Does Not Have a Moral Imperative to Return This Year
It seems to be an affliction within any baseball writer above a certain age that baseball still has a special place in American culture or society. While media from all sports have tried to claim, at various times, that the sport they cover returning to action would “help” the country, it is far mor...
MLB'S Testing Plan Is Thorough, But Does It Pass The Doolittle Test?
While there are certainly many miles of financial sparring between MLB owners and players to get through before the league can return to play, issues rooted in the players’ concerns over safety. While a good portion, if not all, being the players’ anger over the owners reneging on a deal they made i...
The NFL Is Churning Through Players At A Record Rate. The Numbers Suggest That This Is All Part Of The League's Plan.
In a world where NFL owners are doing all they can to make players disposable, where the name of the game has become to market a few stars but otherwise make sure you’re just rooting for some guys wearing matching pajamas, or names on a fantasy ticker, it’s high time we appreciate J.J. Jansen, L.P. ...
The U.S. State Department Actually Clarified That Dennis Rodman "Has Never Been A Player In Our Diplomacy"
In case you were wondering:...
Bears Say Fans Need To Chill Out
After getting jeered out of the building Sunday, Brian Urlacher spoke for presumably more than a few of his teammates. "The only team in our division that gets booed at home is us," Urlacher said. "It's unbelievable to me."...
Stay Classy, San Diego
Yesterday, San Diego Padres first baseman Phil Nevin rejected a trade by the team for the third time, keeping him in San Diego and Sidney Ponson in Baltimore. (In the past, Nevin was almost traded for both Ken Griffey Jr. and Jeromy Burnitz.) The Padres, who are just one game over .500 and three ...
Oprah Winfrey, The New Lombardi
Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson is notorious for being talented, brash and way-too-loud-mouthed. Kind of like Oprah! OK, not really, but Johnson confesses that the real point of his football career is to figure out a way to make it on Oprah's show. Johnson says:...
Kurt Warner, Busy Man, Getting Busy
New Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner is renowned for his firm Christian values and devotion to family, his wife and God. (Not in that order.) He also, according to an interview with the Arizona Cardinals Web site, can apparently inseminate his wife just by looking at her....
The LaVar Arrington Weekend
A spy sends us this report from an event that Redskins linebacker LaVar Arrington and 49ers defender Julian Peterson hosted this last weekend which allegedly involved gunfire:...
For My Next Trick, I Will Get Punched In The Face Repeatedly
Many NBA players — all athletes, really — find that once their careers are over, they aren't quite sure what to do with themselves. Should they become a coach? A commentator? Start a car dealership? Spend some time with their 14 children spread across the country? NBA veteran Kendall Gill has a n...
He Does, However, Have Nice Pores
Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Kris Jenkins, after admitting that he "drank too much" in the offseason, sent this Valentine to Raiders defensive tackle Warren Sapp yesterday:...
Jake Plummer: Anti-War Activist
Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer fought the NFL last year when he wanted to honor former teammate Pat Tillman by wearing his number on his jersey. Now Plummer, longer-maned and looking awfully MoveOn.Org-y, is taking on a larger target: The government. Plummer is clearly still very upset with the mi...