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Two of the LPGA’s and PGA Tour’s youngest stars are featured at the Grant Thornton Invitational as Rose Zhang and Sahith Theegala will play together.
A new mixed event is here this fall for LPGA and PGA Tour stars. The Grant Thornton Invitational will be one of the Challenge Season events. They will take on Tiburón Golf Club & The Ritz-Carlton Naples in Florida.
The tournament provides 16 LPGA and 16 PGA TOUR players a week of entertainment and competition, as well as, enjoyable activities for the entire family.

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Before debuting on the ESPN airwaves on Thursday, the producers overseeing The Pat McAfee Show made sure to properly warn audiences of what to expect from the uber-popular program going forward.
Host Pat McAfee’s seismic deal with ESPN back in May left many fans wondering just how McAfee & Co. would handle jumping from FanDuel to the family-friendly network leading up to Thursday’s debut. But, if the show’s opening was any indication, The Pat McAfee Show won’t be losing its edge; they just ask that no one sues them over it.

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Arkansas State head coach Butch Jones has placed some of the negativity surrounding his team’s season-opening loss to Oklahoma on fans Tennessee, where Jones used to coach.
I hate to break it to Butch, but when you lose 73-0 against anybody, you’re going to receive a lot of negativity commentary. It just so happens that Tennessee fans have a strong presence on social media. But if he’s going to blame folks, start with the media, which was ripping him following the game, myself included.

“A lot of that (negativity) is from another fan base”…..

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Ahead of the 44th Ryder Cup in Rome, plenty of big time athletes and celebrities will tee it up in the Ryder Cup all-star competition.
The stars are headed to Rome for the Ryder Cup.
Along with the 24 golfers who will represent Europe and the United States, a dozen athletes, and celebrities from all over the world will tee it up in the Ryder Cup all-star match on Wednesday, Sept. 27—two days before the opening tee shot is struck for the biennial competition.

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1. Back in March, Stephen A. Smith was a guest on Dan Le Batard’s show, and the state of hot-take shows was discussed, with the conversation going viral after Le Batard told Smith, “I hate what you two [Skip Bayless and Smith] have done to sports television.”
The two then talked about each other and the argument on their respective shows until they finally met face to face (or Zoom to Zoom) on Smith’s podcast earlier this week.
And they went right at it again on the topic of debate shows.

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U.S. Soccer has appointed Marko Mitrović as the next U.S. men’s youth national team under-23 coach, putting him in charge of the men’s soccer team that will compete at the Paris Olympics next summer. 
Over the last year, the Serbian-born coach served as the U.S. men’s youth national team U-19 coach, leading the team to a 6-0-0 record, as well as an assistant to interim USMNT coaches Anthony Hudson and B.J. Callaghan during the senior team’s Concacaf Nations League title this summer. 
“It’s been an honor working for U.S.

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Attention to detail is a major sticking point for this year’s Steelers, both on the field and in the locker room. 
Star defensive back Minkah Fitzpatrick played his college football under Nick Saban at Alabama, for whom details are everything. Among them: no stepping on the team logo on the floor in the locker room.
After years of reported discussion on instituting a similar policy in Pittsburgh, Fitzpatrick took it upon himself ahead of the 2023 season.

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Legendary former Dallas Cowboys WR Michael Irvin is, unsurprisingly, all in on his old team to win it all in 2023.
Appearing on FS1’s Undisputed on Thursday morning, Irvin picked the Cowboys to win Super Bowl LVIII over the Cincinnati Bengals during the show’s Super Bowl picks segment. If his pick comes true, it’d be the first championship in 27 years for the Cowboys, dating back to the three Super Bowl rings Irvin won in a Cowboys uniform in the 1990s.
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Here’s Irvin on why this is the year for Dallas to break through again.

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