From left to right, Lee Westwood, Sergio Garcia, Paul Casey, and Ian Poulter; all of whom played for Europe in the 2021 Ryder Cup and have since joined LIV Golf. | Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images
The DP World Tour banned anyone associated with LIV Golf from representing Team Europe in the Ryder Cup. We want to know: should that change?
A big topic of discussion leading into this year’s Ryder Cup has been LIV Golf—or the lack thereof.
On the American side, Captain Zach Johnson picked Brooks Koepka, who plays for LIV, to represent Team USA.
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The possibility of Damian Lillard being traded to the Heat seems less and less likely as the NBA offseason progresses.
Although obstacles to the trade haven’t been expressed officially by the Heat, ESPN reporter Brian Windhorst offered insight on the potential deal based on what he’s hearing from sources. Apparently, the Trail Blazers are asking a lot of the Heat in return for Lillard, but Miami apparently isn’t willing to meet Portland’s asking price.
The Buccaneers entered the year coming off a disappointing 8–9 season and lost Tom Brady to retirement, leading much of the NFL world to write them off ahead the 2023 campaign. Undaunted, Tampa Bay is 2–0 and rolling after wins over the Vikings and Bears.
After Sunday’s win over Chicago, Bucs linebacker Devin White seemed pleasantly surprised, and he poked fun at himself when he commented on an Instagram post celebrating the team’s 27–17 win over the Bears.
The play of Jets quarterback Zach Wilson has been scrutinized in the aftermath of Aaron Rodgers’s season-ending Achilles injury.
Wilson threw for 170 yards on 12-for-27 passing with one touchdown pass and three interceptions in the Jets’ 30-10 loss to the Cowboys on Sunday, adding more dialogue to the storyline that New York is a diminished team without Rodgers. That came on the heels of a 14-for-21 effort for 140 yards with one TD pass and one interception in relief of Rodgers in a season-opening win over the Bills.
The Bengals have started the season 0–2 for the second consecutive year, but quarterback Joe Burrow isn’t worried.
Despite last season’s rough start, the Bengals reached the AFC championship game. With the playoffs on Cincinnati’s mind again, Burrow believes his team will shift its focus.
“We’ve done it before,” Burrow said after Sunday’s 27–24 loss to the Ravens. “Obviously, you don’t want to start 0–2. It’s not what we’re planning on, not what you want to do at all. But now, we’re going to bounce back. That’s what we do. It’s all there is to it.
C’mon now!
Linebacker Takeo Spikes may have only spent three seasons in Buffalo, but they were three legendary seasons. A two-time Pro Bowler, Spikes’ 2004 season remains the stuff of myth when he was a first team All-Pro on the back of 98 tackles, 3.0 sacks, 5 interceptions and 4 forced fumbles.
The man was an absolutely wrecking ball, and he needed a wrecking ball to even see the game on Sunday.
Congrats to @BuffaloBills for getting a dominant win in home opener. I wish I could’ve stayed for the entire game but seating accomodations were NOT the standard.
Justin Fields is coming off arguably the ugliest performance of his young NFL career and has been mercilessly criticized online. However, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith isn’t quick to blame the quarterback. Instead, he’s pointing the finger at the Bears as an organization.
“I’mma tell you what I see in Justin Fields. I see somebody that’s not being developed. I see somebody that’s not growing, and more importantly, I see apathy kicking in, if not despondency,” Smith said on First Take on Monday. “He knows what kind of situation he’s in.
Alabama’s backup quarterback experiment backfired, and is over for the time being.
Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban named junior Jalen Milroe – his original starter this season – the starter for Saturday’s game (3:30 p.m., CBS) between his No. 13 Tide (2-1) and No. 15 Ole Miss (3-0) in Tuscaloosa.
Milroe started Alabama’s first two games this season and did not play well in the 34-24 loss to Texas two weeks ago. Notre Dame transfer sophomore Tyler Buchner started Saturday against South Florida in Tampa and played poorly.
Dylan Cease threw the fastest pitch thrown by a White Sox pitcher in Sunday’s loss to the Twins. He also threw the slowest one.
Cease is predominantly a power pitcher, with a fastball that has averaged 95.6 mph this season (faster than 77% of MLB pitchers). The four-seamer is his primary pitch, throwing it 42.7% of the time, followed by his slider (thrown 38.9% of the time) and a curveball (15.3% of pitches). But Cease will also occasionally mix in a changeup—and he tried something new with it on Sunday.
In his start against Minnesota, Cease threw that changeup extra slow.
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (thiccer kicker burgers formerly sold separately in Columbia, Mo., in honor of game-winning hero Harrison Mevis, but sadly are now off the menu):
First Quarter: Deion’s Great Expectations
Second Quarter: Coaches as instigators
Trailing Florida (11) by 13 points with nine seconds left Saturday night, Tennessee coach Josh Heupel (12) called a timeout. He said after the game that he was hoping “to try and push one into the end zone.