Who will be this year’s Geno Smith? Which team will go from worst to first? Will the 49ers be the NFL’s biggest disappoint? Matt Harmon dives into all that and more.
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ST ANDREWS, Scotland — Cameron Smith of Australia celebrates with The Claret Jug during Day Four of The 150th Open at St Andrews Old Course on July 17, 2022. | Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images
The R&A announced Tuesday that golf’s oldest major, The Open Championship, will return to Royal Birkdale in 2026.
The Open Championship will return to Royal Birkdale in 2026 for the eleventh time.
The English club most recently hosted The Open in 2017, when Jordan Spieth won his third major championship.
Wednesday night, Jon Jones will win the ESPY for 2023 UFC Fighter of the Year.
Does that seem preposterous to anyone else?
Jones is one of the greatest to compete in the Octagon, though it feels like he won solely to add more star power to ESPN’s annual summer production. While the award is based on online voting, this wasn’t exactly a fair fight: Jones was set up to win.
Jones won the fan vote against Islam Makhachev, Amanda Nunes and Leon Edwards. If you’re awaiting an explanation as to why other fighters weren’t included, so am I.
Although James Harden has reportedly reiterated his trade request to the 76ers‘ front office, there may be a “path to reconciliation” between the 10-time All-Star and Philadelphia.
Harden and the Sixers have been working on finding a trade partner since June. Though the Clippers have emerged as a possible suitor, ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne reported that conversations with 76ers players may be able to sway the 33-year-old into possibly giving it another go with the team.
Jon Gruden’s quixotic effort to find out who leaked the damaging emails that destroyed his coaching career will march on. Someday, at some point, we will figure out who exactly determined the contents of a boomer’s decade-old correspondence was appropriate grist for their own personal advancements.
Whether someone who isn’t Gruden cares about the results is a separate matter altogether and says a lot about the direction of the NFL moving forward.
From ESPN on Wednesday, we were provided a handy suspect list.
The best part of the MLB All-Star Game is always when the players wear microphones on the field. Because the stakes of the game are lower, fans are able to get closer to the action on the field than ever.
This year, Fox added an extra wrinkle by having Dodgers teammates Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts wear earpieces during the same inning so they could talk with each other, as well as with the broadcasters.
Rangers pitcher Nathan Eovaldi also agreed to wear a microphone during his appearance in the second inning, and Fox shared his whole showdown against Braves catcher Sean Murphy.
It doesn’t project to be the most exciting season on the field for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first year of the post-Tom Brady era. But after the team revealed some sharp throwback “Creamsicle” themed jerseys on Wednesday, fans have been flocking to social media to hop on the Bucs’ bandwagon.
The team is busting out the jerseys to honor the team approaching 50 years as an organization, deploying the team’s original color scheme of “Florida Orange,” red and white.
1. The crew for ESPN’s NBA pregame, halftime and postgame show has changed many times over the years, but the network still can’t seem to come up with the right formula to win over viewers.
It doesn’t help that TNT’s NBA coverage features one of the great studio shows of all time and probably the greatest studio show cast of all time in Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O’Neal.
However, ESPN’s NBA studio show problem isn’t just about the cast, according to Stephen A. Smith and Bill Simmons.
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These battles will go a long way to helping us understand the NFL in 2023.
Training camps around the NFL open next week, and the march to the regular season begins. We got our first look at the league’s brightest new players in rookie camps and OTAs, but it’s now that we’ll truly begin to see their potential.
The biggest question for teams around the league are the battles that will be settled on training fields around the country.
In recent days, there’s understandably been nonstop talk over the prospect of Damian Lillard—and, to a lesser extent, James Harden—being traded.
Lillard is coming off arguably his best individual season, averaging 32.2 points per game on a sparkling 56.4% effective field-goal rate, the best mark of his career. Any contender who acquires him figures to be even more in the mix for an NBA title. And even Harden, if he was to land with the Clippers or stay with the Sixers, would at least be worthy of a pause.