Viktor Hovland may not have a major championship under his belt (yet) but after the clinic he put on to win the Tour Championship, the man has cemented himself not only as a certified killer but a superstar as well.
Scottie Scheffler knows all too well how it feels to lose to Hovland. While he began the Tour Championship with a two-shot lead over Young Hov, he ended up getting lapped by the 25-year-old by a whopping 18 shots in Atlanta.
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The final Grand Slam of the tennis season is here
The final Grand Slam of the season is here, as the tennis world descends upon New York City.
On the women’s side, Iga Swiatek enters the tournament atop the WTA rankings, and the defending champion remains the betting favorite. But Aryna Sabalenka has closed the gap in those rankings, and enters the U.S. Open as the No. 2 seed.
Then there is Coco Gauff, who is seeking her first Grand Slam title. Gauff is coming off a win at Cincinnati, and could be primed to make a deep run at the U.S. Open.
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Bryce is the same guy he was at Alabama, and that’s amazing news for the Panthers.
Bryce Young’s first preseason is in the books, and Panthers fans should be very, very excited. The No. 1 pick in the 2023 NFL Draft quietly played some of the best football we’ve ever seen from a first-year quarterback in preseason, but there’s a reason you probably didn’t about it: It never materialized in the box score.
Across Carolina’s three preseason games, Young played what was tantamount to one full game of football.
After three seasons working as an analyst on ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown, Booger McFarland was not listed on the show’s new cast when it was announced last week.
However, it sounds like the network has found a new role for McFarland. According to New York Post’s Andrew Marchand, McFarland will join ESPN’s new Monday studio show, which will discuss NFL and college football storylines. He will reportedly join former Arizona State coach Herm Edwards.
The show is set to replace ESPN’s NFL Rewind. Marchand reported that SportsCenter’s Michael Eaves will host.
NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans Saints quarterback Jameis Winston did not endear himself to LSU fans on Sunday night.
His alma mater Florida State plays LSU Sunday night (7:30 p.m., ABC) in Orlando, Florida, in the season opener for both teams. It is the game of the year so far in college football as it is the first top 10 matchup of the season. Winston’s Seminoles are ranked No. 8, and the Tigers are at No. 5. LSU is a 2.5-point favorite.
Team USA played a more focused, cleaner and overall better game in beating Greece, 109-81, to move to 2-0 at the FIBA World Cup.
There is “continued momentum” for the ACC to add Cal, Stanford and SMU, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel, with a decision on expansion expected in the coming days.
Anybody keeping score at Sunday’s Giants–Braves game got to write something in their scorebook few others have.
San Francisco reliever Scott Alexander entered the game in a jam in the top of the fifth inning. After Alexander allowed a one-run single, Atlanta had runners on second and third with one out and the top of the order coming up. But Alexander was able to get out of the inning thanks to a strange, rare double play.
Alexander got Ronald Acuña Jr. to hit a weak grounder between first and second. Giants first baseman J.D.
Former teammates Luis Arráez and Ildemaro Vargas shared a sweet moment during Sunday’s game between the Miami Marlins and Washington Nationals.
Arráez and Vargas are both Venezuelan-born second basemen, and the two even spent a season together with the Minnesota Twins back in 2020. While they no longer play with one another every day, the bromance appears to be very much alive.
During the first inning of Sunday’s game, Vargas drew a heart in the infield dirt for Arráez, then left a handful of Double Bubble gum inside it.
Nikola Jokić finds himself occupying the title of top dog in the NBA at the moment but you wouldn’t know it from watching him off the court. The Nuggets center is as humble as they come and fans took notice when he didn’t get too emotional or excited after winning the Western Conference finals or NBA Finals.
Charles Barkley noticed the same unassuming attitude and said it reminded him of a another big man superstar who acted like it was just another day at the office.
“He reminds me of Tim Duncan,” Barkley said on The Bill Simmons Podcast.