Golf ratings are on a heater the last two weeks.
After Rory McIlroy’s Masters victory produced an eye-popping viewership figure last week, Justin Thomas breaking his winless drought and capturing the RBC Heritage in a playoff Sunday had another stellar figure for CBS and the PGA Tour.
The tally: 4.36 million people tuned in to the final round at Harbour Town Golf Links, which ended in a playoff with Thomas burying a birdie putt to beat Andrew Novak. The number is a 103 percent increase over 2024, which had a weather delay during the final round and finished Monday.
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Merab Dvalishvili doesn’t see a point in the UFC risking a superfight between Ilia Topuria and Islam Makhachev.
UFC lightweight champion Makhachev (27-1 MMA, 16-1 UFC) is not sold on former featherweight champion Topuria (16-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) as his next title challenger and wants to see him earn the opportunity first.
Bantamweight champion Dvalishvili argues that Topuria, a fellow Georgian fighter, has vacated his 145-pound title for a move up to lightweight, so it won’t be considered as Makhachev fighting a smaller guy.
The 2025 NFL Draft takes place this week in Green Bay, Wisconsin, from April 24 to 26. Over three days and seven rounds, the next crop of rookies will hear their names called to become a part of the National Football League.
The Oklahoma Sooners lost a total of 19 players from their 2024 roster to exhausted eligibility and/or the NFL Draft. A total of 17 of those players (minus offensive lineman Branson Hickman and long snapper Ethan Lane) have declared for the draft and have spent the past few months trying to prove to NFL GMs and coaches that they deserve to be selected this week.
Purdue landed one of its top portal targets on Tuesday, as former Eastern Kentucky offensive lineman Tyrell Green committed to the Boilermakers on the heels of his official visit to campus, per Rivals National Transfer Portal analyst Adam Friedman.
The class of 2024 recruit hit the college ranks running as he became a Freshman All-American honoree as a true freshman last season. Green started 10 of 13 games played for the Colonels at right guard and did not allow a sack in over 600 snaps.
More troubling reports have emerged regarding Justin Blackmon’s recent public intoxication arrest over the weekend.
The former fifth-overall pick of the Jacksonville Jaguars during the 2012 NFL Draft was charged with public intoxication, according to the Payne County, Okla. Sheriff’s Office. Oklahoma State University Police were dispatched to a report of a “large black male” lying on the ground at 1:32 am Saturday.
According to TMZ, when officers arrived, Blackmon had wandered into a nearby campus building.
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Jalen Brunson can’t stop flopping in the NBA Playoffs, and everyone is calling him out
Jalen Brunson isn’t one of the biggest, quickest, or most explosive guards in the NBA, but he’s become one of the best because no one is craftier. Brunson has faced skeptics as he’s climbed the basketball world, going from an underrated recruit to a college basketball legend at Villanova to a second round draft pick who the Dallas Mavericks didn’t want long-term.
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Quinn Ewers was a very rich young man long before becoming a star at Texas.
Ewers was an outstanding QB for the Longhorns for three years after spending his freshman year at Ohio State.
The former five-star recruit made waves when he left Carroll Senior High School after his junior year to enroll early with the Buckeyes.
Players enrolling a semester early in the spring is very common. Players leaving an entire year early to play college football is unheard of, and fans now know what motivated the decision.
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