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BLAINE, Minn. — Lee Hodges plays an approach shot on the 14th hole during the third round of the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities on July 29, 2023. | Photo by David Berding/Getty Images
Hodges holds a five-shot lead heading into the final round of the 3M Open. He has yet to win a PGA Tour event.
Lee Hodges has eviscerated TPC Twin Cities through 54 holes, as he holds a commanding five-shot lead over J.T. Poston heading into the final round of the 3M Open.
Yet, he finds himself in a position he has never been in.
Hodges has not won a PGA Tour event, either.

It’s the biggest boxing match in years. Two undefeated champions with a combined record of 67-0 and 52 knockouts vying for the undisputed welterweight title.

One of college football’s best rivalries will experience even more juice after the Auburn Tigers landed one of the best wide receivers in the 2024 class.
6-foot-3, 205-pound five-star prospect Perry Thompson flipped his commitment from Alabama to ‘War Eagle’ in unforgettable fashion on Saturday.
Thompson, the No. 2-ranked player in the state of Alabama and No. 14-ranked player overall by 247Sports, becomes one of the highest-ranked commits in program history.

Few things in sports have to be scarier than losing brakes while behind the wheel of a racecar, and that’s exactly what one NASCAR Xfinity Series driver dealt with on Saturday.
While the Cup Series is doing some short-track racing at Richmond, the Xfinity folks were in Wisconsin for some road course fun at Road America.
Chandler Smith is the driver of the No. 16 Chevrolet for Kaulig Racing. During Saturday’s Road America 180 he was cruising down a straight when something flew off of his car.
The NBC broadcast team believed it was a brake rotor.

The New York Mets on Saturday agreed to trade pitcher Max Scherzer, who has a no-trade clause and is 9-4 this season, to the Texas Rangers, pending Scherzer’s approval, a source told ESPN’s Jeff Passan, confirming multiple reports.

Nine years after last taking the field for the 49ers, franchise legend Frank Gore has reached an agreement to return to San Francisco in a front office role ahead of the 2023 season.
Gore, San Francisco’s all-time leading rusher, will work alongside general manager John Lynch and his staff in a football advisor capacity, the team announced Saturday. The former star running back also commemorated the news by sharing a picture on Instagram of his contract signing.

Here’s how to watch Saturday’s fight, UFC 291: Dustin Poirier vs. Justin Gaethje 2.

BRIDGEND, Wales — Padraig Harrington during The Senior Open at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club on July 28, 2023. | Photo by Richard Martin-Roberts/Getty Images
Padraig Harrington, one of the best links golfers in the world, sits one stroke behind German Alex Cejka heading into Sunday’s final round.
Padraig Harrington is a master of links golf, especially in windy conditions.
On a gusty day when nobody broke par at The Senior Open at Royal Porthcawl in Wales, Harrington made an electrifying eagle on the 18th hole to shoot up the leaderboard.

Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell was spotted packing his lower lip full of tobacco, and in the eyes of many, it cemented his place as quite possibly the NFL’s most coach-like coach.
A camera scanning Lions training camp landed on Campbell. He took a can out of his pocket and crammed a wad of chewing tobacco in his mouth.
He flicked the excess onto the practice field and those who

this man was born to coach ball pic.twitter.com/aPoThSwYPg
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) July 29, 2023

I don’t know if I’d call it a thing of beauty, but the people ate it up.

The Mercury said it would work with Griner on a timetable to return.