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The LIV Golf League’s season-ending team championship will be played at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami for the second straight year.

Defending champion Novak Djokovic was temporarily knocked off course by Hubert Hurkacz but quickly got back in the groove on Monday to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals.

A former Northwestern football player on Sunday detailed his hazing allegations that sparked a university-commissioned investigation and said Pat Fitzgerald should no longer be the coach of the program.

Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another incarcerated person at a federal prison in Florida, a source confirmed to ESPN.

At a time when high school recruiting is seen as far less important due to the annual influx of names in the transfer portal, several college coaches Sports Illustrated spoke with at Nike’s EYBL Peach Jam tournament feel the current recruiting calendar and game times within the live periods are only further hurting limiting high school players’ recruitments.
The 2023–24 college basketball season projects to be the first one ever during which more than 50% of points nationally are scored by transfers.

Saturday’s WNBA All-Star Game might be without two of its featured players after the Storm’s Jewell Loyd and the Mystics’ Elena Delle Donne suffered injuries over the weekend.
Loyd, who was picked for former Seattle teammate Breanna Stewart’s team, is slated to be a starting guard for Team Stewart. She suffered a sprained ankle in the fourth quarter during Saturday’s game against Stewart’s Liberty. Loyd didn’t return to the game after suffering the injury.
After the game, Seattle coach Noelle Quinn said the severity of the injury was unclear at the time.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — A PGA TOUR logo is seen after play was suspended due to severe storms during THE PLAYERS Championship held at TPC Sawgrass. | Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images
PGA Tour officials will be in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday for a hearing with the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
On Tuesday, two PGA Tour officials will testify before the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI).
The hearing will air live on Golf Channel beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern.

SI’s MMA Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes runs every week.
Alexander Volkanovski is ready to make another run at the lightweight title.
And for good reason. He knows his history.
The 34-year-old Volkanovski, who turns 35 in September, is astutely aware that an expiration date exists on his reign of dominance. It was easy to dismiss that fact this past weekend as he completely and utterly controlled Yair Rodríguez at UFC 290, but it does not change the inevitable.
A time will arrive when Volkanovski loses his speed or gets caught–or even is beat by a better opponent.

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This has been a remarkable debut for Eubanks at Wimbledon
As far as debuts go, this has been a remarkable one for Christopher Eubanks at Wimbledon.
The unseeded American, playing in his first-ever Wimbledon tournament, is through to the quarter-finals after upsetting fifth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas 3-6, 7-6(5), 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. This marks the first time that Eubanks has advanced to the quarters in a Grand Slam event.
Eubanks, the 43rd-ranked player in the world, is on a bit of a run during the grass-court season.

How long will it take Northwestern to determine if the right punishment was handed down to Pat Fitzgerald, the second time around? After a weekend full of questionable decisions and explosive allegations, President Michael Schill finds himself at a crossroads just one year into the job.
The school needs to be transparent through the rest of this ordeal. They need to be releasing what they have in-regards to the alleged hazing and telling the truth. What we saw this past weekend was a school hoping to skate through this hazing scandal by slapping a two-week suspension on its head coach.