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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan addresses the media and employees during the PGA TOUR Global Home press conference at TPC Sawgrass on January 19, 2018. | Photo by Tracy Wilcox/PGA TOUR
The PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund executed their framework agreement on May 30, 2023. It was made public Monday.
The framework agreement between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) was made public Monday, per a report from The Athletic.

The Bills are set to open their brand new stadium in 2026 after a lengthy negotiation to reach an agreement that their new home would stay in western New York. However, Erie County exec Mark Poloncarz believes that the team would have relocated if the organization had to build the stadium itself.
The Buffalo franchise is co-owned by husband and wife Terry and Kim Pegula and Poloncarz broke down how negotiations went. 
“The NFL is a business,” Poloncarz told Sports Business Journal.  “You’re negotiating with one of 32 of the owners of the business.

The WNBA’s two superteams will go head to head for the first time this regular season when the Liberty travel to Las Vegas to take on the Aces. Thursday’s matchup will feature this year’s two All-Star captains, the Aces’ A’ja Wilson and the Liberty’s Breanna Stewart, in a game many predict could preview the WNBA Finals.

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LSU may have won the 2023 College World Series title on Monday night, but Tigers fans also won an important contest this week in Omaha, Neb.: the CWS Jell-O Shot Challenge.
LSU fans dominated the competition against seven other schools at Omaha’s Rocco’s Pizza, the bar and restaurant where the contest is annually held. The Tigers purchased a record-shattering 68,888 Jell-O shots during the span of the College World Series. 
The next closest amount purchased by a specific team’s fandom was 7,622 bought by Wake Forest supporters.

New York Mets billionaire owner Steve Cohen has had enough of his team’s trainwreck of a season and will now address the fans on what he plans to do about it.
In a tweet, Cohen alerted fans that Wednesday he would be holding a press conference and telling fans that they will ‘get it’ from him. Not sure exactly what ‘it’ means but it sounds like Cohen, who Mets fans admirably call Uncle Steve, is pretty pissed.

I will be doing a press conference tomorrow before the game. You will get it from me straight.

ESPN and Disney discriminated against Sage Steele.
The corporation admitted so in offering her $501,000 to settle her lawsuit against the company for violating her First Amendment and Connecticut free-speech rights.
Front Office Sports reported the figure on Monday in an obvious leak from Disney to frame Steele as a greedy wicked witch.
ESPN/Disney took the same approach last summer in a leak to the Washington Post by telling the outlet that Steele receives $3 million a year, the most of any woman at the company.

Many an elite athlete has drawn scorn for the use, or suspected use, of performance-enhancing drugs in recent decades: Barry Bonds in baseball, Lance Armstrong in cycling, Marion Jones in track and field and so on.

The NBA’s attention now turns to the offseason with a few notable names at the top of an otherwise lackluster class of impactful free agent players.

When the Rangers signed Jacob deGrom, they expected him to carry the staff. After an unfortunate injury, other signings have stepped up to lead.

No. 88 will be prohibited for use among soccer players in Italy due to a new initiative aimed at combatting antisemitism. 
The rule, which was coordinated by the Italian government and the Italian soccer federation, was announced Tuesday and includes the addition of a code of ethics in accordance with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, according to the Associated Press. Additionally, in the case of fans singing antisemitic chants, the initiative calls for games to be suspended.
No. 88 has been used by extremist groups as a numerical code for “Heil Hitler.