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The 2024 CJ Cup Byson Nelson is back in Texas, and this year it’s offering a $9.5 million purse, with $1.71 million to the winner.
The event has landed two weeks before the PGA Championship, the second major of the season, and many top players have elected to sit this one out. Jordan Spieth, a native Texan, is the top-ranked player in the field at No. 20 and was the betting favorite at the start of the week. Mi Woo Lee, Adam Scott and Will Zalatoris are among the other big names to enter. Jason Day is the defending champion.

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No team are better equipped to have a receiver suspended than the Chiefs.
It’s a matter of “when” not “if” Rashee Rice is suspended by the NFL in the wake of his arrest for a high speed hit-and-run which resulted in a chain collision in Dallas. It’s unclear what punishment the league will hand down, with some insiders predicting it could be as much as half a season for the the second-year receiver.
Rice figured to be one of the Chiefs’ most critical offensive players in 2024.

The Kentucky Derby is one of the hardest horse races to bet because it’s unknown territory for the equine competitors. They’ve never run this far and never been part of a field this size. With 20 3-year-olds going 1¼ miles, things can get wild and weird.
But that won’t stop the betting public from trying. It might be a fool’s errand trying to hit the Derby, but it’s also a badge of honor. You have to take a swing, if only for the bragging rights if you somehow get it right. 
Accordingly, this is how I would bet $100 in the 150th Run for the Roses on Saturday at Churchill Downs.

LIV Golf is in action for the second straight week, as the tour jumped from Adelaide, Australia, to Singapore and its lush Sentosa Golf Club. LIV is once again offering a $25 million total purse, with $4 million to the individual winner and $5 million set aside for the team event.
This is LIV’s second consecutive year playing the Singapore event. Talor Gooch is the defending champion, while Brendan Steele is fresh off a win in Australia, where he became LIV’s third consecutive fist-time individual winner.

Diana Taurasi may never retire. Many expect her to retire after she plays in her sixth Olympics and 20th WNBA season this summer, but who really knows. Last year, as she turned 41, she averaged 16 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.6 rebounds, which are all numbers very close to her career averages. If she’s slowing down, you haven’t been able to see it in the box score.
It takes incredible gifts and hard work to maintain such a high level of play for such a prolonged period of time, but it also takes a certain mentality.

Andy Behrens has a fresh batch of priority adds to help give your fantasy team a boost, led by a player set to make his season debut.

For the first time in 2024, Formula One will arrive back in the United States for the third annual Miami Grand Prix. Here’s what to watch at the first of three American races on the calendar this season.
Max Verstappen may already be on his way to a third consecutive world championship, but behind the scenes, the dominant force in F1 is reaching an inflection point. The biggest domino to fall yet was this week’s announcement that renowned car designer Adrian Newey is set to depart Red Bull in early 2025 and cease his role with the F1 team immediately.

It was absolute scenes last night once again at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia for Game 6 of the first round of the NBA Playoffs – but not from 76ers fans, but rather the New York Knicks faithful.
Despite the Sixers ownership purchasing 2,000 tickets so that Knicks fans couldn’t embarrass them like they did in Game 4, Knicks fans showed up in big numbers and only got louder as the game continued.

Jack Nicklaus helped kick off the 2024 Masters tournament as one of the former champions selected to take an honorary tee shot ahead of the first tee time. It turns out he wasn’t satisifed with merely one swing at Augusta.
The golf legend spoke to reporters in Dublin, Oh. this week ahead of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village and revealed he stuck around Augusta after Scottie Scheffler won to play a few rounds. Nicklaus said he played three times and shot an 88, 90, and 91. He gave a good quote about it, too. Per Golfweek’s Todd Kelly:
“I shot 88, 90 and 91.

New York sports fans do not forget and they certainly do not forgive, and Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley was reminded of that after the Knicks bounced the 76ers from the NBA playoffs on Thursday night.
Barkley bolted from New York in March after spending his first six seasons in the NFL with the Giants. While we may be nearing two full months since he left the organization and made his way to Philly, New York fans very clearly haven’t let his exit from The Big Apple go.