The contributions of U.S. Army Chief-Of-Staff General George C. Marshall. PINEHURST, NORTH CAROLINA | The most important man in Pinehurst this week may be someone with whom you are not familiar. The most important man in Pinehurst, or MIMIP, is General George C Marshall, the architect of the Marshall Plan, which began the economic recovery…
(Photo by Meg Oliphant/Getty Images) When talking about the 2024 Los Angeles Dodgers, many people focus on Mookie Betts and Shohei Ohtani. It makes perfect sense: they are the ones doing the heavy lifting offensively. However, they haven’t been alone: other hitters and position players are helping them. One of those unsung heroes has been…
(Photo by Mike Comer/Getty Images) The Carolina Panthers did their rookie No. 1 pick Bryce Young a disservice last season by surrounding him with the worst skill position players in the league, and improving the wide receiver position was a major area of focus for the franchise this offseason. The Panthers traded for Diontae Johnson…
(Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images) This year’s NFL Draft is loaded with quarterbacks who have the ability to become Pro Bowlers and franchise cornerstones, and it has led to lots of excitement. One of those quarterbacks is Drake Maye out of the University of North Carolina, who was officially taken No. 3 overall…
O.J. Simpson, who died on Wednesday at 76, lived a life that made him one of the most famous people in America, as well as, at various times, the most celebrated and most reviled. A Heisman Trophy winner when he played football at the University of Southern California, he reached superstar status as a running…
LOS ANGELES — Alabama freshman Jarin Stevenson was sitting in a classroom as a junior at Seaforth High School in Pittsboro, North Carolina, around this time last year. Months later, he decided to speed up his timeline as a college basketball player by reclassifying to join the Crimson Tide for the 2023-24 season. Stevenson had…
X/@ASUNSports No. 6 seed North Alabama stunned No. 3 seed Lipscomb 77-75 in the second round of the ASUN Tournament on Tuesday when KJ Johnson capped a heroic finishing stretch with a buzzer-beater against his former team. Johnson’s make came after Lipscomb’s Owen McCormack drilled a game-tying 3-pointer with 4.3 seconds left. Without a timeout,…
Wyndham Clark chose his legacy over a big-money move to LIV Golf. The US Open champion was asked why he stayed with the PGA Tour after being named the winner of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am which was halted after 54 holes by bad weather. Rumours started in the New Year linking Clark to the…
Golfers can play for decades and not get near a hole-in-one. I may or may not be one of them. Navaporn Soontreeyapas isn’t one of us, to her relief I imagine, as she achieved golfing immortality at the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific Championship in Thailand. Soontreeyapas graced Siam Country Club with her first ace on the…
Rory McIlroy defended his title at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic and made a little history, too. The 34-year-old Northern Irishman won the event for a fourth time on Sunday at Emirates Golf Club in the UAE, the first to do so in DP World Tour history. McIlroy was 10 shots back entering Saturday’s third…
