[ad_1] DUBLIN, Ohio — When the PGA Tour designated this year’s Memorial Tournament as a signature event with a smaller field, Thursday’s leaderboard was probably what it sought. Only 73 players competed at Muirfield Village Golf Club, about 50 fewer than in the past. The cream of the crop rose to the top right away….
[ad_1] Manchester United’s James Scanlon has had a whirlwind rise in the last few months. The 17-year-old played a vital role in the under-18s’ wonderful season, playing 12 games and contributing eight goals and three assists. He has been rewarded for his strong season with his first professional contract at the end of last month….
[ad_1] Iga Swiatek celebrated her 23rd birthday in some style at the French Open on Friday, where she is bidding to win her 4th title, and 3rd in a row, while Coco Gauff, Marketa Vondrousova and Ons Jabeur were among those also to make it into the Last 16 in the top half of the…
[ad_1] Coco Gauff is currently ranked World No. 3, but her current points total would have been sufficient to top the WTA year-end rankings in multiple seasons in recent years. Gauff is competing at the 2024 Roland Garros, where she will contest Thursday’s highly anticipated semifinal showdown against top seed Iga Swiatek. Despite the lopsided…
[ad_1] The Hershey Bears dominated Cleveland in a 6-2 victory on Tuesday, taking a 3-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference Finals. Cleveland will try to avoid elimination as they host Game 4 on Thursday. After Cleveland erased a 2-0 deficit, Hershey exploded with three goals in the final 2:46 of the second period. Alex…
[ad_1] Lexi Thompson has announced her plans to retire from full-time competition at the end of the 2024 season. Before World No. 1 Nelly Korda began her dominant run, 29-year-old Thompson had been the face of American golf for a decade. Thompson turned professional at age 15 and won her first LPGA event at 16,…
[ad_1] (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images) The New York Yankees have been enjoying some really impressive performances by their offense in recent games. Aaron Judge is officially back from his early-season slump, Juan Soto never really stopped hitting, and Giancarlo Stanton is also hitting blasts left and right. Early-season star Anthony Volpe is catching fire…
[ad_1] By Randy Walker @TennisPublisher It would have been one of the biggest Cinderella stories ever in sports…. But it was still pretty awesome. Anastasiia Lopata was the No. 4 player on the University of Georgia’s national runner-up team and, heading into the NCAA women’s singles championships, was the No. 9 alternate to get into…
[ad_1] Everything has changed for Taylor Pendrith over the past two weeks. Pendrith won The CJ Cup Byron Nelson on May 5 for his first-ever PGA Tour victory, then tied for 10th at the Wells Fargo Championship on Sunday. Those performances lifted him from 91st on the FedEx Cup standings up to No. 30 and…
[ad_1] The ink is dry! Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid will meet in the most highly anticipated match on the European calendar — the UEFA Champions League (UCL) final — at Wembley Stadium on June 1. Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Bayern Munich did their best to overcome the finalists in the two-legged semi-finals, but the…
