Beau Welling admits he’s quirky. He embraces it. Stop Welling — a golf course architect who helped his pal Tiger Woods put the finishing touches on both highly acclaimed Bluejack National outside Houston and Payne’s Valley at Big Cedar Lodge near Branson, Missouri — and you’re likely to get an earful on a topic that…
Scottie Scheffler doffs his cap after winning the Travelers Championship. When the PGA Tour gets around to releasing its 2025 schedule, perhaps it should reclassify its special events to call them Scottie Scheffler signature events. The last of the year’s eight signature events concluded Sunday at the Travelers Championship and, aside from the smoke bomb-toting…
(Photo by Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire) There is no NFL pressure cooker quite like the Dallas Cowboys, and even three straight trips to the playoffs and two division crowns cannot ease the strain. Being unceremoniously ushered out of the playoffs for three consecutive seasons may be enough for most franchises, but it spells doom under…
Toronto Maple Leafs’ defenseman Mark Giordano appears to still be interested in playing hockey. The 40-year-old is the NHL’s oldest active player and has no plans to retire after this season. His agent, Rich Winters told the Toronto Star that Giordano plans on playing in the NHL for “a couple more years.” “He clearly wants…
Yesterday, I made a case about why keeping TJ Brodie around might not have been a bad idea for the Toronto Maple Leafs as a depth defenseman. In his post today, Jon Steitzer made a similar case for Mark Giordano. There’s no doubt that Giordano, at 40 years old, is past his prime. However, the…
The 2023-24 Belgian Pro League is a season that Mark McKenzie and Genk will want to forget, but McKenzie has a new opportunity with the U.S. men’s national team to focus on. McKenzie is with the USMNT ahead of the 2024 Copa America group stage, which starts for the Americans on Sunday night. The former…
The Rothesday Open in Nottingham The Rothesday Open in Nottingham has had to contend with an on-off schedule due to wet weather all week as it tries to complete the WTA 250 event on time, but it was bad light that suspended the all-British semi-final between Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter on Saturday evening. Earlier…
The greens at Pinehurst No 2 have been unforgiving and have handed out some incredibly bad breaks. Mark Hubbard must have thought he’d hit a great approach with his shot pitching a yard or so from the hole and bouncing past it. Inches from going in, the ball gripped and spun on the third bounce…
The 16 qualifiers were finally determined on Friday, when the remaining eight 3rd-round matches were played, sending Sara Errani, Katie Volynets and Tamara Zidansek, amongst others, into the main draw of the French Open. Errani, a former Roland Garros finalist from Italy who finished as the runner-up to Maria Sharapova at Roland Garros 12 years…
Patrick Williams, TheAHL.com Features Writer Game 3 of the Central Division Finals showed just how much Egor Afanasyev can take over a game. The 23-year-old forward is mobile enough to haul a 6-foot-4, 209-pound frame to open areas of the ice. He’s smart, anticipating and seeing the ice well. He also possesses a deceptive shot,…
