Rory McIlroy has announced that he will be taking a break from golf to reflect on his performance at the recent US Open. The 35-year-old missed crucial putts in the final holes, narrowly missing out on his first major win in a decade. After finishing one shot behind winner Bryson DeChambeau, McIlroy left the course…
PINEHURST, N.C. — Maybe there was a time when Bryson DeChambeau felt like an afterthought. When he made the jump to LIV Golf, slowed his mad milkshake routine, stopped streaming his workouts and started looking more like the player who won both the NCAA Division I championship and the U.S. Amateur in the same stretch,…
Carlos Alcaraz won the 2024 Roland Garros, but the final was far from a perfect match as much as the conclusion looked like it. In the third set of the 2024 French Open final, the young Spaniard was outmaneuvering one of the best players in the world, Alexander Zverev. There was intense battling, but overall,…
A busy summer didn’t prove as busy for Jessica Pegula, who missed the start of it due to injury, but now she’s back and ready to go. The American last played in the Billie Jean King Cup for the United States ahead of what was supposed to be her 2024 clay season. It was meant…
DUBLIN, Ohio — Never in my 40 years in the sports writing business has an athlete thanked me for making him cry. Until Thursday, that is. One year ago at the Memorial Tournament, PGA Tour player Billy Horschel entered the media interview area looking like the homeless guy I hand granola bars to at the…
3 Former Premier League midfielder Cesc Fabregas has strongly hinted that his former teammate at AS Monaco, Youssouf Fofana, is unlikely to join Manchester United and could be heading to another club instead. Fofana is a long-term United target and with the middle of the park an area of the pitch the Red Devils are…
(Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) The Baltimore Orioles have had some tough luck when it comes to injuries. They are currently without their closer in Felix Bautista, they had lost Dean Kremer to a strained triceps a few days ago, and now they got some horrible news on two additional starters: John Means and…
Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports Xander Bogaerts‘ first season as a second baseman hasn’t gone as planned. He’s struggled mightily at the plate thus far, and while he’s fared better defensively, on Monday he suffered a fracture in his left shoulder while diving for a ball. He could miss a couple of months, leaving the Padres…
Manchester United’s alarmingly bad luck with injuries has turned a season of hope at the start into a running nightmare. There have been more than 60 cases of a player missing a game due to injury or illness and Erik ten Hag has been at pains to point that out as a mitigating factor for…
Tyler Adams’ frustrating period on the Bournemouth sidelines is set to come to an end this weekend. Adams is expected back in the Bournemouth squad this weekend for Saturday’s English Premier League showdown with Brentford. The U.S. men’s national team midfielder had been sidelined since late-March due to a back injury, but could play a…
