Cameron Young fired a bogey-free 64, eight-under par, to seize a two-stroke lead after Thursday’s opening round of the Tiger Woods-hosted Hero World Challenge golf tournament.The 27-year-old American, the 2022 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year who has yet to win a PGA title, sank eight birdie putts to grab the lead in the 20-player …
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Lionel Messi and Inter Miami will kick off FIFA’s new 32-team Club World Cup when the Major League Soccer side take on Egypt’s Al Ahly in the June 15 opener, the draw for the tournament revealed on Thursday.Brazilian team Palmeiras and Portugal’s Porto complete Group A alongside Argentina World Cup winner Messi, whose Miami team …
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Two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City, kept hungry by a season filled with narrow triumphs, will try and clinch an NFL division crown with a victory on Sunday.The Chiefs (11-1) have already sealed a playoff berth but are pressed to keep winning by the Buffalo Bills (10-2), who own a tie-breaker edge thanks to …
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Houston Rockets head coach Ime Udoka was fined $50,000, Rockets forward Tari Eason was fined $35,000 and Rockets center Alperen Sengun was fined $15,000 by the NBA, the league announced on Thursday.The incident which prompted all the punishments took place with 1:52 to play in the fourth quarter of Houston’s 120-111 loss at Sacramento on …
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Miami guard Tyler Herro starred as the Heat humbled LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers 134-93 on Wednesday, leaving the Lakers looking for answers after their biggest defeat of the NBA season.Herro scored 21 of his 31 points in the third quarter and finished with nine of the Heat’s franchise record-equalling 24 three-pointers.Jimmy Butler …
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US ski star Mikaela Shiffrin said Wednesday that she’s “starting to feel a little bit more human” after suffering a puncture wound in a giant slalom crash but confirmed she won’t race at Beaver Creek, Colorado, this month.”This is another fairly ambiguous injury and really hard to put a timeline of when I’ll be either …
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Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence was placed on the NFL’s injured reserve list on Wednesday with a concussion suffered in a loss to Houston last Sunday, the team announced.The 25-year-old signal caller was injured in a 23-20 home loss to the Texans, departing after taking a violent hit from Houston’s Azeez Al-Shaair that sparked a …
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Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant has suffered a sprained left ankle and will miss the next week of the NBA season before being reevaluated, according to multiple reports on Wednesday.Durant suffered the injury in the second quarter of Tuesday’s 104-93 victory over San Antonio when he stepped on the foot of the Spurs’ Julian Champagnie.ESPN and …
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World Athletics president Sebastian Coe insisted Wednesday that he wanted Michael Johnson’s four-meet Grand Slam Track series to be a success that adds lustre to the sport.Former Olympic sprint champion Johnson’s Grand Slam makes its debut next year with four three-day, track-only events in Kingston, Jamaica, Miami, Philadelphia and Los Angeles.Johnson’s series is widely seen …
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The LPGA and US Golf Association (USGA) announced updated gender policies on Wednesday requiring players be born female or transition before reaching male puberty for women’s tournaments.Both new policies regarding transgender athletes will begin with the 2025 season.The LPGA changes aimed at settling transgender competitive fairness issues, were informed by a working group of top …
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