Top-ranked Scottie Scheffler enters next week’s US Open with three victories in four starts, including a third career major title, and will be the man to beat at Oakmont.The 28-year-old American won last month’s PGA Championship at Quail Hollow after capturing Masters green jackets in 2022 and 2024 and has three top-seven finishes in his past …
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Coco Gauff said a maiden French Open trophy was “one I really wanted” after securing the title with victory over Aryna Sabalenka on Saturday.The 21-year-old secured a hard-fought 6-7 (5/7), 6-2, 6-4 win over the world number one in difficult, windy conditions at Roland Garros.”I felt like this is one I really wanted, because I …
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World number one Scottie Scheffler can expect a daunting challenge when he vies to extend his recent run of success at the 125th US Open at formidable Oakmont.The famed 7,372-yard, par-70 course in suburban Pittsburgh, known for dense rough and lightning-fast greens, will host the US Golf Association’s showcase event for a record 10th time.”You’re …
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Brad Marchand scored a breakaway goal at 8:04 of the second overtime, lifting the Florida Panthers to a 5-4 victory over the Edmonton Oilers that leveled the NHL Stanley Cup Final at one game apiece on Friday.Marchand’s game-winner in Edmonton was his second goal of the contest.His first had given the Panthers a 4-3 lead …
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Nine-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky notched another impressive victory at the US Swimming Championships on Friday, clocking 3min 58.56sec to win the 400m freestyle to add another event to her 2025 World Championships programme.Ledecky, who had already punched her ticket to the World Championships in Singapore with a victory in the 800m free, was under …
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Cameron Champ, making the most of his last-gasp entry as an alternate, seized the lead at the Canadian Open on Friday as Rory McIlroy crashed out of his last US Open tuneup.Champ fired four birdies in a four-under-par 66 to seize a two-stroke lead at TPC Toronto Osprey Valley, where world number two McIlroy posted …
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South Korea’s Lee Il-hee unfurled a trio of closing birdies to grab a share of the first-round lead at the LPGA Shoprite Classic in New Jersey on Friday.The 36-year-old journeywoman fired an eight-under-par 63 to join the United States’ Elizabeth Szokol at the top of the leaderboard at the Seaview Hotel & Golf Club course …
American Trayvon Bromell set the fastest time over the 100m this season as he won the Rome Diamond League in 9.84 seconds on Friday.Bromell, a two-time world outdoor bronze medallist and 2016 world indoor champion, dominated the field, with compatriot Fred Kerley coming in fifth in 10.06sec.Cameroon’s Emmanuel Eseme (9.99) and Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala (10.01) …
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Two months after being named the NBA’s “most overrated player” in an anonymous poll of his peers, Tyrese Haliburton is having the last laugh.The 25-year-old point guard delivered the latest in a series of game-winning moments on Thursday with a last-gasp basket as the Indiana Pacers stunned the Oklahoma City Thunder 111-110 in game one …
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Los Angeles 2028 Olympics organizers said Thursday the Games will not be impacted by President Donald Trump’s ban on citizens from 12 countries from visiting the United States.Casey Wasserman, chairman of LA28, the 2028 Olympics organizing committee, told a press conference the US government had made it “very clear” that Trump’s travel directive would not …
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