The PGA Tour season kicks off in Hawaii for the first time in 10 years, and it's doing so with the first of eight "signature events" slated for the new 2024 calendar season. Previously reserved strictly for winners from the previous season, the field now is open to all players who finished within the top 50 in the previous season's FedEx Cup standings. There's a $20 million purse at stake, which has drawn every winner from last season other than Rory McIlroy and LIV Golf defector Jon Rahm to Oahu. The event starts Thursday at the Plantation Course at Kapalua. Scoring is always low at this event, and our golf experts provide their favorite prop picks along with best bets to kick off 2024 with a victory. THE SENTRY Location: Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii, Jan. 4-7 Cour…
Roy Hodgson has asked Crystal Palace supporters who accused the club’s owners of lacking of ambition to be “careful”, in the leadup to the derby with Brighton on Monday night.
Following defeats against Leeds and Burnley and given growing uncertainty over Hodgson’s future, a banner urging Palace to “restore the pride, ambition and vision” was displayed briefly outside the training ground in Beckenham last week. The former England manager’s contract is due to expire at the end of the season and Hodgson said he has yet to discuss a renewal with the club’s chairman, Steve Parish.
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Erik ten Hag has said he will be Cristiano Ronaldo’s friend or teacher depending on what is required to manage him productively for the team, but the Manchester United manager has concerns about the 37-year-old’s fitness.
“I will be his friend and sometimes I will be his teacher. It depends on the situation,” said Ten Hag of the striker who failed to secure his exit from the club in the summer transfer window. However the manager is troubled by Ronaldo missing most of pre-season because of a family matter.
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“As we all know he didn’t have the pre-season and you cannot miss the pre-season,” said Ten Hag. “It is a …
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Springtime in Dublin. And then Germany. Such was the schedule planned out for Jürgen Klopp, for Liverpool to glide to the Euro Vase final and celebrate nine years of Jurg greatness with a night down Copperface Jack’s, cuisine supplied by Abra Kebabra. All after swatting aside whatever meek Euro pretenders LFC met in the final. Xabi Alonso’s Leverkusen, hopefully, to show Xabi what he’s missing. Hotels have been booked across Ireland on 22 and 23 May for months, non-refundable, naturally.
So yeah, Atalanta. Gian Piero Gasperini, the rather good manager of a rather good team that’s been punching above their weight in Serie A and beyond for a good few years. They were rather writt…
Everybody in fantasy football has a draft list. I have two because, let’s face it, with the clock winding down, the heart can overpower the brain.That’s why it’s important to have that second list: Your dream team. A wish list of guys you want to remind yourself to consider before making any selection from your standard draft list.Because fantasy football is designed to be fun. Winning helps assure that. But winning with a team you enjoy watching is a twin killing.That doesn’t mean go out and draft a bunch of guys from your favorite team. One will suffice … especially if he’s on my list of 2024’s Desirable Dozen:QB C.J. Stroud, TexansThe Texans have so many weapons, it’s hard to project who will outperform who. Chances are, it’ll be someone different each week, and that�…
Robert Griffin III is at it again with talk of a comeback to the NFL. Griffin is turning to the worst possible destination in the minds of most Washington Commanders fans — he says he’d love to make his return with the Dallas Cowboys. Seeing how Griffin plays a similar style to Dak Prescott, it would make a little sense were the Cowboys to kick the tires. It makes a ton of sense for Griffin since he grew up in Texas. That part I get. I also get that there’s very little chance of this dream of Robert’s coming true. But Griffin didn’t stop at the Cowboys. Oh no. He also named the Atlanta Falcons and Chicago Bears as teams he’d love to play for. “ Going back home to Texas with the Dallas Cowboys, I know a lot of Washington fans don’t want to hear that, but that would be a g…
It was a miserable year full of miserable things. Here is some stuff from 2017 that we hope stays in 2017. Facebook The problem is not really Facebook, I should say. Facebook is absolutely fucking awful—stupid and smug and kind of blithely anti-human and disgustingly craven even by the prevailing standards of triumphal circa-now ultra-capitalism—but it is terrible in large part because people are terrible, or at least terribly lonely and scared and terribly unwilling to do anything about either. Facebook just happens to be the place where this is most annoyingly apparent; it’s the social network that old people are comfortable with, and the one that most everyone is on, and it’s all outwardly clean-looking enough that it seems normal relative to the rest of the social internet. It…
In case you missed our insightful and thought-provoking live-blog, the 2015 NBA Draft happened tonight, and, after what seemed like an eternity, the first round is finally over. The Minnesota Timberwolves kicked things off by selecting Kentucky center Karl-Anthony Towns, a move that was pretty much locked up a month ago. But because it’s Minnesota—which is a mystery state, apparently—nobody really cared. All eyes were on the New York Knicks and whether they would take the obvious best player, Frank Kaminsky, any of the available dual-threat wings, or go with a less popular foreign selection. Thankfully for those of us who love basketball and hate the Knicks, Phil Jackson and the Melos opted for the latter. Aside from the Knicks—who ended up doing something actually awesome…
The folks in charge of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London released their logo yesterday and it's … uh … a major Tetris disaster? A sketch Picasso made on a bar napkin while drunk? No one seems quite sure. "It won't be to be everybody's taste immediately but it's a brand that we genuinely believe can be a hard working brand which builds on pretty much everything we said in Singapore about reaching out and engaging young people, which is where our challenge is over the next five years," said Sebastian Coe, London 2012 chairman. Yep: That logo is totally what the kids like. We can't wait to see what the Olympic mascot looks like. We're guessing this. London Unveils Logo For 2012 Games [BBC Sport] (And the anti-logo contingent is already pe…
There was a weird moment during last night’s game between the Saints and Falcons, when Saints head coach Sean Payton did some premature gloating. With his team up 17-10 and 12:30 left to play, Payton gave the “Choke!” sign to Falcons running back Devonta Freeman after Freeman had run for no gain near the Saints’ sideline: It was an odd gesture—I suppose maybe it was a reference to last year’s Super Bowl—done at an odd time, because the Falcons went on to score on that very same drive. They’d eventually win the game 20-17. Freeman was asked about the incident after the game, and he admitted that he noticed Payton’s gesture but that he didn’t let it get in his head, noting that Payton “ain’t from where I’m from”: Payton, on the other hand, tried to play dumb …