NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — Justin Thomas had his caddie place hole-sized discs on every corner of the 17th green at Aronimink on Monday, all of them perched on knobs. Whether he was chipping or putting, it was a challenge. Aronimink is marked by its 180 bunkers that frame the landing ...
LAUREL, Md. (AP) — With the Triple Crown off the table, there's another bit of history that could be made in horse racing this week: Is this the most wide open Preakness ever? The morning line odds suggest it could be after Iron Honor was installed as a 9-2 favorite following Monday's ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than three decades ago, Lamar Hunt and his son Clark stood on the field inside Arrowhead Stadium, trying to pitch FIFA on the prospect that their NFL stadium could play host to World Cup games hosted by the U.S. in the summer of 1994. Their pitch back in 1990 didn't work. Or at the very least, the results took quite a while to come to fruition. But now, after the Kansas City Chiefs poured millions of dollars into altering their 53-year-old stadium so that it could fit the field dimensions required by soccer's global governing body, the dream of the Hunt ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey stood firm behind a 16-team College Football Playoff expansion Monday, indicating that a disagreement with the Big Ten — which backs doubling the current bracket to 24 teams — is lingering deep into the offseason. "That focus hasn't changed," Sankey said at the APSE Southeast Region meeting at the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. "We're open to the conversation, but there are a lot of ideas out there that have to be supported with analysis and information, not speculation." Sankey said all changes in college ...
The NCAA has issued what's becoming an annual appeal to Division I baseball coaches to not cancel nonconference midweek games to protect their teams' positioning for the national tournament. Scheduling hijinks allow teams to avoid no-win situations this time of year, so games against mid- or low-major opponents sometimes are called off because a win wouldn't help the RPI and a loss would hurt it, perhaps badly. In a memo sent to coaches last week, the Division I Baseball Oversight Subcommittee said it was concerned with the practice of canceling games for reasons other than inclement ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said the Iran ceasefire is on “life support” after rejecting Tehran’s latest proposal, which officials said included some nuclear concessions. Trump also proposed suspending the federal gas tax to help with higher ...
