Month: December 2024

Associated Press Dec 20, 2024, 12:59 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Derek Sprague has been selected as the next CEO at the PGA of America, the first time a club professional has been chosen to lead the organization in nearly 20 years. Sprague, who spent 25 years at his hometown Malone Golf Club in New
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Associated Press Dec 20, 2024, 01:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — The Baltimore Orioles left about $2.1 million unspent from their 2024 international signing bonus pool allotment and the Los Angeles Dodgers around $1.9 million in a year there was speculation Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki would be available. Major League Baseball’s international
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Associated Press Dec 20, 2024, 01:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LIV Golf is looking younger as it adds new players to the team rosters, the most recent Friday when the Cleeks announced it was signing Fredrik Kjetterup, 24, of Denmark, who finished among the top 10 in the PGA Tour University ranking at Florida
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Dec 20, 2024, 05:57 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Australian Open will embrace one of the fastest growing sports in the world when it hosts the inaugural AO Pickleball Slam on the final weekend of next month’s tennis major with $100,000 in prize money. Invented in 1965 by a group of American friends, pickleball
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Getty Images Matt Warwick BBC Sport Senior Journalist 44 minutes ago Tom Pidcock’s attention to detail is “next level” according to his new team boss Doug Ryder. The British rider, 25, signed for the Swiss Q36.5 team earlier this month after leaving Ineos Grenadiers following three years with the British team. “It’s a game changer
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Jesse Rogers, ESPN Staff WriterDec 20, 2024, 10:21 AM ET Close Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions Free agent infielder Gio Urshela is in agreement with the Athletics on a major league contract, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday. Urshela, 33, has bounced around the past
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Jeff Passan, Senior MLB InsiderDec 20, 2024, 11:15 AM ET Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Open Extended Reactions Left-hander Patrick Sandoval and the Boston Red Sox are in agreement on a two-year, $18.25 million contract, sources told ESPN, uniting the veteran who
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Dec 20, 2024, 09:17 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Netflix and FIFA have agreed a deal for the streaming giant to have exclusive United States broadcasting rights to the next two FIFA Women’s World Cup tournaments, global football’s governing body confirmed on Friday. The 2027 edition of the World Cup is set for Brazil, while
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Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterDec 19, 2024, 09:30 AM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. Open Extended Reactions NOTRE DAME DEFENSIVE coordinator Al Golden is not one to talk about his past, certainly not his past at Miami, where he held his last head coaching job nine
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Jake Trotter, ESPN Senior WriterDec 20, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Jake Trotter covers college football for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2011. Before that, he worked at The Oklahoman, Austin American-Statesman and Middletown (Ohio) Journal newspapers. You can follow him @Jake_Trotter. Open Extended Reactions KURTIS ROURKE’S GO-TO shirt around the Indiana football facility reads,
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Pete Thamel, Senior College Sports InsiderDec 20, 2024, 08:56 AM ET Close College Football Senior Writer for ESPN. Insider for College Gameday. Open Extended Reactions SOUTH BEND, Ind.– As Indiana prepares for the biggest game in school history on Friday night against Notre Dame, it’s also building for 2025. Sources told ESPN on Friday morning
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Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterDec 20, 2024, 09:43 AM Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions Tom Ilube has stepped down from his position after three years. Getty RFU chairman Tom Ilube has
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