Category Archives: Sports

AP source: Koepka the latest to join Saudi-backed LIV series
CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) - Brooks Koepka, one of the first players to denounce a rival league for only 48 players, is the latest PGA Tour player to sign on with the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series, The Assoc...
Jun 21, 2022

Cataractes rally to clip Oil Kings 4-3 in Memorial Cup
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Forward Pierrick Dube of the Shawinigan Cataractes admitted that watching opening night action at the Memorial Cup instead of playing in it pumped up his team's anxiety levels. On T...
Jun 21, 2022

Matthews wins Hart as NHL's most valuable player
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Toronto's Auston Matthews won the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player on Tuesday night, beating out Edmonton's Connor McDavid and Igor Shesterkin of the New York Rangers t...
Jun 21, 2022

MLB standardizes how baseballs are prepped to be put in play
NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball is standardizing procedures for rubbing baseballs and their removal from humidors in an effort to establish more consistency amid complaints about slickness that ...
Jun 21, 2022

Brown introduced as Kings coach after helping Warriors win
During a break between Golden State's Western Conference finals games against Dallas, then-Warriors top assistant Mike Brown jumped on a plane to San Diego to watch his new star De'Aaron Fox work out ...
Jun 21, 2022

NBA Finals viewership up 24 percent over 2021
NEW YORK (AP) - Nearly 14 million people watched the Golden State Warriors win its fourth NBA championship since 2015 by beating the Boston Celtics in the sixth game of their series. The series that m...
Jun 21, 2022

Women's PGA Championship doubles prize money to $9 million
The KPMG Women's PGA Championship is doubling the size of its purse to $9 million, another boost to the women's game that brings prize money for the five majors to nearly triple the amount from a deca...
Jun 21, 2022

Naomi Osaka, LeBron James team up for entertainment venture
LOS ANGELES (AP) - LeBron James and Naomi Osaka are becoming teammates in the entertainment world. Tennis star Osaka and her agent and business partner, Stuart Duguid, are forming a media company call...
Jun 21, 2022

Column: Youth movement can make LIV Golf look appealing
CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) - Players willing to leave the PGA Tour for riches only Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund can provide is a movement Rory McIlroy refers to as the "easy way out." Maybe that's t...
Jun 21, 2022

Serena Williams wins 1st match of comeback after year away
EASTBOURNE, England (AP) - As "What A Feeling" boomed around Devonshire Park, Serena Williams strode onto center court at Eastbourne to a standing ovation for her first competitive tennis match in nea...
Jun 21, 2022