7:08 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — The long ball helped Bryson DeChambeau outlast Lee Westwood on Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational, only the key shots were as much with his putter as his driver. DeChambeau holed a 40-foot birdie putt on the front nine and a 50-foot par putt early on
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9:19 PM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Coco Gauff had trouble closing out and needed to save two match points before finally fending off Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-6 (3), 2-6, 7-6 (8) on Sunday to advance to the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship. The 16-year-old American led 5-1 in
5:04 PM ET Brooks Koepka, who was making a strong return in 2021 after several frustrating injuries, has withdrawn from next week’s Players Championship due to a right knee strain. It is not the same knee that plagued him at the end of 2019 and into 2020. Koepka had a stem cell procedure on his
8:32 PM ET Phil Mickelson has fallen out of the top 100 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time since 1993, when he won the International tournament for his second PGA Tour victory. He stayed in the top 100 for a record 1,425 weeks. Mickelson, 50, who did not play this week’s
West Indies 134 for 7 (Simmons 26, Pooran 23, Sandakan 3-29) beat Sri Lanka 131 for 4 (Chandimal 54*, Bandara 44*, Allen 1-13) by three wickets Fabian Allen shone with both bat and ball, affecting the game at the start and finish, as the West Indies secured a hard-fought three-wicket win against Sri Lanka in
3:04 PM ET Associated Press Kawhi Leonard is planning to play for Gregg Popovich again and chase a gold medal. Leonard said Sunday at the NBA All-Star Game in Atlanta that he is planning to compete with USA Basketball this summer at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics — which would reunite him with Popovich. Leonard spent
8:26 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry won his second 3-point contest, while Indiana Pacers forward Domantas Sabonis outdueled Orlando‘s Nikola Vucevic in the final round of the skills challenge prior to Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game. Curry scored 28 points in the final round of the 3-point contest, nailing his last
7:09 PM ET Six-time All-Star forward Blake Griffin has agreed to a deal to join the Brooklyn Nets for the rest of the season, his agent Sam Goldfeder of Excel Sports told ESPN on Sunday night. The Nets are using one of their veteran minimum contract slots to sign Griffin, sources said. Griffin informed Nets
8:31 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Arnold Palmer might have given Bryson DeChambeau a few quizzical looks. He might have wondered about DeChambeau’s single-length irons and the wild diet and all the talk about science. Surely, he would have made fun of the Ben Hogan cap. But the late namesake of the tournament DeChambeau won
10:05 AM GMT The weekend’s action brought wins for the Force and Brumbies in Super Rugby AU, while the Highlanders and Crusaders were triumphant across the ditch in Super Rugby Aotearoa. Read on while we review some of the big talking points across the four fixtures. CRUSADERS ARE SOMETHING DIFFERENT This won’t come as a