Month: August 2021

9:33 PM ET Associated Press TRUCKEE, Calif. — Adam Schenk birdied the par-4 18th in smoky conditions from wildfires Saturday for an 11-point round and four-point lead in the Barracuda Championship, the only PGA Tour event that uses the modified Stableford scoring system. Players receive eight points for an albatross, five for eagle, two for
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7:35 PM ET Associated Press WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Ty Gibbs passed road race ace AJ Allmendinger after a restart with four laps to go and won the Xfinity race at Watkins Glen International on Saturday. It was the third win in 10 Xfinity races this season for the 18-year-old grandson of team owner Joe
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9:12 PM ET OXNARD, Calif. — Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy said quarterback Dak Prescott has done some “light throwing” for the first time since leaving practice July 28 with a latissimus strain in his right shoulder. McCarthy followed up with a reference to “light objects,” which could mean it was not a regulation football,
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7:50 PM ET PITTSBURGH — More than two weeks into the Pittsburgh Steelers‘ training camp, star outside linebacker T.J. Watt hasn’t taken part in a single team period. Coach Mike Tomlin has been vague when asked about Watt’s absence in those drills, saying Saturday that Watt has been “working hard with our trainers.” Steelers defensive
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7:16 PM BST Veteran Morne Steyn kicked over a last-gasp penalty to hand South Africa a narrow 19-16 victory over British & Irish Lions in the third and final test on Saturday to seal a 2-1 series victory. The 37-year-old reprised his heroics from 12 years ago when he did the same for the Springboks
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8:14 PM ET Associated Press HARRISON, N.Y. — Kentucky junior Jensen Castle rallied to advance to the U.S. Women’s Amateur final Saturday, beating NCAA champion Rachel Heck of Stanford with a 15-foot birdie putt on the 19th hole. Castle, from West Columbia, South Carolina, will face Arizona junior Hou Yu-chiang of Taiwan in the 36-hole
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7:22 PM ET Associated Press EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Captain Corey took the lead early, held off one challenge and then drew off in the stretch to give trainer-driver Ake Svanstedt his second win in the $1 million Hambletonian on Saturday at the Meadowlands. Svanstedt didn’t need any help from the judges this time. He
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7:30 PM ET Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Bryson DeChambeau let his clubs do most of the talking Saturday at TPC Southwind. DeChambeau shot a 7-under 63 on Saturday to pull within two strokes of leader Harris English in the FedEx St. Jude Invitational, then declined to comment to most of the media following the
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