Month: July 2019

11:10 PM ET Associated Press RENO, Nev. — David Lingmerth had nine birdies to take the lead Thursday in the suspended first round of the Barracuda Championship, the PGA Tour’s lone modified Stableford scoring system event. The Swede had 18 points at Montreaux Golf and Country Club under the format that awards eight points for
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10:20 PM ET SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Cam Newton admittedly couldn’t throw more than 30 yards at the end of last season due to a sore right shoulder, so two completions of 40-plus yards in the first practice of training camp was a positive sign for the Carolina Panthers‘ ninth-year quarterback. “He’s healthy and ready to
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9:53 PM ET EDMONTON, Alberta — A heavyweight bout once set to open UFC 240 on Saturday is off. Giacomo Lemos is out of a fight with Tanner Boser on the preliminary card at Rogers Place, UFC officials confirmed Thursday night to ESPN. The UFC said it was due to a “health-related issue.” Both men
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9:59 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Steve Ballmer was at his coastal home about two hours outside Seattle when he got the phone call he had been waiting for. Dennis Robertson, Kawhi Leonard‘s trusted uncle and adviser, called the LA Clippers owner around 11 p.m. to inform him that Leonard was joining the Clippers. Ballmer
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9:43 PM ET Morning football could be coming to the West Coast, Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott acknowledged Wednesday when he revealed the conference has had preliminary discussions about scheduling games to kick off at 9 a.m. PT. “That would be new and out of the box for our conference, but I’ve tried to put everything
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6:24 PM ET Entering Thursday night’s intriguing slate of fights at PFL 5, only two featherweights (Luis Rafael Laurentino, Movlid Khaybulaev) and two lightweights (Akhmed Aliev, Natan Schulte) have six points and a clear advantage in the race for the playoffs. Everything else is wide open and undetermined. That parity is due, in part, to
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