golf
Tulsa, Oklahoma (AP) —Rory McIlroy leads the first round of the 65th opening round of the PGA Championship.
Tiger Woods played with him in Southern Hills and shot 74. They played two different games.
McIlroy blew up the driver and took advantage of his length. Woods was picking his spot and wasn’t helped by the less than stellar iron play. He also says his feet feel much more painful than they did in the early days of the Masters.
McIlroy leads Will Zaratris and Tom Hozi in one fell swoop. Justin Thomas played in harsh afternoon conditions and was 67 years old.
College football
The Southeastern Conference Spring Conference will be held directly for the first time in less than two weeks since 2019. It is unlikely that two SEC superstar coaches will run around Destin, Florida together.
Texas A & M coach Jimbo Fisher called Nick Saban a “narcissist” on Thursday after accusing coach Alabama of landing a top-ranked recruitment class using name, image and portrait trading to trade rival Aggie.
Savan apologized a few hours later, but generally stuck to his position, and SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey was soon reprimanded by both public.
MLB
New York (AP) — Mets pitcher Max Scherzer has a tense diagonal muscle on the left and is expected to miss for 6-8 weeks. The latest blow to New York’s pitching staff has already lost ace Jacob deGrom.
Scherzer, who won the Cy Young Award three times, counted Albert Pujols one-on-one in the sixth inning and underwent an MRI scan the day after his start with St. Louis Cardinals. To his left. “
New York said the scan detected moderate to high tension in the internal oblique muscle, the side that causes pain in the thorax.
NHL
Nashville, Tennessee (AP) —Nashville Predators has extended the contract between John Hines and his assistants from 2023 to the 24th season, with some individual successes in the playoffs wiped out franchise. I’m trying to build a season. first time.
General Manager David Poyle announced Thursday that Hines and his assistant had agreed to an extension.
Poyle hired Hines in January 2020 to replace Peter Laviolette as Nashville’s third head coach. Hines has won only three playoff games with the Presidents. Presidents have not won the post-season series since the first round of 2018 after winning the President’s Trophy at La Violette.
tennis
Paris (AP) — Naomi Osaka’s return to the French Open is the Australian Open, No. 27 It will be a tough test for the player who defeated her in Amanda Anisimova.
Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam champion and once ranked first in the ranking, but due to lack of activity, it fell to 38th. This included a mental health break after withdrawing from the French Open prior to the second round a year ago, revealing that he had dealt with anxiety and depression.
In the men’s bracket, Novak Djokovic could face Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals, and the winner could face Carlos Alcaraz, who creates a teenage sensation in the semi-finals. The tournament starts on Sunday.
soccer
Liverpool, England (AP) —Everton secured the Premier League survival by beating Crystal Palace 3-2 on Thursday in the penultimate match of the season, recovering from two goals.
Everton’s fate seemed to settle on Sunday after Jean-Philippe Mateta and Jordan Ayew scored at the Palace in the first half. However, Michael Keane made a comeback in the 54th minute, Richarlison drew the match in the 75th minute, and Dominic Calvert-Lewin brought Everton forward in the 85th minute.
This victory extended Everton’s stay in the Top Division to 1969.
Geneva (AP) — Female referees will make the history of this year’s World Cup by playing in Qatar’s first major men’s tournament.
Of the 129 officers selected for the World Cup mission, three female referees and three female assistant referees were announced Thursday.
French referee Stephanie Frapert has already played in the men’s match in the World Cup qualifiers and the Champions League after taking charge of the 2019 Women’s World Cup final. She also referred to this month’s men’s French Cup final.
swimming
Adelaide, Australia (AP) — Olympic champion Zac Stubblety-Cook set a world record for men’s 200-meter breaststroke at the Australian Swimming Championships on Thursday.
The stub tic cook finished in 2 minutes 05.95 seconds in the final, improving the mark before 2: 06.12 set by Russian swimmer Anton Chupkov at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.
The 23-year-old Stubble Cook won a gold medal at last year’s Tokyo Games and set an Olympic record.
MMA
Los Angeles (AP) — The great baseball player Alex Rodriguez challenges mixed martial arts as an investor and executive in the Profighters League.
PFL announced Thursday that it will add a former Yankees superstar to its board of directors.
Rodriguez’s investment is part of PFL’s statement that it is $ 30 million in new funding to support its global expansion and the establishment of Pay Per View’s Super Fight division. The funding round was led by Waverly Capital, a media-focused venture capital fund of investor Edgar Bronfman Jr.
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