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‘It Was a No-Brainer’: Lexi Thompson Opens Up About Her Decision to Join Tiger Woods’ $500M League Despite Pregnancy
Pregnant and semi-retired, Lexi Thompson’s decision to join the inaugural WTGL, the women’s version of Tiger Woods’ and Rory McIlroy’s $500 million TGL, challenges traditional ideas about female athletes, motherhood, and career transitions. After playing 13 events last year and just eight in 2026, she’s showing that stepping back doesn’t have to mean stepping away. […] The post ‘It Was a No-Brainer’: Lexi Thompson Opens Up About Her Decision to Join Tiger Woods’ $500M League Despite Pregnancy appeared first on EssentiallySports.
“Different Beast Come Playoffs”: Paige Bueckers Admits Blunt Reality About A’ja Wilson & Co. Ahead of Playoffs
The Dallas Wings will finally play their first postseason game in the Paige Bueckers era, and it would be safe to say that they would have chosen any other team but the defending champions, the Las Vegas Aces. While Bueckers and her team have numbers to support their chances should they face the Aces in […] The post “Different Beast Come Playoffs”: Paige Bueckers Admits Blunt Reality About A’ja Wilson & Co. Ahead of Playoffs appeared first on EssentiallySports.
Ex Bucs’ Star Warren Sapp Launches Civil Lawsuit Against Tampa City After Being Kicked Out of Council Meeting
Warren Sapp built an NFL Hall of Fame career by disrupting the other team’s plans. Now the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers star defensive tackle is accusing Tampa city officials of disrupting his, and he’s suing them to prove it. According to the reports, Sapp filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Tampa […] The post Ex Bucs’ Star Warren Sapp Launches Civil Lawsuit Against Tampa City After Being Kicked Out of Council Meeting appeared first on EssentiallySports.
“It’s Denzel”: Fans Push Back After Brad Pitt Is Called the ‘LeBron James of Acting’
Seventeen years after his last appearance at the San Sebastián Film Festival, Brad Pitt walked back into the same spotlight this week. At 62, he still had the room watching when he stepped up to the press podium for Heart of the Beast. Then, in a very Pitt moment, he briefly turned away to get […] The post “It’s Denzel”: Fans Push Back After Brad Pitt Is Called the ‘LeBron James of Acting’ appeared first on EssentiallySports.
Tony Stewart Announces High-Profile Replacement After Leah Pruett’s Major NHRA Decision
One press conference earlier this month brought two major announcements for Tony Stewart Racing Nitro. On September 18, the three-time Cup Series champion’s wife, Leah Pruett, revealed that she would step away from the Top Fuel car from 2027 onward, leaving her future in NHRA open. On the same stage, Stewart’s former mentor was also […] The post Tony Stewart Announces High-Profile Replacement After Leah Pruett’s Major NHRA Decision appeared first on EssentiallySports.
“I Was Honestly $20,000 in Debt”: Ben Griffin Reveals the Hidden Cost of Chasing a Golf Career
Ben Griffin is now a three-time PGA Tour winner with more than $22 million in career earnings. Not long ago, however, things looked very different. At one point he was couch surfing and using credit cards to keep his golf career going. In a recent interview with Golf Monthly, the 30-year-old opened up about how […] The post “I Was Honestly $20,000 in Debt”: Ben Griffin Reveals the Hidden Cost of Chasing a Golf Career appeared first on EssentiallySports.
Sandro Mazzola obituary
Outstanding footballer who won two European Cups with Internazionale and a World Cup runners-up medal with ItalyThe Italian footballer Sandro Mazzola, who has died aged 83, was a supremely gifted forward who won two European Cups and four Serie A titles during 17 years with his only club, Internazionale of Milan. With Italy’s national side he won the European Championship in 1968 and played in the 4-1 defeat by Pelé’s Brazil in the final of the 1970 World Cup.He was six years old when his father, Valentino Mazzola, the captain of an invincible Torino team and of Italy, died aged 30, along with the rest of the team, when their chartered plane, returning in bad weather from a friendly fixture in Lisbon in May 1949, crashed into the Superga hill overlooking Turin, killing everyone on board. The demise of Il Grande Torino, as they were known, traumatized the nation. Continue reading...
Football Daily | Pints and points: the arguments for and against booze at football matches
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Considering he is a lifelong Everton fan, it’s no surprise that Andy Burnham seems to be in favour of allowing fans to drink Tin at football matches. Bouts of boardroom turmoil, points deductions and assorted relegation battles mean the lot of an Evertonian is not always a happy one. The Prime Minister believes that if he and other fans fancy a sip or two to help ease the pain of watching Thierno Barry head wide of an open goal, then that ought to be their constitutional right as proud Englishmen. Sadly, no such right currently exists, as alcohol consumption within view of the pitch has been outlawed in the top five divisions of English football since the troubled times of the 1980s. Instead, thirsty match-goers are forced to endure an agonising wait of 45 whole minutes before rushing to the bar, joining long queues of fellow fans eager to buy pints of foaming shaft they must subsequently chug back, yard-of-ale style, in enough time to return to their seats for the start of the second half.Like anyone with a sense of football heritage, as soon as I read in yesterday’s Football Daily that Javier Aguirre had joined Valencia, I scrambled to see when they would play Anthony Gordon’s Barcelona. Sadly, it seems we’ll have to wait until the end of January for that particular reunion. Hey, fixture list, beep you” – Jim Hearson.If Thomas Tuchel believes that 99.9% of supporters he bumps into do not talk to him about his substitutions during the Argentina game (Football Daily Tuesday), has he noticed a significant percentage of fans turning on their heels and walking in the opposite direction muttering furiously to themselves when they spot him? I would estimate that this could encompass approximately 51.8% of England supporters in his orbit. Another cohort, which I would put at around 37.6%, may break down weeping and gnashing their teeth uncontrollably at a missed opportunity to beat a limited and cynical Argentinian team, thereby missing their opportunity to congratulate Thomas effusively on England’s knockout win over Democratic Republic of Congo” – Dexter O’ Riordan.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading...
Japan teenager Shin Ohashi overcomes Covid and fever to smash breaststroke world record
Swimmer wins 200m gold at Asian Games with 39C feverSays Covid helped him rest and ‘was a good thing’The Japanese teenager Shin Ohashi said a bout of Covid helped him smash the men’s 200m breaststroke world record in a time of 2min 4.83sec at the Asian Games on Thursday.The 17-year-old won his second gold of the Games in Tokyo despite running a temperature of about 39C just days before the competition began. Continue reading...
My bad TV history qualifies me to discuss Disney’s women’s football coverage | Max Rushden
A golden retriever and a game of guess the pasta were unusual to see in a Women’s Champions League show – but I understand how they arrived thereDisclaimer: I have made a lot of bad TV programmes. I have done quite a few below-average radio shows. Podcasts, there are millions of them – some might say too many – and I’ve done my fair share that won’t go down in history. In between those, I’ve hopefully done some pretty good ones – it’s not for me to say.I have had good ideas and the odd great one that didn’t make it to air (attention the full-size unreferenced post-Keys and Gray elephant in the Soccer AM studio). I’ve had more awful ones. I’ve hosted shows where I’ve had almost complete editorial control, and ones where I could have been replaced by a performing monkey. Continue reading...
Fury v Joshua fight confirmed for December at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium
Fight on 11 December will start in UK Saturday small hoursNon-title all-British bout to be streamed globally on NetflixThe Battle of Britain is officially fixed for Wales. Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will stage their long-awaited heavyweight blockbuster in Cardiff on 11 December after an 11th-hour standoff over the venue that threatened to derail the encounter.The agreement ends years of false starts between the former world champions and clears the way for one of the biggest all-British fights in boxing history. The undercard will take place on a Friday night, with the main-event ringwalks at the Principality Stadium expected in the small hours of Saturday morning – widely reported to be around 2am. Continue reading...
How People Around NFL Are Reacting To Young QB Injuries: 'Holy S---! What Is Going On?'
We asked people around the NFL what they thought about those injuries and what future concerns they might have about Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels and Jaxson Dart.
