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Golf Rumors: PGA Tour, LIV set to form ‘Elite Global Tour’
The Daily Mail (Sport) produced exclusive details from sources close to the negotiations for the PGA-LIV merger on August 30th. This information hasn’t been officially confirmed by the PGA Tour or LIV Golf but this hasn’t been the first time the Daily Mail has been ahead of breaking golf news. There are still many details that will emerge over the coming year but some of the vital structural details have come out regarding how and when the global tour will operate.
Is it time for the Tour Championship to introduce Match Play?
Is it time for the Tour Championship to introduce Match Play? Professional golf is very much a sport of the lone wolf and mercenary, a game relegated to the individual who is willing to traverse the course alone with only a trusty caddie at their side. The camaraderie of team play that many golfers participate in throughout high school and the collegiate ranks has all but disappeared from the PGA Tour.
Was The 2023 Season A Failure For Scottie Scheffler?
Scottie Scheffler had an unbelievably consistent 2023 season with two victories and seventeen top-tens but could this year still be considered a failure? The FedEx Cup Playoffs have come and gone for another season. Scottie Scheffler came into the 2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs with the points lead for the second year in a row and failed to capture the FedEx Cup once again. Rory McIlroy wrestled it away from Scheffler last year in a thrilling final-day six-stroke comeback at the Tour Championship.
WATCH: Christopher Morel Blasts Walk-Off To Beat White Sox 4-3
The Chicago Cubs were down 3-1 in the bottom of the ninth inning with two runners on, Christopher Morel did the rest. The Chicago Cubs were down 3-1 to the Chicago White Sox in the bottom of the ninth inning in another episode of the Crosstown Classic. This one did not disappoint. Christopher Morel stepped to the plate with two runners on with no outs against relief pitcher Gregory Santos.
Adbert Alzolay: The Chicago Cubs Closer Of The Future?
Adbert Alzolay has been an excellent fit for the Chicago Cubs in the closer role out of the bullpen. Can Alzolay fill that role for the future? Adbert Alzolay has been the Chicago Cubs primary closer in the 2023 season. Alzolay has converted sixteen of seventeen save opportunities this year, converting his last twelve consecutively. The fifth-year pitcher has become a fan favorite for the team, with his ability to shut the door in the ninth inning and his passionate celebrations.
Danny Ainge wanted to trade for Bulls star in 2017
Danny Ainge, current Utah Jazz executive, was in the front office for the Boston Celtics for close to two decades. Ainge expressed his desire to trade for a former Chicago Bulls All-Star on the Knuckleheads Podcast. Danny Ainge is currently an executive with the Utah Jazz but spent eighteen years in the front office for the Boston Celtics. Ainge is renowned for his savvy and bold moves as a general manager especially in his years for the Celtics.
Can Seiya Suzuki Dig Out Of 2023 Slump To Jumpstart His Bat?
Chicago Cubs right-fielder, Seiya Suzuki, has been struggling at the plate as of late. What can he do to heat up his bat? Seiya Suzuki of the Chicago Cubs has been regrettably poor in the batters box for the past couple of months. Suzuki has been pulled of out the every day lineup due to his struggles at the plate, only being inserted against left-handed pitching. The second-year big leaguer has been slashing a solid .269/.325/.407 against southpaws in 108 at-bats this year.
2023 ROTY Candidates
The 2023-2024 preseason hype machine is well under way. Who will make the NBA Finals? Who will win MVP? Which teams will surprise and underwhelm? Who will win Rookie of the Year? Well, we’ve given into the hype machine and it feels amazing. There will be plenty of young first-year players coming out of the 2023 NBA Draft as well as anyone who missed their rookie season from the year prior and any first-year players coming to the league internationally.
2023 Basketball Hall of Fame Class: Former Bulls Inducted
Two former Chicago Bulls, Dwyane Wade and Paul Gasol, will be amongst the 2023 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame class inducted tonight in Springfield, Massachusetts. The 2023 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame class will include two former Chicago Bulls in Dwyane Wade and Pau Gasol. Wade and Gasol will join San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich, former Spurs point guard Tony Parker and former Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki amongst the NBA inductees.
Connor Bedard Partners With Sherwood Hockey
Connor Bedard and Sherwood Hockey have announced a new partnership between the rookie number-one overall pick and the equipment brand. Connor Bedard and Sherwood Hockey have announced an exclusive brand partnership between the 2023 number-one overall draft pick and the hockey equipment brand. Bedard will exclusively use the brand within NHL play going forward. Bedard will play solely with Sherwood Rekker sticks and gloves on the ice.
Can Scottie Scheffler Overcome Streaky Play To Take FedEx Cup?
The FedEx St. Jude Championship kicks off the first of three legs for the FedEx Cup championship beginning on Thursday August 10th. The tournament will be played at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. The current field for the tournament will consist of seventy golfers with no cut, vying for a chance to compete in the second leg of the FedEx Cup next week at the BMW Championship.
Ron Santo Bobblehead Night At Wrigley Field
The Chicago Cubs have a Ron Santo Statue bobblehead night on August 20th to honor the late Cubs legend. The Chicago Cubs have a promotional night on August 20th against the Kansas City Royals to honor Cubs legendary third baseman Ron Santo. The first 10,000 fans that arrive to Wrigley Field will receive a Ron Santo Statue bobblehead, courtesy of Reynolds/Hefty.
2023 Chicago Cubs Hall of Fame Weekend Enshrinement
The Chicago Cubs will be introducing Mark Grace and Shawon Dunston for the Cubs Hall of Fame Weekend from September 8th to 10th. The Chicago Cubs will be inducting former Cubs first baseman Mark Grace and shortstop Shawon Dunston to the Cubs Hall of Fame from September 8th to 10th next month. There will be a special giveaway to fans on September 10th. The first 10,000 fans to the ballpark will receive pins for Grace and Dunston commemorating their enshrinement into the Cubs Hall of Fame.
Chicago Cubs Important Matchups For Remainder Of 2023 Season
The Chicago Cubs have a handful of important matchups going into the last two months of the season. This is a pivotal stretch that will be a strong indicator for their potential in the postseason. The Chicago Cubs are entering the home stretch of the season with the festivities of the All-Star Break concluded and the dog days of summer upon us.
Are The Surging Cubs The Hottest Team In Baseball Right Now?
The Chicago Cubs are the hottest team in baseball right now. Only the Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers have a better record since the All-Star Break. The Chicago Cubs are the hottest team in baseball and it isn’t close. The Cubs have a 31-19 record in their last fifty games with victories against the San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers.
BREAKING: Trey Mancini Designated For Assignment By Cubs
The Chicago Cubs have designated Trey Mancini for assignment on August 1st. If Trey Mancini is not claimed off waivers in the next week, the first baseman will hit free-agency. The Chicago Cubs have designated for assignment 1B/DH Trey Mancini to make room on the roster for Jeimer Candelario. Candelario was acquired on July 31st in a trade with the Washington Nationals to bolster the Cubs roster in order to accelerate their efforts to contend for the playoffs.
2023 Top Prospect Pete Crow-Armstrong Called Up To Iowa
Pete Crow-Armstrong, Chicago Cubs top prospect, is being called up to the Triple-A Iowa Cubs after dominating in Double-A Tennessee. The Chicago Cubs have promoted their top prospect, Pete Crow-Armstrong, from their Double-A affiliate Tennessee Smokies to their Triple-A affiliate Iowa Cubs. Crow-Armstrong is the seventh-ranked prospect overall in the MLB per the leagues official rankings. Sahadev Sharma of the Athletic broke the news yesterday amidst a flurry of trades made by the Cubs.
Chicago Cubs Bolster Team With Jeimer Candelario and Jose Cuas
The Chicago Cubs have acquired Jeimer Candelario and Jose Cuas before the MLB Trade Deadline on August 1st. Are there more deals in store for the Cubs? Third baseman Jeimer Candelario was traded to Chicago Cubs from the Washington Nationals and relief pitcher José Cuas shortly after from the Kansas City Royals before the MLB Trade Deadline. The trades were finalized a few hours ago.
2023 MLB Trade Deadline: Should The Cubs Really Be Buyers?
The Chicago Cubs are interested in making a playoff push with their current resurgence but is the team a prisoner of the moment and being too short-sighted? Will acquisitions at the MLB Trade Deadline make enough of a difference this year? The Chicago Cubs are reportedly no longer planning on being sellers at the MLB Trade Deadline on August 1st but actually may be buyers to make a playoff push.
Shohei Ohtani on Cubs radar for 2024 free agency?
The Chicago Cubs are rumored to be interested in pursuing Shohei Ohtani next offseason amongst other notable suitors. The Chicago Cubs have found themselves in the rumor mill for the services of two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani. Bruce Devine of 670 The Score reported on Saturday that the Cubs would absolutely be in play for the Japanese slugger.
Cubs Powered To Victory Over White Sox 7-3
The Chicago Cubs defeated the Chicago White Sox on the road at Guaranteed Rate Field 7-3. The Chicago Cubs won the first game of the Crosstown Classic against the Chicago White Sox 7-3 in a convincing victory. The bats came to the life for the Cubs with thirteen hits on the south side including a two home-run night from Dansby Swanson. Swanson reached base on all four at bats with two dingers, a single and a walk with four runs batted in.
Memories between Cubs and White Sox
We look back at some of the best memories from the Crosstown Classic The Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox will play today for the 145th time in both clubs history which includes regular season and postseason play in the Crosstown Classic. The White Sox hold the edge historically with a 77-67 record versus the Cubs. Official interleague play started in 1997 during certain time windows in the regular season. Teams from both leagues could not play each other outside of the World Series until 1997.
The Best Sports Games Of The Early 2000's
The early 2000’s were a time where technology and entertainment were expanding rapidly with the advent of the Internet and the Dot-com bubble. Home video game consoles witnessed a surge in popularity going into the mid to late 90’s and surpassed arcade setups as the prominent way to play your favorite game. The early 2000’s saw the release of the XBox, PlayStation 2 and Gamecube.
Wembanyama To San Antonio
The pick is in! The San Antonio Spurs have selected Victor Wembanyama with the first overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft. Surprise, surprise. This selection has seemed like a foregone conclusion since the Spurs won the NBA Draft Lottery in May. BSP predicted how tremendous of a fit the French center would be with the Spurs towards the middle of last season here.
The PGA World Tour?
The PGA Tour, DP World Tour and the Public Investment Fund (responsible for LIV Golf) have agreed to a business merger in one of the most stunning sports stories of 2023. The announcement was made today with the purpose of the merger to create one “commercial entity” to unify professional golf as a whole. There are many details of this unification that have yet to be revealed but this will formally end the ongoing legal battle between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour.
Oklahoma City Thunder End Of Season Report
The Oklahoma City Thunder finished the 2022-2023 season with a 40-42 record. This was just enough for the team to finish tenth in the Western Conference and qualify for the NBA Play-In Tournament. The Thunder advanced in the first round against the New Orleans Pelicans in a close 123-118 victory. The Thunder fell at the hands of the Minnesota Timberwolves though, with a 120-95 loss in the second round of the Play-In and were eliminated from the NBA Playoffs.
BSP 2023 NBA Finals Roundtable Predictions
The 2023 NBA playoffs will commence soon and the BSP Basketball staff wanted to put together some predictions for the final outcome. Who will win the 2023 NBA Finals? There are plenty of contenders in both the Western and Eastern Conferences so your guess is as good as ours. We will put our writers to the test to see who comes closest to predicting the participants and the winner of the next NBA championship. Memphis Grizzlies vs.
The Masters Preview
The Masters. A tournament many golf fans mark on their calendars for the first weekend of April. One of the major golf championships held each year on the PGA Tour and arguably one of the most prestigious out of the four. The tournament is played at the majestic Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia and founded by the legendary Bobby Jones. The Green Jacket is one of the most coveted items in professional golf and a field of eighty-eight players will vie for the honor of dawning its threads.
Corey Conners Wins Valero Texas Open
Corey Conners won the Valero Texas Open on Sunday at TPC San Antonio, concluding the round with a bogey-free 68 and finished fifteen under for the tournament. This will be the second time Conners has won here, taking the event in 2019 for his first career PGA Tour victory. This is Conners second overall win on the PGA Tour and will allow him to compete in the Masters Tournament at Augusta National this week.
Taylor Moore Wins First PGA Tournament
Taylor Moore claimed his first PGA Tour victory at the Valspar Championship on Sunday at Copperhead Course. Moore shot the lowest score of the final round with a 67 (-4) to outlast the leaders at the start of the round. Adam Schenk, Jordan Spieth and Tommy Fleetwood were all in contention to start the round, taking turns flirting with the lead throughout. Schenk was tied with Moore going into the eighteenth hole but hit a drive off to the left of the fairway into the trees.
Scottie Scheffler Takes Players Championship
The howling winds of TPC Sawgrass bow only to Scottie Scheffler. Scheffler won his first Players Championship in decisive fashion on Sunday, finishing seventeen under for the tournament. Scheffler won by five strokes over Tyrrell Hatton with a final round of 69. The Texas native got off to a slightly shaky start in the round, bogeying the third hole. Hatton, Min Woo Lee and Hideki Matsuyama were all in striking distance early, only trailing Scheffler by a couple shots.
Tom Hoge Sets TPC Sawgrass Course Record
The third round of the Players Championship has been an eventful one thus far. Aaron Rai aced the seventeenth hole for the second hole-in-one of the tournament. Scottie Scheffler concluded the round as the leader in the clubhouse at seven under on the day and fourteen under overall. Scheffler leads by two shots over Min Woo Lee going into the final round tomorrow and will look to finish it out after a disappointing conclusion to the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
The Bears Trade Top Pick To Panthers
The Chicago Bears just flipped the 2023 NFL Draft on its head. The Bears traded the number-one pick in the draft to the Carolina Panthers for a treasure trove of assets. The Panthers traded their ninth overall first-round pick, their sixty-first overall second round pick, a 2024 first-round pick, a 2025 second-round pick and wide receiver DJ Moore for the top overall spot.
Kurt Kitayama Claims First PGA Tour Victory
Kurt Kitayama won his first PGA Tour tournament event at the Bay Hill Club for the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday. Kitayama was tied with Rory McIlroy and Harris English approaching the seventeenth hole and holed a clutch thirteen foot birdie putt to pull away by a shot. The win was sealed with a two-putt par on the eighteenth after Kitayama missed a forty-seven foot birdie putt by almost an inch.
Patrick Kane To The Big Apple
The wait is over, the speculation ceases. The Chicago Blackhawks and New York Rangers have agreed to a deal sending Patrick Kane to the Big Apple. The Blackhawks will receive a conditional 2023 second-round pick and a 2023 fourth-round pick in the exchange. The second-round pick will turn into a first-round pick if the Rangers make the Conference Finals but the pick would be in either 2024 or 2025 if that came to fruition per Emily Kaplan of ESPN.
How Does Patrick Beverley Fit With The Bulls?
The Chicago Bulls have agreed to a deal with Patrick Beverley to retain his services for the rest of this season. The Bulls will be waiving Tony Bradley to make space for their newest signing. The news was officially announced on Tuesday and according to Beverley, via his podcast, the choice came down to the Bulls or the Golden State Warriors. “It was between Golden State and the Bulls… I figured I make a playoff push with the Bulls right now,” Beverley asserted.
The Resurrection Of The Slam Dunk Contest
The NBA Slam Dunk Contest has been much maligned in recent years. The league has not garnered the type of star participants it has in the past, and many point to the lack of financial incentives for the event. The true faces of the league haven’t been participating in the event arguably since the early 2010’s. The stars of the NBA don’t seem to see the necessity in participation if it doesn’t impact their legacy.
Best Fits For Scoot Henderson
Victor Wembanyama is arguably the most hyped NBA draft prospect of all time. The immensity of his talent and potential are difficult to equate to any modern or past player in the league. You can read the first entry here, within our three-part analysis on where the talented Frenchman will likely be drafted. Wembanyama is not the only generational talent at the top of this draft class. Sterling “Scoot” Henderson would have been ranked number one in many past NBA draft classes without much argument.
2023 NBA Three-Point Contest Favorites
The 2023 Starry 3-Point Contest will take place at Vivint Arena on February 18th at 8 pm EST. The three-point contest this year will be star-studded as usual with Shams Charania officially announcing the participants on Tuesday. Jayson Tatum, Kevin Huerter, Tyler Herro, Tyrese Haliburton, Buddy Hield, Damian Lillard, Julius Randle and Lauri Markkanen will participate in the three-point contest on Saturday in Salt Lake City.
The Sweepstakes Continues Part III
NBA Draft speculation, a tradition as old as time. Who will be drafted where, which team will uncover the hidden gem and which team will select the newest bust. This is not one such ritual but speculation on where the NBA’s next huge prize will land. Victor Wembanyama is arguably the most highly coveted and hyped NBA draft prospect since LeBron James. Who will take him in the 2023 NBA Draft and land a generational talent that can transform their team for the next ten to fifteen years?
BSP NBA Trade Deadline Recap
The 2023 NBA trade deadline was a whirlwind and may have been difficult to keep up with all the players moved during that window of time. There were a handful of future Hall of Fame basketball players moved and second-round picks were thrown around like candy. Here is a comprehensive list of all the trades that took place on Wednesday and Thursday leading up to the deadline.
The Sweepstakes Continues Part II
NBA Draft speculation, a tradition as old as time. Who will be drafted where, which team will uncover the hidden gem and which team will select the newest bust. This is not one such ritual but speculation on where the NBA’s next huge prize will land. Victor Wembanyama is arguably the most highly coveted and hyped NBA draft prospect since LeBron James. Who will take him in the 2023 NBA Draft and land a generational talent that can transform their team for the next ten to fifteen years?
The Sweepstakes Continues Part I
NBA Draft speculation, a tradition as old as time. Who will be drafted where, which team will uncover the hidden gem and which team will select the newest bust. This is not one such ritual but speculation on where the NBA’s next huge prize will land. Victor Wembanyama is arguably the most highly coveted and hyped NBA draft prospect since LeBron James. Who will take him in the 2023 NBA Draft and land a generational talent that can transform their team for the next ten to fifteen years?
Kevin Durant Heading To The Valley
Well it is official. The Brooklyn Nets grand experiment has mercifully come to an end. The Nets have agreed to a trade sending Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns just days after dealing Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks. The Suns are sending Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson, Jae Crowder, four first-round picks and a 2028 pick swap for to the Nets for Durant and T.J. Warren. The four first-round picks will be unprotected for the following years: 2023, 2025, 2027 and 2029.
The Emergence of Lauri Markkanen
Professional athletes throughout the history of sports have changed teams on countless occasions through releases, trades and free agency. For the average person it is difficult to quantify the impact a trade or a release can have on an athlete’s life and career. An exit from the current team can be a blow to their confidence, can affect how they play the game psychologically or it can be a new start for them and a new opportunity to prove what they’re capable of.
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