October 3, 2023
Toulouse, France – Argentina heads into its crunch Pool D game with Japan on Oct. 8 at the Rugby World Cup knowing that a draw could be enough to see it qualify for the quarterfinals. The Pumas’ 59-5 win over Chile on Saturday in Nantes saw them rise to second place in the pool, equal
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Rome – Europe has another home Ryder Cup victory tantalizingly within its grasp after ending Saturday five points ahead, but the United States earned a glimmer of hope by taking the fourballs 3-1 in a high-octane finale as the sun set on the 18th hole. Patrick Cantlay ended a controversial personal day by birdying the
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Eight and three are the two most important numbers to the Wallabies at the World Cup with the faintest hopes of a miracle progression now out of their hands as coach Eddie Jones again dismissed talk about his own future. A 34-14 win over Portugal in Australia’s final pool game now means Fiji only have
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“Proud of everybody that’s been involved this week and just proud that I’m one of the people that gets to play a role in what we came here to do.” Tommy Fleetwood enjoyed the winning moment as Europe regained the Ryder Cup from a battling United States on Sunday, wrapping up a 16.5-11.5 victory despite
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The Ryder Cup returned to the hands of the Europeans on Sunday as they attained the 14 1/2 points needed after Rickie Fowler conceded a birdie to Tommy Fleetwood on the 16th hole. Team Europe has not lost on European soil since 1993 in England. They were coming off a loss at Whistling Straits in
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TOULOUSE, France – Japan skills coach Riki Flutey said Saturday that a much-reduced error rate had helped the Brave Blossoms to beat Samoa at the Rugby World Cup on Thursday and had put the team in a good place ahead of its winner-takes-all clash with Argentina. “A lot of games, when we do play with
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Slow Down Andy, who has always been close but never won a Grade 1 race, checked off that box with a win in Saturday’s Grade 1 $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita. The win gives him a free pass into the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 4 at the same track. The 4-year-old colt’s
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Rain on Saturday forced the World Cup warm-up match between Australia and the Netherlands to be called off after Mitchell Starc claimed a hat-trick in a stellar all-round show. Chasing 167 in a reduced 23-overs-a-side match, the Netherlands were 84-6 in 14.2 overs when rain had the final say in Thiruvananthapuram. Watch every match of
READ MOREEurope has a five-point lead and history on its side in the Ryder Cup. No team has ever come back from that large a deficit going into the singles session. The Americans have not won on the road before a flag-waving crowd in 30 years. The tension Saturday evening told a different story. Patrick Cantlay,
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Things are getting heated in Rome at the 44th Ryder Cup. Rory McIlroy, after losing 1-up with Matt Fitzpatrick to Patrick Cantlay and Wyndham Clark, went after Justin Thomas’ caddie, Jim “Bones’’ Mackay, in the parking lot at shortly after the match, the NY Post reports. Why McIlroy was incensed at Mackay was not known,
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