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Carrying the lead into the third round of the WGC-Cadillac Championship, Rory McIlroy wilted under the Doral, Florida, sun at Trump National Doral in the final round. McIlroy will have to keep waiting for his first PGA Tour win of 2016 after shooting a two-over 74 Sunday to finish tied for third for the tournament. McIlroy’s poor final round snaps what was an impressive streak of...
Published: October 19, 2015
Kevin Na and Emiliano Grillo needed not one but two playoff holes to determine the winner of the 2015 Frys.com Open, and when all was said and done, Grillo came out on top with a birdie on the second hole in sudden death Sunday. Both Na and Grillo finished one stroke ahead of Jason Bohn, Justin Thomas and Tyrone Van Aswegen. You can view the full leaderboard below: With the victory, Grillo will take...
Published: October 6, 2015
Less than five months after taking the job, Juan Carlos Osorio has left Sao Paulo, and the 53-year-old will succeed Miguel Herrera as the permanent Mexico national team coach, per ESPN FC. Despite Osorio’s relative inexperience in either national team or Mexican football, his hiring doesn’t come as a major surprise. In late September, he admitted coaching Mexico would help him fulfill one...
Published: October 2, 2015
For better or worse, Wayne Rooney has been one of the first names on the teamsheet for the England national team over the past few years. That may no longer be the case. Three Lions coach Roy Hodgson maintains that Rooney continues to be a key figure for the team, but the stranglehold he once seemingly had on a starting spot is nonexistent. “At the moment, that day has not arrived and, with any...
Published: September 14, 2015
After he beat Novak Djokovic at the Western & Southern Open in August, Roger Federer looked like a serious threat to capture his sixth U.S. Open title. Instead, the 34-year-old Swiss star couldn’t get the better of Djokovic this time around, losing in four sets, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, on Sunday. In front of a pro-Federer crowd, the Swiss legend attempted to thwart Djokovic’s...
Published: September 14, 2015
Novak Djokovic overcame a lengthy rain delay and the greatest men’s tennis player of his generation to win the 2015 U.S. Open, defeating Roger Federer 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 in Sunday night’s final. In doing so, Djokovic became the eighth men’s player to capture at least 10 major titles. According to ESPN Stats & Info, his U.S. Open title also put him in impressive company: The Nation‘s...
Published: September 7, 2015
Novak Djokovic didn’t drop a set during his first three wins at the 2015 U.S. Open, but that run ended Sunday in the fourth round against Roberto Bautista Agut. Despite that, the tournament’s top seed advanced to the quarterfinals following a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory. Djokovic was coming off a third-round win over Andreas Seppi that he described as a “really, really...
Published: September 6, 2015
Three former champions were all in action Sunday at the 2015 U.S. Open, and that was just in the first group of matches as Serena Williams, Venus Williams and Marin Cilic all advanced. The tournament is starting to sort the contenders from the pretenders as the fourth round got underway. Reaching the quarterfinal is almost an imaginary standard by which to judge whether a player—especially for...
Published: September 3, 2015
With temperatures reaching 90 degrees, many players at the 2015 U.S. Open are struggling to deal with the humid conditions in Flushing, New York—none more so than Jack Sock. The 22-year-old was forced to retire in the second round against Ruben Bemelmans. Leading the match 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 1-2, Sock slowly collapsed in the fourth set while receiving medical treatment, per Sports Illustrated Tennis....
Published: September 2, 2015
The 2015 U.S. Open continues to be anything but a cakewalk for Rafael Nadal, as he labored in the second round against Diego Schwartzman on Wednesday evening. The two-time U.S. Open champion won in straight sets, 7-6(5), 6-3, 7-5, but the result nearly could’ve gone the other way given how poor Nadal looked for stretches. In his first match of the tournament, Nadal received a major test from...