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Alyssa Thomas leads Mercury in revenge matchup against Fever

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Alyssa Thomas leads Mercury in revenge matchup against Fever

Phoenix forward Alyssa Thomas made WNBA history Tuesday when she became the first player in league history with consecutive triple-doubles in the Mercury’s rout of Connecticut.

Now, Phoenix has revenge in mind for Thursday, when the Mercury host the Indiana Fever in a rematch of the Fever’s 107-101 victory eight days earlier in Indianapolis.

“We need to get them back,” said Phoenix’s Satou Sabally, who had 23 points and six rebounds in the 82-66 victory over the Sun after missing one game for personal reasons.

The Fever again are expected to be without star guard Caitlin Clark, who has missed the last eight games with a right groin injury and has played only 13 games this season.

Thomas had 13 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists against the Sun, two days after having a 10/10/10 line in an 83-67 victory over the Chicago Sky.

“A.T.’s just legendary,” Sabally said. “You really have to be ready and be in the game all the time with her. It keeps your brain on. She will make the right play.”

Even without Clark, the Fever had their season high in points in their victory over the Mercury. Guard Aari McDonald had a season-high 27 points, and the Fever shot 51.6 percent from the field.

The Fever had a five-game winning streak broken in a 100-91 loss at Los Angeles on Tuesday, the third of a four-game road trip that will conclude in Phoenix.

Kelsey Mitchell had 34 points, her third 30-point game of the season, but the Fever shot only 44.4 percent from the field. The Sparks shot 56.1 percent and had a 32-27 rebounding edge.

Thomas had 32 points, 15 rebounds and seven assists in the first game against Indiana, becoming the fourth player in WNBA history to have a game of at least 30 points, 15 rebounds and five assists. Candace Parker had two, while Tina Thompson and Tina Charles each had one.

The Indiana-Los Angeles game was interrupted when a fan threw a sex toy on the floor.

“We don’t know who those people are,” Mitchell said. “We like to think we come to play the game and people want to see us play. We can’t control everybody’s actions.

“To the person or people who are doing it who think it is cool, that is up to them.

“To a higher power, we’ll keep praying for you.”

–Field Level Media

PGA News: Report: Trump-owned courses to host PGA Tour, LIV events in 2026

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PGA News: Report: Trump-owned courses to host PGA Tour, LIV events in 2026

Courses owned by President Donald Trump will be hosting events on both the PGA Tour and LIV Golf for the first time in the same year in 2026.

LIV Golf has announced it will return to Trump National Golf Club Washington D.C. in Sterling, Va., next year. The Saudi Arabia-backed tour has had an event on a Trump-owned course every year since its inception in 2022. It last held an event at the Trump National Golf Club in 2023. The 2026 event, scheduled for May 8-10, will be one of 14 events on the tour.

The PGA Tour, meanwhile, has scheduled an event at Trump National Doral, just outside Miami, according to Sports Business Journal. The tournament is expected to be played April 30-May 3, which slots in three weeks following the Masters and two weeks ahead of the PGA Championship.

Per SBJ, the tournament could be a signature event that includes a $20 million purse.

Both LIV Golf and the PGA Tour have a history of hosting events at Doral. LIV tournaments were played there for the first four years of its existence, 2022 to 2025, before the circuit didn’t return to the Blue Monster this year.

That opened the door for the PGA Tour to return to Doral and add to its 54-year history of events there. The last one was the 2016 World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship.

–Field Level Media

Streaking Dream set sights on season sweep of Sky

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Streaking Dream set sights on season sweep of Sky

As the Atlanta Dream continue to surge, the Chicago Sky finally have a positive result to build upon.

The Dream look to record a fourth consecutive victory and sweep the season series from the host Sky on Thursday night.

Atlanta (18-11) currently sits tied for third in the WNBA standings and won its last two games by a combined 39 points without injured stars Rhyne Howard (knee) and Brittney Griner (neck).

On Sunday, the Dream trailed 10-0, then 23-12 after one quarter, but regrouped to shoot 56.3 percent en route to a 99-83 win over Washington.

Brionna Jones had 23 points, Allisha Gray scored 22 and Naz Hillmon recorded 14 points and 13 rebounds for Atlanta, which has scored at least 90 points four times during its recent 5-1 stretch.

“We have just been playing well,” Atlanta coach Karl Smesko said. “Our players have been pretty locked into what we want to accomplish.

They’ve been playing great.”

Atlanta will also be looking for a fourth consecutive win on the road.

The Dream were victorious in Chicago, 86-49, on July 16. With Sky stars Angel Reese and Ariel Atkins out due to injury, the Dream limited the Sky (8-21) to just 25.4 percent shooting in that most recent meeting.

Atlanta has won each of the previous three 2025 meetings with Chicago by at least 13 points.

While Reese sat for the sixth time in eight games and could be out again for this contest, Atkins returned from a seven-game absence to score 15 points in 24 minutes as Chicago shot 54 percent while snapping an eight-game skid with Tuesday’s 78-64 home victory over the Mystics.

The Sky last won back-to-back games July 9 and 12.

“I never want our team to give up on ourselves,” Atkins told WCIU Chicago.

“We just have to keep fighting. … There’s no point in fighting the whole season to give up now.”

Chicago’s Kamilla Cardoso recorded her seventh consecutive double-double with 16 points and 13 rebounds Tuesday. She’s averaged 14 points and 11.3 rebounds during that stretch.

Meanwhile, Jones has averaged 17.7 points in the last three games for Atlanta.

–Field Level Media

PGA News: 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship: Preview, Props, Best Bets

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PGA News: 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship: Preview, Props, Best Bets

The 2025 FedEx Cup playoffs officially tee off with this week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship, which begins Thursday at TPC Southwind in Memphis.

Only the top 70 players at the end of the regular season qualified for this week’s event, and the field sits at 69 with Rory McIlroy opting to skip the first playoff leg. Our golf experts preview the tournament and share their favorite prop picks along with best bets to win this week.

FEDEX ST. JUDE CHAMPIONSHIP
Location: Memphis, Aug. 7-10
Course: TPC Southwind (Par 70, 7,288 Yards)
Purse: $20M (Winner: $3.6M)
Defending Champion: Hideki Matsuyama
FedEx Cup leader: Scottie Scheffler

HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: Thursday-Friday: 2-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel); Saturday: 1-3 p.m. (GC), 3-6 p.m. (NBC); Sunday: Noon-2 p.m. (GC), 2-6 p.m. (NBC)
Streaming (ESPN+): Thursday-Sunday: 8 a.m.-6 p.m. ET
X: @FedExChamp

PROP PICKS
–Hideki Matsuyama to Beat Ben Griffin (-105 at DraftKings): Based on 2025 to date, this appears a mismatch in the wrong direction, with Griffin having twice as many wins as Matsuyama has top-10 finishes — the latter’s lone one coming in a victory at the season-opening The Sentry. But keep in mind that not only is Matsuyama the defending champion at TPC Southwind, he has also found far better form with three consecutive top-20s entering this week. Griffin is making his playoff debut, and while he posted a T11 last week, that did follow consecutive missed cuts.

–Sepp Straka Top 20 Finish (+148 at BetRivers): Considering we see Straka — a two-time winner already this season — as a pre-tournament threat, we certainly see a top-20 finish as well within reach. Remember, he only needs to beat 49 players in the field for this to pay out. Straka has been on a yoyo of late, mixing a win at the Truist, a solo third at the Memorial and a seventh at the Scottish Open with four other results of T45 or worse.

–Winning Score Over 262.5 (-120 at DraftKings): Granted, TPC Southwind has only played host to the event three previous times, and Matsuyama set the scoring record among those with his 263 total that beat Viktor Hovland and Xander Schauffele by two strokes.

2025 Prop Pick Record: 21-24

BEST BETS
–Scottie Scheffler (+280 at DraftKings) is coming off a victory at The Open as he attempts to become the first back-to-back winner of the FedEx Cup. Despite his enormous pre-tournament favorite odds, Scheffler leads the field by a wide margin with 18 percent of the money and 22 percent of the total bets backing him to win.
–Schauffele (+1800) has yet to win this season, but he has consecutive top-10s entering this week and needs a solid result to advance to the BMW. He is fifth in the field with 5 percent of both the money and total bets backing him this week.
–Tommy Fleetwood (+2200) has yet to win a stroke play event on U.S. soil, but he does have 12 top-25s in 16 starts this season, including a runner-up at the Travelers. The Englishman ranks third in the field with 7 percent of the money supporting him to break through this week.
–Justin Thomas (+2500) has a win at the RBC Heritage among seven top-10s in 17 starts this season.
–Matt Fitzpatrick (+2800) has been in excellent form with a pair of T4s and a pair of T8s in his past four starts.
–Hovland (+3500) offers longshot odds despite finishing second here last year and winning the FedEx Cup in 2023. It has been a largely frustrating 2025 for Hovland, but he did win the Valspar and has been backed by 11 percent of the outright winner money wagered at the book.
–Straka (+4000) lost in a playoff here in 2022 and is already a multiple-time winner on tour this year. However, he has garnered just 4 percent of the total outright winner money thus far.

NOTES
–The top 50 players in the standings after this week will advance to the BMW Championship, with the top 30 after that event qualifying for the season-ending Tour Championship.
–Schauffele and Tony Finau are tied for the longest active streaks, having qualified for the playoffs for the eighth consecutive season.
–Daniel Berger qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 2021.
–Aldrich Potgieter, at No. 43 in the FedEx Cup standings, is the only one of the 35 rookies this season to advance to the playoffs.
–Chris Kirk was the lone player to move into the Top 70 last week, jumping from No. 73 to No. 61 with a T5 at the Wyndham.

TOP 50 BUBBLE
Tom Hoge (No. 40), Matt Fitzpatrick (No. 41), Schauffele (No. 42), Potgieter (No. 43), Harry Hall (No. 44), Akshay Bhatia (No. 45), Si Woo Kim (No. 46), Jake Knapp (No. 47), Jordan Spieth (No. 48), Wyndham Clark (No. 49), Min Woo Lee (No. 50), J.T. Poston (No. 51), Kurt Kitayama (No. 52), Bud Cauley (No. 53), Joe Highsmith (No. 54), Aaron Rai (No. 55), Jhonattan Vegas (No. 56), Max Greyserman (No. 57), Stephan Jaeger (No. 58), Mackenzie Hughes (No. 59) and Finau (No. 60).

–Field Level Media

WTA News: Victoria Mboko, Naomi Osaka to meet for National Bank Open title

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WTA News: Victoria Mboko, Naomi Osaka to meet for National Bank Open title

Victoria Mboko is learning quickly how to handle the most difficult situations on the WTA Tour.

The 18-year-old Canadian performed the greatest feat of her journey through the National Bank Open in Montreal by rallying to defeat No. 9 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, 1-6, 7-5, 7-6 (4).

Mboko will face resurgent Naomi Osaka, who rallied in the second set tiebreaker to defeat No. 17 Clara Tauson of Denmark, 6-2, 7-6 (7). Osaka will make her first appearance in a WTA 1000 final since the 2022 Miami Open.

Mboko, who defeated top seed Coco Gauff in the fourth round on Saturday, staved off a match point in the third set and broke big-serving Rybakina in the final two games of the set to force a tie-breaker.

Moreover, the Toronto resident suffered a fall early in the third set and called for a medical timeout to tape an ailing wrist. Mboko was broken in the fifth game of the set and the 2022 Wimbledon champion served for the match at 5-4. She had a match point at 40-30, but produced an unforced error and Mboko earned the next two points to knot the set at 5-5.

Rybakina broke to lead 6-5, but Mboko responded, breaking her opponent at love to send the match to a tiebreaker.

The breaker was knotted at 4-4, but Mboko came up with winning forehands on the next two points and a Rybakina error on match point sent the Canadian crowd into a frenzy and Mboko into a state of disbelief.

“I had everyone supporting me and pushing me through,” said Mboko in her on-court interview. “Without you guys, I don’t think I would’ve been able to pull this through.”

Mboko became the first Canadian player to defeat three Grand Slam champions (Rybakina, Gauff, Sofia Kenin) in a WTA event during the open era. She is just the second Canadian in the last 56 years (Bianca Andreescu, 2019) to compete in the finals of her country’s national open.

Osaka, who had to retire and gift Tauson the 2025 Auckland title, won 13 of 15 first serve points in the first set, broke Tauson twice and captured the first set. Osaka got up a break in the second set, but Tauson responded late to force a tiebreaker. Tauson led, 5-2, in the tiebreaker, but the four-time Grand Slam champion rallied to win it 9-7.

The finals are set for Thursday at 6:00 p.m. ET.

–Field Level Media

Sparks look to continue hot stretch against league-worst Sun

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Sparks look to continue hot stretch against league-worst Sun

Tied for the WNBA’s best record over the last 10 games, the surging Los Angeles Sparks look to continue rolling on Thursday when they host the last-place Connecticut Sun.

Los Angeles (13-15) improved to 8-2 since July 5, a run better than any other team in the league other than the WNBA-best Minnesota Lynx, with its 100-91 victory over Indiana on Tuesday.

It was the Sparks’ second consecutive game reaching triple digits — coming on the heels of a dramatic 108-106 double-overtime win at Seattle last Friday — and their fourth 100-plus-point outing in five games.

Los Angeles is now third in the league in scoring offense at 86 points per game, behind only last year’s WNBA Finals participants and the current top two teams in the standings, Minnesota and New York.

Sharpshooter Kelsey Plum, whose 2.5 3-pointers made per game are tied for third-most in the league, ranks third in the WNBA at 20.4 points per contest.

In recent outings, however, second-year forward Rickea Jackson has emerged as an offensive focal point with at least 24 points in three of the last four contests.

“Feistiness. Competitive spirit,” Jackson said when asked what she has taken from playing with the veteran Plum. “The confidence she instills in me, each and every game … she doesn’t know how much that means to me.”

As Los Angeles begins to find its groove, it has played its way into the postseason race. The Sparks trail Golden State by just one game for eighth place and the final spot in the playoffs.

Connecticut (5-23), meanwhile, finds itself in the basement as it continues a four-game road swing. The Sun fell to 1-12 away from home this season with the first game on their trip, an 82-66 setback on Tuesday at Phoenix.

The loss coincides with a flurry of rumors surrounding the organization’s future following the Sun’s purchase by a group that includes Steve Pagliuca, a minority owner in the NBA’s Boston Celtics.

While Connecticut’s long-term future is shrouded in uncertainty, Sun coach Rachid Meziane said that addressing the team’s issues in the immediate future requires a better first-quarter effort.

“We have to learn to start the game better,” he said following Tuesday’s loss. “Especially because we have a couple of games away [in a row].”

Slow starts contribute to defensive woes plaguing Connecticut. The Sun have allowed 86.9 points per game this season — more than any team except, coincidentally, Los Angeles at 88.1.

In two prior matchups with the Sparks, both played amid Los Angeles’ current run, Connecticut surrendered 92 and 101 points — both Sparks wins.

–Field Level Media

PGA News: Scottie Scheffler leads favorites as playoffs begin at St. Jude Championship

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PGA News: Scottie Scheffler leads favorites as playoffs begin at St. Jude Championship

MEMPHIS — Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 golfer in the world, enters the FedEx St. Jude Championship — the first leg of the season-ending PGA Tour playoffs — on a successful stretch. Scheffler will be coming off 11 consecutive top-10 finishes.

With that momentum, which includes last month’s Open title, Scheffler has handled the FedEx Cup playoffs preparation a bit differently than he would have for an event earlier in the season. For Scheffler, at this stage of the golf year, he’s finding that less is better.

“That extra practice is maybe only going to be draining for me a little bit, and that’s something that I’ve learned to manage as my career has gone on,” he said Wednesday from TPC Southwind, site of the St. Jude Championship. “I would say my prep week last week definitely looked a bit different than it would have looked before the Scottish Open and definitely looked a little bit different than it would have looked if you go back to the beginning of the year when I was coming off injury.

“So making sure I’m rested, ready to play. My game is in a good spot, and I feel like some extra practice at this point in the year can almost be detrimental in terms of just physical and mental fatigue.”

The opening tournament of the playoffs features 69 of the top 70 golfers in the FedEx Cup standings, including Scheffler, defending champion Hideki Matsuyama of Japan and resurgent Justin Thomas. Reigning Masters champion Rory McIlroy decided to skip the first leg and is the only eligible golfer among the top 70 sitting out the tournament.

With four wins this season, including two victories in majors, Scheffler is among the favorites. Expected to earn a fourth straight PGA Tour Player of the Year award, he is looking forward to playing on a TPC Southwind course that underwent renovation after last year’s St. Judge Championship concluded.

Each of the 18 greens was rebuilt and resurfaced. The tee boxes were also resurfaced, and Bermuda grass around the greens was replaced by tightly mowed Zeon Zoysia.

“They did a good job, I think, with the runoff areas around the greens here,” Scheffler said. “The new greens right now are really firm. I think this is a golf course that’s typically been pretty popular on Tour, so I appreciated they didn’t come in when they renovated it and just completely change the golf course.

“I think they had a really good base for a solid golf course where ball-striking is important. You’ve got to hit it well around this place. I think they did a really good job. The golf course is healthy. They kept the DNA of what’s made this course really good and then enhanced it with some of the pitching areas.”

Harris English, enjoying the best year of his career, returns to the site of his first PGA Tour victory. He won the event when it was part of the regular-season schedule in 2013.

“After playing (practice rounds) the last couple days, the improvements obviously with the new greens, the greens are really firm,” English said. “I feel like the rough is up from years past. Even (Wednesday), hitting some balls in the rough, it’s hard to find them. You get this gnarly Bermuda rough, it’s so hard to figure out if it’s going to jump, if it’s going to come out dead.

McIlroy’s absence has created some off-course controversy. He will easily qualify for the second stage of the playoffs next week at the BMW Championship at Caves Valley Golf Club near Baltimore, but PGA Tour officials are concerned he elected to bypass the first leg.

Those who finish Sunday ranked in the top 50 not only move on to Baltimore but are also eligible for each of the eight PGA Tour signature events in 2025.

–Phil Stukenborg, Field Level Media

WTA News: Venus Williams on ’26 plans: Shouldn’t ‘ever rule me out’

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WTA News: Venus Williams on ’26 plans: Shouldn’t ‘ever rule me out’

Anyone who watched Venus Williams compete on the WTA Tour over the past three decades had to come away with at least one immutable truth.

She is a fighter.

Many of the tennis pundits and even Venus’ most ardent supporters had to believe that the 2024 Miami Open would be her final hurrah. Her latest — and most serious health issues — surely would lead the seven-time Grand Slam champion to put the racquets in the closet.

But not so fast. Williams earned a wild-card entry to the Citi Open in Washington, D.C. last month and knocked off 35th-ranked Peyton Stearns. Williams, 45, became the oldest player to earn a WTA singles victory since Martina Navratilova won a match at Wimbledon in 2004 as a 47-year-old.

She would lose in the next round to Magdalena Frech, but proved to herself that 45 is just a number.

“There’s one thing that I know: You’re never too young or too old to win or lose,” Williams said as she prepares to compete in the WTA 1000 event in Cincinnati. “Winning and losing knows no age. All that matters is that I’m prepared and ready. And the longer I play, the more I get into it, the more I train, the better I get.”

One year ago, Williams, who was diagnosed with Sjogren’s syndrome in 2011, fought a more serious health battle. She underwent surgery to remove fibroids and a large focal adenomyoma that was embedded in the muscle of her uterus.

She posted this on Instagram recently: “I was told I was inoperable. I was told I could bleed to death on the table. I was told to get a surrogate and forget the hope to carry my own children. I was misdiagnosed. I went untreated for years and years and years. It’s so important to advocate for your health! I suffered from severe anemia, debilitating pain, excessive bleeding and abnormally frequent menstrual cycles for many years. It affected my tennis and the trajectory of my career.

I told my story so other women don’t have to go through this and so they can get better sooner.”

The road to recovery was slow, but returning to the courts never left her thoughts.

“At the end of the day, you have to live your life on your own terms,” Williams said, as she prepares for an opening-round match against Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro. “Your terms should be yours. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says or what anyone else thinks. If you get to live life on your own terms, that’s a life well-lived, and I firmly believe in that.

“And I do what I do because I want to live life the way I want to, unapologetically, with no regrets and on my terms. … Make your terms and don’t surrender.”

After Cincinnati, Venus will compete in the 2025 US Open, partnering with Reilly Opelka in the new mixed doubles format and, hopefully, earning a wild-card entry into singles competition.

Will that be Venus’ final tennis chapter? Probably not. Could she compete again at age 46 in 2026?

“I don’t think you should ever rule me out,” she said.

–Field Level Media

PGA News: Golf Glance: FedExCup playoffs begin; LIV returns to Chicago

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PGA News: Golf Glance: FedExCup playoffs begin; LIV returns to Chicago

Field Level Media’s Golf Glance provides weekly news and storylines from each of the major North American golf tours.

PGA TOUR
LAST TOURNAMENT: Wyndham Championship (Cameron Young)
THIS WEEK: FedEx St. Jude Championship, Memphis, Aug. 7-10
Course: TPC Southwind (Par 70, 7,288 Yards)
Purse: $20M (Winner: $3.6M)
Defending Champion: Hideki Matsuyama
FedEx Cup leader: Scottie Scheffler
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: Thursday-Friday: 2-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel); Saturday: 1-3 p.m. (GC), 3-6 p.m. (NBC); Sunday: 12-2 p.m. (GC), 2-6 p.m. (NBC)
Streaming (ESPN+): Thursday-Sunday: 8 a.m.-6 p.m. ET
X: @FedExChamp
NOTES: The top 70 players in the FedExCup standings qualified for the first playoff event, with only No. 2 Rory McIlroy opting not to play this week. The top 50 after this week will advance to the BMW Championship, with the top 30 after that event qualifying for the season-ending Tour Championship. … This is the fourth time TPC Southwind has played host to the event. … Xander Schauffele and Tony Finau are tied for the longest active streaks, having qualified for the playoffs for the eighth consecutive season. … Daniel Berger qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 2021. … Aldrich Potgieter at No. 43 in the FedExCup, is the only one of the 35 rookies this season to advance to the playoffs. … Chris Kirk was the lone player to move into the Top 70 last week, jumping from No. 73 to No. 61 with a T5 at the Wyndham.
TOP 50 BUBBLE: Tom Hoge (No. 40), Matt Fitzpatrick (No. 41), Schauffele (No. 42), Potgieter (No. 43), Harry Hall (No. 44), Akshay Bhatia (No. 45), Si Woo Kim (No. 46), Jake Knapp (No. 47), Jordan Spieth (No. 48), Wyndham Clark (No. 49), Min Woo Lee (No. 50), J.T. Poston (No. 51), Kurt Kitayama (No. 52), Bud Cauley (No. 53), Joe Highsmith (No. 54), Aaron Rai (No. 55), Jhonattan Vegas (No. 56), Max Greyserman (No. 57), Stephan Jaeger (No. 58), Mackenzie Hughes (No. 59) and Finau (No. 60).
BEST BETS: Scottie Scheffler (+280 at DraftKings) is coming off his win at The Open as he attempts to become the first back-to-back winner of the FedExCup. … Schauffele (+1800) has yet to win this season, but has consecutive top-10s entering this week and needs a solid result to advance to the BMW. … Tommy Fleetwood (+2200) has yet to win a stroke play event on U.S. soil, but does have 12 top-25s in 16 starts this season, including a runner-up at the Travelers. … Justin Thomas (+2500) had a win at the RBC Heritage among seven top-10s in 17 starts this season. … Matt Fitzpatrick (+2800) has been in excellent form with a pair of T4s and a pair of T8s in his past four starts. … Sepp Straka (+4000) lost in a playoff here in 2022 and is already a multiple-time winner on tour this year.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: BMW Championship, Owings Mills, Md., Aug. 14-17

LPGA TOUR
LAST TOURNAMENT: AIG Women’s Open (Miyu Yamashita)
THIS WEEK: OFF.
Race to the CME Globe leader: Jeeno Thitikul
NEXT TOURNAMENT: Portland Classic, Aug. 14-17

LIV GOLF LEAGUE
LAST TOURNAMENT: LIV Golf UK (Individual: Joaquin Niemann; Team: Legion XIII)
THIS WEEK: LIV Golf Chicago, Aug. 8-10
Course: Bolingbrook Golf Club (Par 71, 7,224 Yards)
Purse: Individual $20M (Winner: $4M); Team: $5M (Winners: $3M)
Defending Champions: Individual: Jon Rahm; Team: Crushers GC
Season Leaders: Individual: Joaquin Niemann; Team: Legion XIII
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV/Streaming: Friday: 12:05 p.m. ET (FOX, LIV Golf Plus); Saturday: 1:05 p.m. ET (FOX, LIV Golf Plus); Sunday: 10:05 a.m. ET (FOX, LIV Golf Plus)
X: @livgolf_league
NOTES: This is the 12th of 13 events on the 2025 schedule, which will be followed by the Team Championship Aug. 22-24 in Michigan. … Rahm won by three strokes over Niemann at Bolingbrook last year. … The field consists of 13 four-player teams competing in daily shotgun starts over 54 holes. Each team’s top three scores are counted for each round. … Niemann is the only player with multiple individual titles this season, having won five of the first 11 events, and leads the all-time LIV list with seven. … Legion XIII has won eight of its first 21 tournaments and has reached the podium five other times.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: LIV Golf Indianapolis, Aug. 15-17

PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS
LAST TOURNAMENT: ISPS Handa Senior Open (Padraig Harrington)
THIS WEEK: Boeing Classic, Snoqualmie, Wash., Aug. 8-10
Course: The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge (Par 72, 7,217 Yards)
Purse: $2.3M (Winner: $345,000)
Defending Champion: Stephen Ames
Charles Schwab Cup leader: Miguel Angel Jimenez
HOW TO FOLLOW
TV: Friday: 10 p.m.-Midnight ET (Golf Channel – Tape Delay); Saturday: 6-8 p.m. (GC); Sunday: 4-7 p.m. (GC)
X: @BoeingClassic
NOTES: The 78-player field will be competing in a 54-hole event. … Ames is the two-time defending champion, having tied the tournament scoring record of 19-under 197 in 2023 that was first set by Jerry Kelly in 2017. … Seattle native Fred Couples is joined in the field by fellow World Golf Hall of Fame members Ernie Els and Vijay Singh.
NEXT TOURNAMENT: Rogers Charity Classic, Calgary, Aug. 15-17

–Field Level Media

WTA News: Elina Svitolina slams bettors for ‘shameful’ abuse after loss

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WTA News: Elina Svitolina slams bettors for ‘shameful’ abuse after loss

Ukrainian tennis star Elina Svitolina lashed out on Instagram to detail the online abuse she received — including death threats and those celebrating Russia killing her countrymen — from frustrated gamblers following a recent loss.

The 10th-seeded Svitolina dropped a 6-2, 6-2 decision to Naomi Osaka on Tuesday at the Canadian Open in Montreal.

Svitolina, 30, posted messages of threats she received and racial slurs aimed at her husband, fellow tennis star Gael Monfils, who is Black. She also included a message that said it hoped Russia “kills all you (expletive) Ukrainians” as a war continues in her home country.

“To all the bettors: I’m a mom before I’m an athlete,” Svitolina wrote on Instagram. “The way you talk to women — to mothers — is SHAMEFUL. If your moms saw your messages, they’d be disgusted.”

–Field Level Media

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