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Collin Morikawa is banking that the fifth time is the charm with respect to his new caddie.
Mark Urbanek, a longtime caddie for Tony Finau, will be on the bag for the two-time major champion on Thursday at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis.
Urbanek is the fifth caddie used this season by Morikawa, who previously had JJ Jakovac until April. Since then, Morikawa has worked with Max Homa’s ex-caddie Joe Greiner, Billy Foster and college teammate KK Limbhasut.
Finau has Tim Tucker on the bag at TPC Southwind. Tucker was Bryson DeChambeau’s caddie when he won the 2020 U.S. Open
Morikawa, 28, has six career PGA Tour victories, with his last at the Zozo Championship in October 2023. He is ranked 19th in the FedExCup standings.
The San Jose Earthquakes acquired defensive midfielder Ronaldo Vieira from Italy’s UC Sampdoria on Thursday.
Vieira, 27, is signed through 2026 with options for 2027 and 2028 and will occupy an international roster slot.
The Guinea-Bissau native recorded one assist in 21 matches (12 starts) for Sampdoria in Serie B in 2024-25.
“I’m very excited to be coming to San Jose and play in front of the Earthquakes fans,” Vieira said in a news release. “I describe myself as a ball-winner–a guy who breaks the other team’s attack and then just give it to the guys who can go and get the goals. I think we can make that final push into the playoffs.”
Before joining Sampdoria in 2018, the former England youth international played for Leeds United from 2016-18.
Saturday’s match between the visiting Columbus Crew and New York City FC has been postponed due to required field maintenance at Citi Field.
The game has been rescheduled for Sept. 17 at Yankee Stadium.
“Following a high volume of events at Citi Field and the intense heat and weather conditions in New York City, the stadium’s grass sustained considerable wear and tear in recent weeks,” NYCFC announced Thursday.
“To ensure the best and safest playing surface for all athletes, the field has been resodded. As a result, only baseball events are permitted at Citi Field for a minimum of three weeks while the field fully recovers.”
NYCFC also pushed back its Sept. 19 match against Charlotte FC to Sept. 20, also at Yankee Stadium.
Kickoff times for both rescheduled dates will be announced as soon as possible.
The New York Mets are on the road this weekend with a three-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers. Their next game at Citi Field is Tuesday against the Atlanta Braves, the opener of a six-game homestand.
Fourth-seeded Ben Shelton rallied for the biggest championship of his career, recording a 6-7 (5), 6-4, 7-6 (3) win over 11th-seeded Karen Khachanov in the final of the National Bank Open on Thursday in Toronto.
Shelton, 22, earned his first ATP Masters 1000 title while becoming the youngest U.S. player to win a Masters 1000 event since Andy Roddick was the champion at Miami in 2004.
“It’s a surreal feeling,” Shelton said. “It’s been a long week, not an easy path to the final. My best tennis came out when it mattered most. I was clutch, I persevered, I was resilient. All the qualities I like to see in myself.”
After squandering three set points just before losing the first tiebreaker, Shelton got the only service break of the second set for a 5-4 lead. Khachanov had four break points in the following game but couldn’t level the set.
Neither player had a break point in the third set before Shelton won the first three points of the decisive tiebreaker and pulled away from there.
Shelton said of Khachanov, “Karen was bullying me around the court. The way he hit his forehand tonight, the way he was cutting off the court, the way he was serving, it felt like I had a freight train coming at me. So it was uncomfortable to move forward. The ball was coming at me even faster.
“But I started being able to redirect, get some big shots off of my own, and kind of flip the momentum of that match. So that was huge for me.”
The result will move Shelton up to a career-high ranking of sixth in the world ahead of the U.S. Open later this month.
Shelton had never been in a final of this magnitude previously, and he has never reached a Grand Slam final. His only previous tournament victories came at a hard-court event in Tokyo in 2023 and a clay-court event in Houston last year.
Shelton piled up a 16-3 edge in aces and won 80 percent of his first-serve points. He had more winners than Khachanov (38-29) but also more unforced errors (45-30).
Khachanov, a 29-year-old Russian, was competing in his second ATP Masters 1000 final, having won the Paris event in 2018. Like Shelton, he is a two-time Grand Slam semifinalist but has yet to reach a major final.
Cincinnati Open
Both U.S. players in action lost as first-round action got underway in Mason, Ohio.
Hungary’s Fabian Marozsan recorded a 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 victory over U.S. qualifier Colton Smith, and France’s Corentin Moutet got past the United States’ Mackenzie McDonald 7-5, 6-3.
Four qualifiers — France’s Terence Atmane and Adrian Mannarino, Colombia’s Daniel Elahi Galan and Hong Kong’s Coleman Wong — won their openers. Also advancing were Belgium’s Zizou Bergs, France’s Benjamin Bonzi and Arthur Rinderknech, Spain’s Roberto Carballes Baena and Pedro Martinez, Argentina’s Tomas Martin Etcheverry and Sebastian Baez, Brazil’s Joao Fonseca and Russia’s Roman Safiullin.
More than four decades after North Carolina State stunned Houston in the 1983 NCAA men’s basketball championship game, a North Carolina judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming the Wolfpack deserve NIL compensation stemming from their famed title run.
On Thursday morning, the Wake County (N.C.) Clerk of Superior Court posted the ruling made by Superior Court Judge Mark A. Davis that dismissed the suit filed in June 2024.
“In this lawsuit, twelve former members of North Carolina State University’s (“NC State”) 1983 NCAA men’s basketball championship team have sued the NCAA for using – without permission – their names, images, and likenesses contained in copyrighted game footage from that season,” Davis wrote at the start of a 44-page order. “Because their claims are untimely, barred by their failure to allege a violation of a legally enforceable right, and preempted by the federal Copyright Act, dismissal of this action in its entirety is appropriate.”
The members of the “Cardiac Pack,” which defeated Hakeem Olajuwon’s heavily favored Houston Cougars on Lorenzo Charles’ buzzer-beating dunk, stated the NCAA and its partners have capitalized illegally on footage such as the championship game’s dramatic finish — which started with Dereck Whittenberg’s last-second heave that missed the rim and concluded with NC State coach Jim Valvano spinning all over the court looking for people to hug.
NC State standouts Thurl Bailey, Terry Gannon and Cozell McQueen were among the players filing the suit. Neither Whittenberg, an associate athletic director at NC State, nor Sidney Lowe, a Detroit Pistons assistant coach, were part of the suit. One player, Quinton Leonard III, was represented by the administrator of his estate. Charles, who died on June 27, 2011, in a bus accident, was not represented.
The NCAA asked the court to dismiss the suit, citing a ruling made in April that rejected claims by Kansas’ Mario Chalmers — who hit a famous shot near the end of the 2008 NCAA title game — and others that they deserve NIL compensation for March Madness advertisements. The judge in that case noted a four-year statute of limitations for federal antitrust violations.
The former NC State players’ lawyer, Raleigh-based Stacy Miller, did not agree with Davis’ ruling.
“This case has always been about standing up for young athletes and shining a spotlight on the NCAA’s abusive practices and continued profiteering off its historical wrongs,” Miller told WRAL.
Smith Entertainment Group, the owners of the NHL’s Utah Mammoth, filed a federal lawsuit against a hockey equipment company to escalate their trademark dispute.
The franchise formerly known as the Coyotes moved from Arizona to Utah before the 2024-25 NHL season and spent its first season there known as the Utah Hockey Club. In May, the team revealed its permanent name to be the Mammoth, with an image of a woolly mammoth’s face protruding from a mountain serving as the logo.
The equipment company, Mammoth Hockey, sent a cease-and-desist letter arguing that the Utah team name could lead to consumer confusion in the market. Mammoth Hockey sells oversized hockey gear bags, though its logo and colors do not resemble Utah’s.
Smith Entertainment Group disagrees that the Mammoth team name hurts Mammoth Hockey’s business dealings.
Both parties released statements to the Deseret News in Salt Lake City on Thursday.
“Utah Mammoth and the NHL believe strongly that we have the right to use the name Utah Mammoth under federal and state law, and that our use will not harm the defendant or its business in any way,” the team’s statement said. “We have taken this action only after careful consideration based on the defendant’s position. We are not able to comment further on ongoing legal matters.”
Mammoth Hockey co-founder Erik Olson wrote in a statement to the Deseret News, “Mammoth Hockey intends to vigorously defend the litigation recently commenced against it by Utah Mammoth of the National Hockey League and protect its longstanding trademark used in connection with the hockey goods it has manufactured and sold for the past 10 years.”
Asher Hong is in a strong position to capture his second U.S. Gymnastics Championships all-around title, as the Olympic bronze medalist built a record lead after the opening night of competition on Thursday in New Orleans.
The 21-year-old Stanford student recorded 85.585 points on Thursday, leaving him well ahead of Oklahoma’s Fuzzy Benas (81.105) and Stanford’s Colt Walker (81.058).
“Just a little bit better than training,” a joking Hong said on Peacock. “All the work in the gym is what makes it happen here. As long as I know I put in the work in the gym, I can come to the competition confident, without any worries, without any regrets.”
According to NBC Sports, Hong’s 4.48-point lead is the record after the first of two days at the men’s national championship under the current format (since 2006). The old mark of 3.7 was set by Paul Hamm in 2008.
Hong, the 2023 U.S. all-around champ, sits in second place on the floor exercise (14.808), the still rings (14.818) and the parallel bars (14.100). He was part of the U.S. team that finished third overall at the Paris Olympics last year.
Benas is third on the high bar (13.655), while Walker is the leader on the parallel bars (14.408).
Reigning all-around champion Brody Malone isn’t in contention to retain the title as he is sitting out the vault and floor exercise as he nurses a right knee injury.
Arguably the most famous person in the competition is “Pommel Horse Guy” from the Paris Games, Stephen Nedoroscik. The Olympic bronze medalist in his specialty, he sits in fifth place on the pommel horse at 14.200.
Following his success last summer, he didn’t get back to training until May.
“I literally thought it was impossible for me to be back on this stage this quickly, but I’ve done it, I did a routine and I’m happy with it,” he told NBC Sports.
The women’s competition — minus Olympic champions Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey — begins Friday night.
Babatunde Oladotun, considered the top high school recruit in the class of 2027, is reclassifying to the class of 2026 as he prepares to graduate next spring from Maryland’s Blake High School.
Oladotun, 16, expects to remain a top-10 prospect when the next recruiting rankings are updated. He will turn 17 in December.
“First and foremost, I am ahead of schedule academically and will graduate next year,” Oladuton told ESPN. “Most of my life, I have played up in age and after playing in the 17U division for Team Durant, I felt comfortable. I have gained 20 pounds over the last year and it never felt like I was playing up.”
Several high-profile programs are already attempting to land the 6-foot-9 forward, including Maryland, Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Gonzaga.
Oladotun plans to visit Maryland and Virginia Tech first, and previously made unofficial visits to UCLA and USC last year.
“We are looking for a coach that has a long history of teaching and winning,” his father, Ibrahim, told ESPN. “Someone who knows how to use a big guard and has a history of coaching big guards. A coach that also plays an NBA-style offense with quick actions.”
Oladotun burst onto the scene after adding 20 pounds over the past year and starring for Team Durant’s 17U team, combining sharp-shooting ability from 3-point range with a deft touch inside the arc.
By reclassifying, Oladotun becomes a favorite to be invited to next year’s McDonald’s All American boys game with the potential to be a top-10 draft pick in 2027.
Oladotun’s father, Ibrahim Oladotun, played two years at Virginia Tech in the early 1990s after beginning his journey in junior college, averaging 2.6 points and 2.6 rebounds.
Babatunde follows the path taken by former top prospects AJ Dybantsa and Cooper Flagg, who also reclassified to begin their college careers early.
Friday night might just show everyone how much trouble the Montreal Alouettes are really in.
If they can’t beat the visiting Edmonton Elks, when can they be expected to win again with starting quarterback Davis Alexander on the shelf?
It certainly wasn’t Saturday night, when Montreal was boat-raced 34-6 at home by Saskatchewan. Fill-in quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson was again ineffective, completing 15 of 26 passes for 126 yards and tossing an interception. He was briefly benched in the third quarter but returned when Caleb Evans failed to provide a spark.
“A lot of things went wrong,” Bethel-Thompson told the Montreal Gazette. “First and foremost, the quarterback didn’t execute. I could have made some plays that would have kept us on the field. After that performance last week, I definitely want to bounce back.”
Injuries haven’t helped the Alouettes (5-3). Besides Alexander’s absence, the team continues to play without receivers Austin Mack and Tyson Philpot. And safety Marc-Antoine Dequoy (shoulder) will also miss Friday’s game, along with center Justin Lawrence (knee).
While Montreal fields a battered roster, Edmonton (1-6) owns the league’s worst record. It lost 28-24 on Saturday to visiting Hamilton when receiver Kaion Julien-Grant dropped a potential game-winning touchdown in the last seconds.
The Elks have shown signs of life in narrow losses the last two weeks against division leaders Saskatchewan and Hamilton with Cody Fajardo replacing Tre Ford at quarterback.
Fajardo, who led the Alouettes to the 2023 Grey Cup title, hit his first 17 passes last week against Hamilton and has thrown for 603 yards over the past two games.
Edmonton’s playoff hopes are already on something akin to life support, given it must pass three other teams over the last 11 games of the season. But Fajardo said the team still retains belief.
“‘Process through pain,’ I think, is what we’re going through right now, and learning through pain,” Fajardo said. “We kind of have a fork in the road right now. We can either go one way, stay positive, keep grinding, know we’re close — we just took two of the best teams in the league to a one-possession game — or we can just go the other way and say, ‘You know what, the season’s out of reach.’
“I’m not getting any of that second part in that locker room.”
The Alouettes aim for a season sweep after toppling the Elks 38-28 on June 19 in Alberta.
Sydney Sweeney wearing Oscar de la Renta with Fred Leighton jewelry arrives at the World Premiere Of Columbia Pictures’ ‘Madame Web’ held at the Regency Village Theatre on February 12, 2024 in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency)
CWEB Celebrity News Exclusive – Sydney Sweeney has effortlessly cemented her status as one of Hollywood’s most captivating stars, commanding attention not only for her riveting performances but also for her magnetic presence off-screen. Whether she’s dominating the silver screen, gracing high-fashion campaigns, or making headlines with her personal life, the Euphoria sensation remains an enigmatic figure of desire and admiration.
Recently single, the White Lotus alumna has reportedly become the most sought-after woman in the celebrity dating sphere. With her striking blonde allure, undeniable talent, and unapologetic ambition, it’s no surprise that A-list actors, elite athletes, and high-profile suitors are vying for her attention.
A Graceful Exit from a Long-Term Relationship
Sweeney’s split from her former fiancé, Jonathan Davino, earlier this year marked the end of a relationship that began in 2018. While the pair shared a deep connection, sources close to the actress reveal that marriage was not a priority at this juncture in her flourishing career.
Sydney Sweeney wearing a custom Monot dress, Jimmy Choo shoes and De Beers jewelry arrives at the 49th Annual People’s Choice Awards 2024 held at The Barker Hangar on February 18, 2024 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency)
“Sydney is fiercely dedicated to her craft and ascending to new heights in Hollywood,” an as reported by CWEB Celebrity News. “She’s at the pinnacle of her trajectory and doesn’t want to compromise her momentum for anything—even love.”
The Elite Vying for Her Attention
Since embracing singlehood, Sweeney has been casually dating, a dynamic that suits her demanding schedule. However, her DMs have reportedly become a battleground for the rich and famous, with admirers ranging from Hollywood heartthrobs to Premier League footballers and even affluent moguls from Asia.
“There’s been an overwhelming influx of interest,” a source disclosed. “Some have gone as far as attempting to obtain her address to send lavish gifts, while others have offered private jet invitations—but Sydney isn’t one to indulge in such overtures.”
Known for her discerning standards, the Madame Web star maintains firm boundaries, swiftly blocking those who overstep. Her independence and self-made success ensure she doesn’t rely on external validation—or extravagant gestures—from potential suitors.
A Woman in Control of Her Destiny
At just 26, Sweeney has already established herself as a powerhouse, both as an actress and a producer. With multiple projects in the pipeline and a brand that continues to soar, she remains focused on legacy-building rather than fleeting romances.
As CWEB Celebrity News celebrates her journey, one thing is clear: Sydney Sweeney is not just America’s most wanted woman—she’s a force rewriting the rules of fame, ambition, and allure on her own terms.
Stay tuned to CWEB Celebrity News for the latest updates on Sydney Sweeney’s meteoric rise.
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