A sellout crowd. A heart-stopping finish. A confounding fact.
Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese helped generate bundles of money through ticket sales alone last month in Chicago for the showdown between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky. But the rookies made less than $2,000 apiece in base salary for their part in the most-watched WNBA game in 23 years.
If the Miami Heat make the Finals, there’s no doubt NBA commissioner David Stern and the executives at ABC and ESPN will burn a little incense to the basketball marketing gods. Nothing is likely to draw bigger ratings than the drama of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh competing for the title in their…
Dustin Johnson has fallen to his lowest point in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) since his debut season on the PGA Tour as a 23-year-old rookie back in 2008. Following the latest round of changes to the OWGR list on Monday, Johnson now finds himself loitering down the list as the 453rd-ranked player…
Angel Reese is the best offensive rebounder in the country, and it’s not close. The Sky rookie’s 4.9 offensive rebounds per game leads the WNBA by a wide margin. Teammate Kamilla Cardoso sits in second place, at 3.5 per game. That 3.5 mark is the same that Teaira McCowan led the league with last…
Tiger Woods makes his debut in the second week of the indoor TMRW Golf League, part of a schedule released Monday that has the six teams wrapping up the inaugural season on ESPN two weeks before the Masters. Rory McIlroy, among the owners with Woods of TMRW Sports, won’t play until the fourth week…
England’s Richard Bland won the 44th U.S. Senior Open with a par on the fourth playoff hole at Newport Country Club, outlasting Japan’s Hiroyuki Fujita in a marathon Monday finish in Rhode Island. Both players finished regulation at 13-under 267, requiring a two-hole aggregate playoff on Nos. 10 and 18. After both players went par-par,…
The invitation is open. Bryson DeChambeau, the two-time U.S. Open winner, said he would be “more than willing” to have a Democrat on his “Break 50” YouTube video series after former President Donald Trump appeared in an episode that debuted on Tuesday. The golfer also called it an “honor” to play with the…