By Sports Info Solutions charting data from Football Outsiders, Slay ranks ninth among 92 corners thrown to at least 30 times in yards allowed per pass attempt at 5.4. The Lions are playing coy with how Slay will be used against the Giants on Sunday, even though he’s usually tasked …
Read More »Wooing Trump With Golf
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is taking a page from his grandfather’s playbook in using golf to form ties with an American leader. In talks with Donald Trump in New York on Thursday, Abe presented the real estate mogul with a golf club (Japanese media said it was a driver). …
Read More »Rio Olympic Golf Course nearly empty
As the Agence France-Presse reports, the Olympic Golf Course, host for men’s and women’s golf for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August, is facing a bevy of issues that could lead to its demise. The Olympic Golf Course, according to the AFP, has an almost entirely unfurnished clubhouse, a …
Read More »Dodt leads Australian PGA
Adam Scott put together back-to-back rounds of 68 and feels like he’s really back in the swing of things as he heads into the weekend at the Australian PGA Championship four shots off the pace. Andrew Dodt followed his opening 65 with a 67 on Friday to hold the halfway …
Read More »DeChambeau wasn’t kidding about putting side-saddle
Bryson DeChambeau told Golf Digest’s Tim Rosaforte in October he was working on a side-saddle putting stroke. DeChambeau is playing in this week’s Franklin Templeton Shootout, and on Tuesday, the PGA Tour shared video of him preparing for the event by putting side-saddle. After news of DeChambeau’s potential putting change …
Read More »Women’s golf getting in the swing
The Professional Golfers Association, Ladies Professional Golf Association and United State Golf Association have been involved in initiatives to bring the sport to kids.The First Tee is a youth development organization introducing the game of golf and its values to young people. This past year, there was one league in …
Read More »Michael Floyd, former Cretin-Derham Hall star, released by Arizona Cardinals
TEMPE, Ariz. —The Arizona Cardinals released wide receiver Michael Floyd on Wednesday, two days after he was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and failure to obey a police officer. Floyd was taken into custody after being found unconscious behind the wheel of his running vehicle at …
Read More »Gophers women hold on to defeat Belmont 75-74, Jessie Edwards has career-high 29 points
Jessie Edwards scored a career high of 29 points as Minnesota held off Belmont University 75-74 on Wednesday afternoon at Williams Arena. The Gophers trailed by two points at halftime but took a six point lead into the fourth quarter. Edwards. a 6-foot-5 junior center from Australia, scored nine of …
Read More »Wild crushes Panthers for fifth consecutive victory
Maybe, just maybe, the personality of this team is different from yesteryear. Previously, if the Wild was riding high but facing a nondivisional opponent that didn’t get the blood boiling like adversaries from, say, Winnipeg or St. Louis, the Wild almost surely would suffer a letdown. But Tuesday night, the …
Read More »Emphasis on deflections for Gophers basketball came from Rick Pitino
Richard Pitino learned to value deflections working under his father, Rick Pitino, at Louisville. It’s a term that has been used heavily at Minnesota since Tubby Smith was coaching at Williams Arena. Smith also a former Rick Pitino assistant at Kentucky, used to make his players do extra conditioning in …
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