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3M Open final leaderboard-25 J Koivun (US); -22 S Scheffler (US); -20 D McCarthy (US), B Harman (US), C Phillips (US), H Matsuyama (Jpn)Selected others: -17 S Power (Ire), G Woodland (US) M Kim (US); -16 Knapp (US); -13 J Parry (Eng)Full leaderboardAmerican rookie Jackson Koivun held his nerve to beat Scottie Scheffler by three strokes and claim his first PGA Tour win at the 3M Open on Sunday.Playing in just his third tournament since turning professional, Koivun surged into a three-shot lead on Saturday during a round of 10-under 61.The 21-year-old then stretched his lead to five in the…
The Premier League reveal 100 of the BEST Fantasy team names ahead of the 2026/27 season, to give fans some inspiration with theirs. It’s that time of year again, the Fantasy Premier League (FPL) is open for business again, and attention turns to team names, and once again the public haven’t disappointed. A great team name is all about showing your creativity, some are clever, others are well thought out, and the many attempt to give people a laugh. Simple but effective. It’s important to know that FPL team names must be 20 characters or less. Remove spaces if needed.…
After both Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury won their respective interim fights this weekend, they are expected to push ahead with a long-awaited all-British heavyweight clash. Fury stopped Maurisz Wach in seven rounds on Friday night in Pattaya, Thailand. The next day, ‘AJ’ took on Kristian Prenga in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Twenty seconds in, he was on the canvas. Albania’s Prenga scored another knockdown before the first round was finished, but came out in the second much more tentative, allowing the recovered Joshua to snatch back control and produce a knockout and save the Fury fight plans. Despite the victory,…
Britain’s Francesca Jones made it back-to-back wins on the Challenger Tour by successfully defending her title at the Palermo Ladies Open.The top seed beat Fiona Ferro 6-0 4-6 7-6 (8-6) in two hours and 43 minutes.Jones, who had dropped one set all tournament, took the opener in just 21 minutes.The 25-year-old then fought back from 3-0 down to lead 4-3 in the second, but Ferro reeled off three straight games to level the match.A tight deciding set went all the way to a tie break, where the French seventh seed spurned match point at 6-5, allowing Jones to close out…
“I was in shock. I was in a lot of shock,” Brown told Seconds Out. “Wait till he gets in with big Tyson Fury. That’s a different beast. He’s a different beast. That performance was an easy performance yesterday.” Brown admitted he believed Joshua’s comeback bid had already ended after the opening round. “Thought we’d lost the fight. It was all over. The dream was over. Thank God he got up and he did what he did,” said Spencer. Brown’s view matched criticism from several figures in boxing who questioned Joshua’s display despite the knockout victory. Getting dropped twice by…
Lando Norris finally had reason to celebrate after a testing opening to the season, as McLaren’s defending Formula One world champion took his first win of the year at the Hungarian Grand Prix.However, while the victory was thoroughly deserved in an incident-packed race, there was an all too familiar feel to the bigger picture as Kimi Antonelli emerged from a weekend that might have been considered damage limitation for the Mercedes driver having once more extended his advantage at the top of the drivers’ championship.Norris was implacable with an assured drive from pole at the Hungaroring, achieving McLaren’s record 14th…
England’s Adam Ramsay-Peaty will have the chance to defend his men’s 50m breaststroke title at the Commonwealth Games after qualifying third fastest for the final.The 31-year-old, who broke down in tears after taking bronze in the 100m on Saturday night, finished second in his semi-final with a time of 26.82 seconds.World record holder Ramsay-Peaty will have to close the gap to South Africa’s Michael Houlie – who set the pace with 26.61 – when he races in the final on Monday at 20:07 BST.Australia’s 100m breaststroke gold medallist Sam Williamson and Jersey’s silver medallist Filip Nowacki will also line up…
PATTAYA, Thailand – Tyson Fury picked up a routine win over Mariusz Wach, stopping the 46-year-old veteran after seven rounds here in Thailand.It was what it was always going to be, a glorified spar. A crowd of roughly 1,500, made up largely of travelling British fans, squeezed into Pattaya’s sweltering Max Muay Thai Stadium to witness the contest live. There was no television broadcast, only Netflix cameras following Fury for the third season of At Home With The Furys as he eased his way past veteran Mariusz Wach.The fight was, of course, staged to set up a long overdue date…
Lewis Hamilton expressed frustration with his Ferrari team after he dropped points in the title battle against Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli at the Hungarian Grand Prix, while Lando Norris returned to form with the defending world champion claiming his first race victory of the season.Hamilton finished in fourth place on the track at the Hungaroring but, with a five-second penalty imposed for speeding in the pit lane, he was classified as fifth in the race won by McLaren’s Norris, with Max Verstappen second for Red Bull and Antonelli third.Hamilton had been called into the pits late on for a stop under…
Luke Littler defended his World Matchplay title in sensational style and smashed Phil Taylor’s tournament and final average records in the process.The 19-year-old beat seventh seed Gerwyn Price 18-9 in Blackpool to become just the third person to win back-to-back Matchplay titles.World number one Littler finished the week with an average of 111.04, beating Taylor’s record of 106.31 in 2010. He averaged 111.53 in the final, setting a new record as he bettered Taylor’s 111.23 against Adrian Lewis in 2013.Littler claimed £225,000 in prize money for winning the event and now has £3,143,500 over the PDC’s two-year order of merit.…