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It is best to ignore what’s on paper during tournaments. A week ago, Germany suffered their worst defeat, falling 4-1 to Sweden (a team now out of the tournament after losing to England on penalties). Thirteen minutes into Saturday’s quarter-final against France in Basel, Switzerland, Germany were down a defender due to a puzzling hair pull, depleting an already decimated …

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Shane Lowry’s Portrush British Open defense won’t officially be dead until Sunday’s final round is complete. It didn’t officially end with the 3-over-par 74 he shot in Saturday’s third round. The place it really ended was on No. 12 in Friday’s second round when he was penalized two shots when TV replay showed his practice swing …

CNN  —  Irish golfer Shane Lowry said he feared being “slaughtered” on social media if he did not accept the two-stroke penalty he received at The Open Championship on Friday. The 38-year-old triumphed the last time the major was hosted at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland but saw his hopes of repeating that 2019 success dented by an incident during …

When all the rivalries, the personalities and the occasion are stripped away, penalty taking is a very simple sort of game with just two players: the taker and the keeper. Fortunately there is a branch of mathematical sciences, known as Game Theory, dedicated to understanding and interrogating the dynamics of such simple competitions. To use the language of that subject, …

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Irishman Shane Lowry, who won the British Open the last time it was played at Portrush, was assessed a two-shot penalty for accidentally moving his ball with a practice swing before his second shot on the par-5 12th hole.  When Lowry finished his round, he was 2-under par for the tournament, but he met with rules …

While watching the Euros quarterfinal between Sweden and England with an eye toward covering it, I kept changing my mind on what to write about. This is a side effect of my job and my brain, both of which combine to help me begin to see narratives as soccer matches burn through their allotted time. Some matches are straightforward in …

Sonoma penalty report: Officials suspend No. 51 crew members; three Xfinity teams fined  NASCAR.com Sonoma penalties: Rick Ware Racing has two pit-crew members suspended for loose wheel  Jayski’s NASCAR Silly Season Site NASCAR penalty report released after Sonoma weekend  On3 NASCAR suspends two crew members for Cody Ware loose wheel  Yahoo Sports Denny Hamlin hit with NASCAR penalty as four Cup Series drivers guilty …