From out of nowhere into the winner’s circle, Justin Rose raced through the finish line and a congested chasing pack atop the leaderboard Sunday to edge U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun across three sudden-death playoff holes and claim the first leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs at the 2025 St. Jude Championship. In doing so, he won his first PGA …
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Justin Rose produced a sensational finish at the FedEx St Jude Championship with six birdies in his last final eight holes to win a playoff against the US Open champion JJ Spaun. The English golfer, who at 45 became the oldest European to win on the PGA Tour in the modern era, looked out of it after a bogey at …
Read More »Tommy Fleetwood once again came up short. Fleetwood, who held a two-shot lead briefly on the back nine, fell apart late and let the FedEx St. Jude Championship slip away on Sunday afternoon. That left the door open for Justin Rose, who made four straight birdies late to force a playoff with J.J. Spaun at TPC Southwind in Memphis. Advertisement …
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During his first college football season as a member of the media, Nick Saban absolutely nailed last year’s SEC Championship picks when he predicted Georgia and Texas would ultimately battle it out for league supremacy, a battle the Bulldogs won 22-19 in overtime last December. Now, ahead of what will be Saban’s second season as part of the ESPN College …
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It’s not the greatest look for the PGA Tour and its playoff format that Rory McIlroy is blowing off the first leg of the three-tournament bonanza. And one influential Tour veteran is not pleased about the reigning Masters champion’s absence. “Very concerned,” Peter Malnati, one of the player directors on the PGA Tour Policy Board, told Golfweek. There’s currently no …
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It’s playoff time! The top 70 players in the FedExCup standings have qualified for the playoff-opening FedEx St. Jude Championship, which begins Thursday at TPC Southwind in Memphis. All but No. 2 Rory McIlroy are slated to compete. The immediate goal for the 69 players teeing it up in Memphis is cracking the top 50, not only to advance to …
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ST. LOUIS — The 2025 Padres have a tremendously high ceiling and some very obvious flaws. That was abundantly clear, even before they finished their three-city road trip at 5-5. Still, the post-All-Star trek through Washington, Miami and St. Louis only served to reinforce those strengths and weaknesses. With the Trade Deadline looming on Thursday, here’s what we learned from …
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Adam RittenbergJul 23, 2025, 12:44 PM ET Close College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. LAS VEGAS — Oregon coach Dan Lanning is advocating for college football to adopt an NFL-style schedule with limited open weeks, no long layoffs for playoff teams and a season that wraps on Jan. 1 rather than later in the month. …
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