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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Wednesday’s “First Call” has an interesting quote from former Pittsburgh Steeler George Pickens in Dallas. T.J. Watt speaks in advance of training camp after making his new contract official. And the UFL is going through major changes. Tough to misinterpret George Pickens said something Tuesday that I’m sure will get attention in Pittsburgh. According to the Dallas Morning News, the …
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T.J. Watt won in his contract negotiation with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He also won in his battle to surpass at least some of Myles Garrett’s financial terms in Cleveland. Great. Now go win a playoff game. Yeah, yeah. I know. Playoff records are team results, not individual stats assigned to outside linebackers. At most, quarterbacks and coaches should carry those …
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Several numbers are out there as far as how big the next expansion of the College Football Playoff could be. The total for Missouri’s Eli Drinkwitz, as he said this morning at the podium, is 30 teams playing to be in a field. Drinkwitz was asked for his thoughts on CFP expansion while at SEC Media Days in Atlanta on …
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ATLANTA –The Big Ten will not back off its preferred College Football Playoff format, guaranteeing the league four automatic qualifiers, unless the SEC decides to add a ninth conference game, sources told On3. “There’s no way (Big Ten commissioner) Tony (Petitti) moves off four AQs,” a source said. With the Big Ten continuing to support the four AQ format and …
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Commissioner Rob Manfred weighs in on possible playoff site for Rays Tampa Bay Times Rays, if in, get OK for playoffs in 10K-seat stadium ESPN Tampa Bay Rays will play postseason home games at Steinbrenner Field if they make playoffs, Rob Manfred says Yahoo Sports How the Rays’ temporary relocation is affecting Tampa and St. Petersburg businesses WUSF Rays will remain at Steinbrenner Field …
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