Lindley storms back to win U.S. Senior Women’s Open at Fox Chapel Golf Club
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By By MICHAEL LOVE Trib Total Media 
August 6, 2024
Leta Lindley finished runner-up at the 2022 and 2023 U.S. Senior Women’s Open championships, falling by one stroke to Jill McGill two years ago at NCR Country Club in Dayton, Ohio, and by one stroke a...
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July 26, 2024
PARIS (AP) — Top-seeded Novak Djokovic could meet his longtime rival Rafael Nadal in the second round of the Paris Olympic tennis tournament. Djokovic was drawn Thursday against Australian Matthew Ebd...
Dreams and reality meet in EA Sports game
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July 26, 2024
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Freshman quarterback DJ Lagway grabbed a controller, settled comfortably into a leather stool and immediately started to adjust Florida’s roster. There was only one move to ma...
Americans on a roll in major championships
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July 24, 2024
TROON, Scotland (AP) — Europeans first took over Augusta National when Sandy Lyle of Scotland won the Masters in 1988, the start of seven European winners in a span of nine years. Padraig Harrington k...
Clark, Reese provide highlights – soon it may be for U.S.
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July 22, 2024
PHOENIX (AP) — Caitlin Clark delivered the pinpoint passes. Angel Reese supplied the hustle and rebounding. The two WNBA rookies made life difficult for the U.S. Olympic team on Saturday night. Someda...
Schauffele surges to British Open crown
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July 22, 2024
For the first time since 1982, the U.S. claimed all four majors. For Schauffele, it’s his second of the year. TROON, Scotland (AP) — Xander Schauffele went from the most nerve-wracking putt of his car...
Tiger Woods misses cut at British Open
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July 20, 2024
TROON, Scotland (AP) — Tiger Woods tied a personal record in the British Open on Friday, one he could have done without but perhaps should come to expect. Woods matched his highest 36-hole score as a ...
Brown’s late birdie gives him 1-shot Open lead
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July 19, 2024
TROON, Scotland (AP) — The wind caught just about everyone off guard Thursday in the British Open. It came from the opposite direction off the Irish Sea, accompanied by occasional rain, and made Royal...
WNBA union head concerned with deal
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July 19, 2024
The head of the players’ union is worried the league is being undervalued with new media deal. PHOENIX (AP) — The executive director of the WNBA players’ union is concerned the league is being underva...
Argentina gets late goal to win Copa America
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July 16, 2024
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Argentina defeated Colombia 1-0 in the Copa America final Sunday evening in a match that was delayed more than an hour because of crowd issues, including fans breaching secu...
Alcaraz repeats as Wimbledon champion
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July 15, 2024
The 21-year-old defeated Novak Djokovic in the finals for the second consecutive year. LONDON (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz was ready from the get-go this time. A year ago in the Wimbledon final against Novak...
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July 15, 2024
LONDON (AP) — At age 18, a decade before Barbora Krejcikova won Wimbledon on Saturday, she was done with junior tennis and couldn’t decide whether to pursue a professional tennis career or move on, go...
Ryan Blaney wins at Pocono to complete Team Penske NASCAR-IndyCar sweep
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July 15, 2024
LOND POND, Pa. (AP) — Ryan Blaney still feels like the “silly, quiet kid” he was at 23 when he blazed past Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch over the final 10 laps in 2017 at Pocono Raceway to win a NASCAR...
MacIntyre wins his national open in Scotland with birdie to beat Scott
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July 15, 2024
NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) — Robert MacIntyre screamed so loud when the winning putt dropped that he lost his voice. He still was drowned out by thousands of delirious Scottish fans who celebrated o...
Justin Thomas leads Scottish Open
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July 11, 2024
NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) — Justin Thomas dressed in tartan-patterned trousers and played the part Thursday in the Scottish Open with an 8-under 62, his lowest opening round on the PGA Tour since h...
Paolini wins longest Wimbledon semifinal
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July 11, 2024
LONDON (AP) — Jasmine Paolini kept coming back, kept coming back, kept coming back, against Donna Vekic in what would become the longest Wimbledon women’s semifinal on record — after dropping the open...
FanDuel fined for April Fool’s Day bets
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July 10, 2024
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — It might have seemed too good to be true, but there it was, and on April Fool’s Day, no less: One of the country’s leading sports books was taking bets on mixed martial arts...
Berhalter fired as U.S. coach
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July 10, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — Gregg Berhalter was fired as U.S. men’s soccer coach on Wednesday, nine days after his team’s first-round exit from the Copa America flamed doubts he was the right person to remain in ...