For a sport steeped in stately tradition and the slow unfolding of tension, golf is looking a whole lot like the hypercharged, quick-cut, meme-heavy NBA these days. Just as you can keep up with the flow of an entire NBA season without ever watching a full game, you don’t need to know who won last week’s PGA Tour event — or last month’s LIV tournament, for that matter — to ride the sport’s waves of status quo-shattering news. The latest arrived Tuesday afternoon, as Tiger Woods… Source link
Read More »Patrick Reed files $750 million defamation lawsuit against Golf Channel, Brandel Chamblee
Patrick Reed filed a lawsuit against the Golf Channel and commentator Brandel Chamblee on Tuesday, claiming that the two “conspired” with the PGA Tour to defame him. Reed, who filed his suit in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, is seeking more than $750 million in damages. He is being represented by Larry Klayman, a controversial former prosecutor who has filed a number of notable failed lawsuits in the past. Reed won nine times on the PGA Tour in his career, including at The Masters in… Source link
Read More »Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker speaks with Yahoo Finance [Transcript]
Patrick Harker, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, joined Yahoo Finance Live on June 22, 2022, to discuss his economic outlook and the Fed’s recent decision to raise interest rates by 0.75%. — BRIAN CHEUNG: President Harker. Good morning. How are you? PATRICK HARKER: Good morning, Brian. Thanks for having me. BRIAN CHEUNG: So a lot to talk about, obviously the big news headline coming from the Fed last week of that 0.75%, 75 basis point, move. It was an interesting kind of… Source link
Read More »Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed will join LIV Golf tour
LIV Golf has claimed two more big names from the PGA Tour. Patrick Reed, 2018 Masters champion, and Bryson DeChambeau, 2020 U.S. Open champion, will play on the LIV circuit, according to a new report in the Daily Telegraph. The report also indicated that Rickie Fowler is close to signing with LIV, as well. Sports Illustrated confirmed that report while adding that Reed and DeChambeau will join LIV at its first U.S. stop in early July. LIV Golf has not yet responded to a request for… Source link
Read More »Patrick Mahomes marries Brittany Matthews in Hawaii
Say hello to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes, the star Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, married his longtime girlfriend, Brittany Matthews, in a ceremony in Hawaii on Saturday. Mahomes and Matthews have been together since they were high school classmates at Whitehouse High School in Texas. Matthews is a fitness instructor who co-founded Kansas City’s NWSL franchise, the Kansas City Current. The couple have a one-year old daughter named Sterling, who was born in February 2021. Jackson… Source link
Read More »‘The idea that there’s not enough human capital in South Africa is outrageous’: Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong
As the U.S. faces a cash crunch and global pressure to prioritize vaccinating African countries, two unlikely partners have joined forces to do the same, all without U.S. government funding or help. Baylor College of Medicine’s Dr. Peter Hotez and ImmunityBio (IBRX) executive chairman Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong announced a partnership in late 2021 in which Hotez and his partner, Maria Elena Bottazzi, licensed their free, no-strings-attached COVID-19 vaccine candidate to ImmunityBio. And the… Source link
Read More »How the Bengals flustered Patrick Mahomes
Some thought the overtime coin flip spelled doom for the Cincinnati Bengals in Sunday’s AFC championship. Surely Patrick Mahomes would march down the field like he did against the Buffalo Bills to secure a third straight Super Bowl trip for the Kansas City Chiefs. Instead, he threw an ill-advised deep ball to Tyreek Hill into double coverage that safety Jessie Bates tipped into cornerback Vonn Bell‘s hands for a game-shifting interception that set up Cincinnati’s 27-24 win. It was an… Source link
Read More »Patrick Mahomes, Tyreek Hill connect for nice TD
Patrick Mahomes is one of the best passers we’ve ever seen. And Tyreek Hill can catch it. The Kansas City Chiefs came out looking great in the AFC championship game. On their first drive, the Chiefs easily drove downfield on the Cincinnati Bengals. Then Mahomes and Hill had a fantastic highlight for the score. Mahomes rolled to his right while Hill ran along the back line of the end zone. Mahomes threw a fastball from a crazy angle, which he is better at than anyone. Mahomes threw a dart… Source link
Read More »Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen may be NFL’s next great rivalry
When it was all over, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes sprinted across the field to pay it forward. He weaved his way past the celebrating embraces of backup quarterback Chad Henne and linebacker Frank Clark, dropping his helmet at the 35-yard line and curving his trajectory to a person who had earned a shared private moment in the most public of places. Normally, this singular path in the euphoric chaos of victory delivers a player to an embrace with family or a cherished… Source link
Read More »Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker speaks with Yahoo Finance [Transcript]
Patrick Harker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, joined Yahoo Finance on the virtual sidelines of the annual Jackson Hole symposium to discuss the impact of the Delta variant on the U.S. economy and how the Federal Reserve is responding. Below is a transcript of his appearance on Yahoo Finance Live on August 27. – BRIAN CHEUNG: Welcome back to Yahoo Finance Live! Obviously all eyes are on that Jackson Hole Economic Symposium being held, virtually this year, but we’re going… Source link
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