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The Wells Fargo Championship is the sixth of eight signature events on the 2024 season and begins Thursday at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte. The event features a $20 million purse and increased FedEx Cup points. It also provides the 69-player field an opportunity to compete without red-hot Scottie Scheffler to contend with ahead of next week's PGA Championship. Our golf experts preview the tournament and provide their favorite prop picks along with best bets to win this week. WELLS FARGO CHAMPIONSHIP Location: Wells Fargo Championship, Charlotte, N.C., May 9-12 Course: Quail Hollow Club (Par 71, 7,558 Yards) Purse: $20M (Winners: $3.6M) Defending Champion: Wyndham Clark FedEx Cup Leader: Scottie Scheffler HOW TO FOLLOW TV: Thursday-Friday: 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday…

Year Three will be a make-or-break year in Miami for Tua Tagovailoa. While the former Alabama QB has been decent for the Dolphins, he’s yet to lead them to the postseason. There’s absolutely no reason that shouldn’t change in 2022 with how the team has been restructured to focus more on the offensive side of the ball. The NFL on CBS posted this statistic showing the number of 40 plus yard passing TDs for Tua and Odell Beckham Jr. in their careers. OBJ has twice the amount of 40+ yard TD passes than Tagovailoa. Anytime a quarterback stat is used to compare a starting QB to any other position on the field, it doesn’t usually speak highly of the QB in that equation. That’s not a stat to be proud of, but it shouldn’t be a complete indictment of Tua’s ability. And I think we�…

Some people consider Trevor Lawrence’s Clemson career one of the greatest college careers of all-time. The man never lost a regular-season game, won a National Championship, and was promptly drafted first overall as soon as he became eligible. However, several other people would say his career paled in comparison to the greatness that was Joe Burrow’s 2019-2020 season, where Burrow completed 76.3 percent of his passes for 5,671 yards and 60 touchdowns en route to going undefeated and winning the title. Burrow’s importance to the LSU football team only furthered after his departure. Since Burrow left Baton Rouge, LSU has gone just 8-6, a far cry from their 25-3 record with Burrow under center. Burrow and Lawrence faced each other in college once, for the 2020 BCS Championship, wit…

These are exciting times for Name of the Year. Since we spoke to you last, several of our past winners have found themselves back in the headlines. Steele Sidebottom, the People’s Choice in the 2010 contest, recently inked a five-year contract extension with the Australian Football League’s Collingwood Magpies. Hector “Macho” Camacho, the first ever NOTY winner (and, let’s be honest, a minnow compared to today’s contenders), earned a posthumous induction into the Boxing Hall of Fame. Most significantly, 2001 champ Tokyo Sexwale tossed in his legendary name for FIFA’s presidential race, though he later withdrew it. “It’s your problem now,” he said of soccer’s famously corrupt governing body. Sexwale’s waves in the FIFA race prompted many readers to send in his…

Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Christian Lopez probably should have taken an econ class. Christian Lopez joined WFAN in New York with Ed Randall to discuss if he got any sleep on Saturday night after catching Derek Jeter's 3,000th hit, thinking he would catch Derek Jeter's 3,000th hit, his thought process as Derek Jeter stepped up to the plate looking for his 3,000th hit, the reaction he's been getting from family and friends after catching Derek Jeter's 3,000th hit, there ever being a thought to not give the ball back to Derek Jeter after he caught it and his girlfriend jokingly wanting him t…

Mathieu Valbuena came into today’s friendly between Portugal and France as a substitute and quickly landed the deciding goal on this tremendous free kick. On a day full of Euro qualifiers, it seems the most outstanding effort we’ve found is from a match that doesn’t matter. [Fox Deportes] To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] ( PGP key) or find him on Twitter @bubbaprog. …

data-mm-id=”_7n6i5ei7g”>For the millionth time, what happens in sports is less significant in the grand scheme of things than getting the coronavirus health crisis under control. Nevertheless, it remains a matter of great intrigue as to when NBA, NHL, and MLB will return, and a big variable that these leagues are going to have to deal with is that it sure seems like some states will open back up for business before others do. Will the leagues wait until all their teams' territories are clear, or will they set up shop where they're permitted?Some of this will come down to preparedness — Washington state was an early adopter of social distancing and thus projects to come out the other side sooner — while another aspect of it will be a good old-fashioned red/blue divide. Texas…

data-mm-id=”_w9fnaaycz”>Billy Gillispie has been hired as the new head coach at Tarleton State and Rob Dauster is not happy about it. The NBC Sports writer went off on the school's decision to hire Gillispie, calling it "shameful." It's safe to say the parties will not be exchanging Christmas cards this year. Dauster believes Gillispie should never coach basketball at any level because, "he’s abusive, he’s manipulative, he treats the people in his program horrifically and you can never be quite sure when his next drunk driving arrest is going to happen."Damn. Dauster points out Gillispie's three drunk driving arrests and the fact that Kentucky forced him to have a driver when he was the school's basketball coach because the school didn't…