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New York Post
20 hours ago
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- New York Post
Jordan Spieth withdraws due to injury for first time in PGA Tour career
Jordan Spieth withdrew from the Travelers Championship during Thursday's first round because of a neck/upper back injury, something he never had done in his PGA Tour career. Spieth, 31, pulled out on the 13th hole at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn., after Golf Channel cameras spotted him dealing with the issue earlier in the round and eventually getting treatment during the turn. He was 5-over through 12 holes when he finally decided to withdraw, the first time he had done so in 297 PGA Tour starts. 3 Jordan Spieth crouches while grabbing his neck on the 12th hole during the first round of the Travelers Championship on June 19, 2025. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect 'Everything was great in my gym session, and I've been very, very excited to go out and play. Things have been getting better and better, and then my right scap just kind of locked — like tightened midway through the warmup, and I just kept hitting, and then all of a sudden it was moving up, everything around it started to — and then it was over the left and then it was like everything, so I stopped,' he said, according to the PGA Tour website. 'It was both sides of my neck and upper back, and then I moved over to — I quit 30 minutes early from my warmup and came back to the table with my physio who was out there on the range … I just wasn't moving very well … then I hit my tee shot on 13, and it legitimately really hurt. I was walking off that tee, and I'm like, if it's even harder to turn, then I'm not going to be able to make a backswing that's even useful, and that's what happened on the bunker shot.' 3 Jordan Spieth gets into a golf cart after withdrawing from the tournament on the 13th hole with a neck injury during the first round of the Travelers Championship. Bill Streicher-Imagn Images Spieth, who had won the Travelers in 2017, also said the injury was unexpected and random. The golfer had recently returned to action after a wrist surgery forced him to miss the back half of the 2024 golf schedule. 3 Jordan Spieth plays a shot from a bunker on the 12th hole during the first round of the Travelers Championship. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect Spieth has had eight top-25 finishes this year and this had been his 10th start in his last 12 weeks. 'I was looking at this being the strongest one, and I was very confident about that. Everything I had done in practice and the pro-am showed me it's going to be a really good event. It's just a very weird circumstance. It's disappointing,' he said. Scottie Scheffler and Austin Eckroat, who both shot 8-under 62s, share the lead after the first round.
New York Post
2 days ago
- Sport
- New York Post
Mets can't touch Braves ace Chris Sale in feeble performance as losing streak hits five
Access the Mets beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets. Try it free ATLANTA — Chris Sale wasn't even nice enough to leave Wednesday's game after eight innings with his team ahead by five runs. Instead, the Braves ace — and reigning National League Cy Young award winner — wanted the complete-game shutout. He got two outs, but in what could be deemed the Mets' only success of the night Brandon Nimmo blooped a single and Sale was removed at 116 pitches. 4 Chris Sale dominated the Mets on June 18, 2025. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect The Mets could have used a rainout. 4 Atlanta Braves right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr (13) reacts after hitting a leadoff home run against the New York Mets during the first inning at Truist Park. Dale Zanine-Imagn Images In a feeble performance they managed only five hits (all of them singles) against Sale in a 5-0 loss at Truist Park that extended their season-high losing streak to five games. The Mets, who fell to 18-19 on the road this season, have lost 25 of their last 35 games against the Braves dating to the 2022 season. Paul Blackburn, in his second start of the season, lasted 3 ²/₃ innings and allowed four runs, one unearned, on four hits with two walks and two strikeouts. 4 Mets starting pitcher Paul Blackburn (58) pitches against the Atlanta Braves during the first inning at Truist Park on June 18, 2025. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect 4 Braves right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr (13) hits a lead-off home run against the New York Mets during the first inning at Truist Park. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect He was removed after 73 pitches.
Straits Times
3 days ago
- Sport
- Straits Times
Payback time: how Dutch players could power Suriname to the World Cup
Suriname defender Shaquille Pinas celebrates scoring against Costa Rica in a group stage match of the 2025 Gold Cup. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect Payback time: how Dutch players could power Suriname to the World Cup PARAMARIBO – For years the small South American country of Suriname, a former Dutch colony, has been instrumental in producing some of the Netherlands' best footballers, from Frank Rijkaard and Ruud Gullit to Clarence Seedorf. Now, nearly 40 years after Gullit inspired the Dutch to victory in the 1988 European Championships, their only major trophy, the boot is on the other foot. Suriname is banking on Dutch players of Surinamese origin to help it achieve its wildest dream – booking a spot in the Fifa World Cup Finals for the first time when it comes to North America in June 2026. 'It's a dream of the nation and we hope that we can fulfil that dream,' the president of the Suriname football federation Soerin Mathoera, told AFP in a recent interview in the Surinamese capital Paramaribo. The tropical country of 600,000 people situated on the north-east coast of South America, ranked 137th in the world by Fifa, looked on with pride as its children's children helped revive the fortunes of the struggling 'Oranje' in the late 1980s. After failing to qualify for the 1982 and 1986 World Cups, a fabled trio of Surinamese-origin – Rijkaard, Gullit and Aron Winter – formed the nucleus of a new Dutch dream team. It was not all plain sailing for players of color in the overwhelmingly white Dutch teams of the day. Gullit complained of receiving racial abuse. But the Surinamese influence endured. In the 1990s, the likes of Edgar Davids helped the Netherlands reach the semi-final of the 1998 World Cup. Current Dutch captain Virgil van Dijk, who has been a standout centre-back for English champions Liverpool, was born in the Dutch city of Breda to a Dutch father and Surinamese mother. Now the time has come for Suriname football to have its own moment in the sun. In pursuit of its World Cup dream authorities in the Caribbean nation six years ago broke with a longtime taboo by allowing players from the Surinamese diaspora join the national team. The floodgates opened. Six years on, only three of the 26 players in the Surinamese squad were born in the country. The rest moved from Europe or Asia to play for their ancestral homeland, seen as having its best chance yet of reaching the World Cup at next year's expanded tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico of 48 teams (up from 32 previously). Despite being in South America, Suriname is part of the Concacaf (North, Central America and the Caribbean associations) federation. Being in the same group as the hosts, who automatically qualify for the tournament, is a shot in the arm for Suriname. With no competition from the co-hosts for the five remaining Concacaf spots, its chances of making it through have grown exponentially. The team has gone into the qualifiers with a pep in their step, helped by a new crop of players with experience from Europe's premier leagues. And it shows. A goal from Dutch-born Jaden Montnor gave Suriname a 1-0 victory over Puerto Rico on June 6, taking it to the third round of the qualifiers in September. 'We have made a lot of progress,' said Mathoera. 'We are among the best 14 countries within (41-federation) Concacaf,' he claimed. The team's assistant coach, Roberto Godeken, who also manages SV Robinhood, the country's top club, agreed the path to the World Cup was 'much easier' than in the past. 'We definitely have a much better chance of qualifying,' he said, crediting 'the arrival of the diaspora' with taking Suriname football 'to a higher level.' Renske Adipi 'Kante', 25, a midfielder for Robinhood and the national team, hopes to write his name in the sporting annals like his idol French midfielder N'Golo Kante. Robinhood's only fully professional player, who is in talks with foreign clubs about a transfer, said he was 'learning a lot' from foreign-born players. Diederik Samwel, the author of a book entitled 'Suriname en route to the World Cup,' said it was only a matter of time before the technical prowess of local players, blended with the Europeans' tactical skills, produced a breakthrough. For Godeken, it would be a 'historic' feat if Suriname made it through. 'It would put Suriname on the map,' he said. AFP Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
New York Post
4 days ago
- Sport
- New York Post
Arkansas' Gage Wood throws first College World Series no-hitter in 65 years in electric performance
Arkansas' Gage Wood put his name in rarified air with the third no-hitter in Men's College World Series history and the first in 65 years. The hard-throwing Arkansas righty was dominant — and just a hit batter away from a perfect game — in the Razorbacks' 3-0 win to eliminate Cinderella Murray State in Omaha on Monday afternoon. Wood set the College World Series record for strikeouts in a nine-inning game with 19 and did not walk a batter over 119 pitches. Advertisement 3 Arkansas Razorbacks starting pitcher Gage Wood (14) celebrates completing a no-hitter \against the Murray State Racers at Charles Schwab Field. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect He fanned Jonathan Hogart swinging to end game. The only blemish was Wood hitting Dom Decker on his back foot to lead off the eighth inning. He then proceeded to strike out the next three batters. Advertisement He also hit Nico Bermeo to start the ninth, but it was turned into a strikeout when Arkansas won its challenge and it was deemed Bermeo leaned into the pitch instead of making an effort to get out of the way. 'I shouldn't have hit the guy,' Gage said in his ESPN on-field interview when asked about his performance. 'That's it. That's all I got to say.' The other two no-hitters were thrown by Texas' Jim Ehrler against Tufts in 1950 and Jim Wisxon of Oklahoma State against North Carolina in 1960 before Gage joined them on Tuesday. Advertisement 3 Arkansas Razorbacks starting pitcher Gage Wood (14) and catcher Ryder Helfrick (27) embrace as the dugout empties after Wood pitches a no hitter to defeat the Murray State Racers at Charles Schwab Field. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect 3 Arkansas Razorbacks starting pitcher Gage Wood (14) celebrates with infielder Gabe Fraser (6) after throwing a no hitter against the Murray State Racers at Charles Schwab Field. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect Gage, a junior and projected first-round draft pick, went 3-1 with a 5.02 ERA in nine appearances and 28.2 innings this season while posting 50 strikeouts. Advertisement Murray State was just the fourth No. 4 seed to make it to the College World Series since 1999, when the field expanded. Arkansas awaits the loser of tonight's UCLA-LSU game on Tuesday.
New York Post
5 days ago
- Sport
- New York Post
J.J. Spaun shares adorable moments with daughters, wife after US Open win on Father's Day
On Father's Day, J. J. Spaun may have been the happiest dad on the planet. Not only did the pro golfer capture his first major title, winning the 125th U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club, but he got to celebrate the milestone in adorable fashion with his two little daughters and his wife. Spaun won his first major championship on Sunday with a two-stroke victory, birdieing on the 17th hole to move ahead by one stroke and then sinking 64½-foot putt for birdie on 18 to secure the win. 3 J. J. Spaun of the United States celebrates with his wife and family after his winning putt on the 18th green during the final round of the 125th U.S. OPEN at Oakmont Country Club on June 15, 2025 in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. Getty Images 3 JJ Spaun celebrates with his family and the championship trophy after winning the 125th U.S. Open golf tournament. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect After the putt went in and the crowd went crazy, Spaun bear hugged his caddy and the NBC cameras flashed to Spaun's wife, Melody, and the couple's two kids, Emerson Lili and Violet Windsor, as they celebrated from the stands. At one point, the couple's oldest daughter turned around with a smile on her face, reacting to the moment. As the celebration continued, Spaun was reunited with his family, picking up his oldest daughter, Emerson Lili, and gave her a kiss on the cheek before kissing his wife and their other daughter Violet, who has been dealing with a stomach bug that had Spaun at CVS at 3 a.m. on Sunday. Spaun was later seen holding his two girls as he was signing his scorecard after his U.S. Open win. Photos also captured Spaun showing the U.S. Open trophy to his two inquisitive daughters. 3 Getty Images 'It was a very touching moment to see my girls there,' Spaun said about seeing his daughters after his win. 'They've never — well, my oldest daughter, she was at the Valero when I won, and she was about the same age as my youngest daughter now. It was so cool to just have my whole family there on Father's Day. It's just incredible. I have no words to describe the moment and them being able to see me as the winner. 'My daughter always asks me, every time dad goes golfing, she's like, Were you the winner today? Sometimes I'm like, Yeah, I was. She's like, Where's my surprise? So today she's like, You're the winner today. Like she got to see it. She didn't have to ask me. So that was a really fun moment.'
