WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The PGA Tour worked on Sunday, Dec. 31, to extend a deadline into 2024 for finalizing a merger agreement with Saudi Arabian investors, tour commissioner Jay Monahan calling talks "active and productive." PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan (AFP) The update to players in a memo...
Yuka Saso marked her performance in the past season on the LPGA Tour with seven Top 10 finishes in 22 tournaments with a notable runner-up effort in a major championship (Women’s PGA) last June. Yuka Saso (ninth from left) poses with some of the top Junior PGT campaigners during a recent clinic...
PARIS (AFP) -- Double Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard has signed a contract extension with his team Visma-Lease a Bike, previously known as Jumbo-Visma. Team Jumbo-Visma's Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard (AFP) Dane Vingegaard, 27, will remain at the Dutch outfit until 2028. "I feel very much...
NEW YORK (AFP) -- Two-time major winner Angel Cabrera has been reinstated by the PGA Tour and over-50 PGA Tour Champions after serving a two-year prison sentence for gender violence, Golf Digest reported on Tuesday, Dec. 19. Argentina's Angel Cabrera (AFP) The 54-year-old from Argentina, the...
ROME (AFP) -- Tadej Pogacar will race the Giro d'Italia for the first time in his career in 2024, the double Tour de France champion announced on Sunday, Dec. 17. Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar (AFP) In a video published on social media by the organisers of the Italian Grand Tour, Pogacar is shown...
BLACKPINK, BTS member Suga, TWICE, Tomorrow X Together and Seventeen earned the highest among K-pop concert tours in 2023. Billboard revealed the Top 10 K-pop Tours in 2023, reporting that “K-pop is the youngest, at least in terms of the global box office. In the last 10 years (excluding...
VERSAILLES (AFP) -- The route for the Paris-Nice eight-day bike race unveiled on Tuesday, Dec. 12, has the added draw of resembling more than ever a mini Tour de France, which also ends on the Riviera in 2024 so as to avoid the Olympic Games in Paris. Tour de France general director Christian...
Wesley So delivered a performance to remember as he slew World No. 1 and former world champion Magnus Carlsen, 2-1, in their Armageddon duel in the fifth round of the Champions Chess Tour Finals in Toronto, Canada on Tuesday, Dec. 12. Grandmaster Wesley So currently leads the Champions Chess Tour...
HONG KONG (AFP) -- World number five Andrey Rublev will begin his 2024 season at the Hong Kong Open when the ATP Tour returns to the city for the first time in more than 20 years, organizers said on Tuesday, Dec. 5. Russia's Andrey Rublev (AFP) The 26-year-old Russian will be joined by Grand Slam...
LILLE (AFP) -- Tour de France organizers unveiled the first three stages of the 2025 edition on Thursday, Nov. 30, with race director Christian Prudhomme saying it was tailor-made for the sprinters. Tour de France general director Christian Prudhomme (AFP) After hilly stages in 2020, 2021, 2023 and...
BORONGAN CITY – Mayor Jose Ivan Dayan Agda here said that their hosting of the fourth leg of the NextGen Pilipinas Surfing National Tour helped raise the popularity of this city as a surfing site and gave pride to the people. AGDA (FB) "The impact of this surfing competition in Borongan is...
BRISBANE (AFP) -- Spaniard Joel Moscatel Nachshon fired a remarkable eight-under-par 63 on his DP World Tour debut on Thursday, Nov. 23, to lead the Australian PGA Championship, but defending champion Cameron Smith had a round to forget. Australia's Cameron Smith (AFP) In front of big galleries at...
