Oklahoma softball began the weekend well-positioned to win its fifth consecutive national championship. By the end of it, the Sooners were working to avoid elimination. They managed to do just that. One day after falling to archrival Texas 4-2, No. 2 seed Oklahoma rode two home runs from senior Cydney Sanders to a 4-1 victory against No. 16 seed Oregon ...
Ryan Blaney took control of the race with a pass for the lead on the restart with 116 laps to go, then drove to his first victory of the NASCAR Cup Series season in the Cracker Barrel 400 on June 1 at Nashville Superspeedway. Blaney won Stage 2 but dropped behind Joey Logano after pit stops at the stage break. ...
ERIN, Wis. — It wasn’t that Maja Stark felt overly confident this week. Quite the contrary, in fact. The 25-year-old Swede came into the 80th U.S. Women’s Open with low expectations, thinking more about her status on tour than winning. ‘I think that I just stopped trying to control everything,’ said Stark, ‘and I just kind of let everything happen ...
Vanderbilt, the NCAA Tournament’s No. 1 overall seed, was upset in its home regional, losing two out of three games. The Commodores’ offense struggled mightily, batting .132 for the regional and getting no-hit for six innings in the opening game. This marks Vanderbilt’s fourth straight year failing to advance past the opening regional round of the NCAA Tournament. If you ...
This story was updated to add new information Carlos Edwin Colón Coates Jr., better known as pro wrestler Carlito, will not return to the WWE. He announced on X that his current contract was set to expire in late June and would not be renewed. Carlito took a lighthearted approach to the news on social media and joked that he ...
The 2025 NCAA Baseball Tournament regional round is wrapping up. That means the field in contention for the 2025 College World Series shrinks from the initial 64 teams to just 16 teams as regionals wrap up across 16 host sites on June 1 and 2. The next round is the super regionals, held across eight host sites, with eight teams advancing to ...
A Swede who once dominated Big 12 golf at Oklahoma State, Maja Stark captured her first major by winning the U.S. Women’s Open. Stark, 25, won the 80th Open by two strokes over American Nelly Korda and Japan’s Rio Takeda at Erin Hills near Milwaukee. Celebrate Stark’s historic victory with a beautifully designed commemorative page print from USA TODAY. Featuring ...
Scottie Scheffler just keeps on winning. Scheffler — the world No. 1 — shot 2-under 70 during Sunday’s final round to win the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. Scheffler became the first golfer to win consecutive Memorial Tournament titles since Tiger Woods pulled off a three-peat from 1999-2001. It also marked Scheffler’s third PGA Tour win in ...
Controversy has taken the spotlight as the Women’s College World Series on June 1. However, the celebration for UCLA quickly turned to worry. After the home run, Grant was mobbed by teammates at home plate to celebrate the home run. When Grant took her final step to home plate, she missed the plate and was touched by teammates. Eventually, catcher ...
Tennessee softball’s elimination game against UCLA in the 2025 Women’s College World Series on Sunday at Devon Park in Oklahoma City sent fans across the country to a place few would have anticipated when they tuned into the matchup — the NCAA rule book. With the Lady Vols leading the Bruins 4-2 in the top of the seventh inning with ...