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2 hours ago
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FEDEX ST. JUDE CLASSIC – THE START OF THE PGA TOUR PLAYOFFS – AND U.S. WOMEN'S AMATEUR HEADLINE LIVE GOLF ACROSS NBC, GOLF CHANNEL, AND PEACOCK
FedEx St. Jude Classic at TPC Southwind in Memphis – Thursday-Friday at 2 p.m. ET and Weekend Lead-In on GOLF Channel, Saturday at 3 p.m. ET and Sunday at 2 p.m. ET on NBC/Peacock Happy Hour With Smylie Presented by Michelob Ultra – Friday Happy Hours with Smylie Kaufman on GOLF Channel Return for FedExCup Playoffs U.S. Women's Amateur at Bandon Dunes – 15 Hours of Live Coverage on GOLF Channel Beginning Tonight at 6 p.m. ET U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Channel Broadcast Team Includes Emilia Doran, Who Won Her Round of 64 Match Today PGA TOUR Champions Boeing Classic – Friday-Sunday on GOLF Channel DP World Tour Nexo Championship at Trump International Golf Links in Scotland – Thursday-Sunday Mornings on GOLF Channel STAMFORD, Conn. – August 6, 2025 – NBC Sports is the home of the PGA TOUR FedExCup Playoffs, beginning this week at the FedEx St. Jude Classic at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn., while the U.S. Women's Amateur will be held at Bandon Dunes in Oregon, headlining this week's live golf coverage across NBC, GOLF Channel, and Peacock. PGA TOUR FEDEXCUP PLAYOFFS: FEDEX ST. JUDE CLASSIC The FedEx St. Jude Classic at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn., is the first event of the 2025 PGA TOUR Playoffs, featuring the Top 70 players on the FedExCup standings following the conclusion of the regular season last week at the Wyndham Championship. Following this event, the Top 50 in the standings advance to next week's BMW Championship, with the Top 30 after that advancing to the TOUR Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. Scottie Scheffler, the defending FedExCup Champion, has not finished outside of the Top 10 in an event since March and is coming off a victory at the Open Championship at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland, his fourth career major championship win. Players around the Top 50 bubble hoping to continue their season include Jordan Spieth (No. 48), Wyndham Clark (No. 49), and Min Woo Lee (No. 50). All three FedExCup Playoff events will feature Drone AR, the Emmy winning innovation that allows fans to watch towering drives like never before, as the augmented reality experience combines live aerial video with real-time analytics. The critically-acclaimed Happy Hour with Smylie Presented by Michelob Ultra on GOLF Channel will return for all three FedExCup Playoff events, beginning this Friday afternoon at the FedEx St. Jude Classic, as Smylie Kaufman spends time with PGA TOUR stars following their rounds to get their thoughts on the game and showcase their personalities. This week's coverage from TPC Southwind on GOLF Channel begins at 2 p.m. ET on Thursday and Friday, 1 p.m. ET on Saturday, and noon ET on Sunday. NBC and Peacock carry weekend coverage on Saturday at 3 p.m. ET and Sunday at 2 p.m. ET. NBC/GOLF Channel/Peacock Broadcast Team Play by Play: Dan Hicks / Terry Gannon / Steve Sands Analyst: Kevin Kisner / Brad Faxon / Smylie Kaufman / Curt Byrum On-Course: Jim 'Bones' Mackay / Smylie Kaufman / John Wood / Curt Byrum Interviews: Damon Hack USGA: U.S. WOMEN'S AMATEUR GOLF Channel presents 15 hours of live coverage of the U.S. Women's Amateur from Bandon Dunes in Bandon, Ore., beginning tonight at 6 p.m. ET. The week began with stroke play on Monday and Tuesday and a field of 64 entered match play on Wednesday, including GOLF Channel commentator Emilia Doran, who won her match against Reagan Zibilski to advance to the Round of 32 and will be on Golf Channel's coverage throughout the week. This marks the first time that Bandon Dunes is hosing the U.S. Women's Amateur. Rianne Malixi of the Philippines became the second player in USGA history to win the U.S. Women's Amateur and U.S. Girls' Junior last year and enters match play as the No. 1 seed. Two-time U.S. Women's Amateur champion Kay Cockerill will be an analyst for Golf Channel's coverage along with the aforementioned Emilia Doran, Steve Burkowski (play-by-play), Jim Gallagher Jr., (analyst), and Julia Johnson (on-course). PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS: BOEING CLASSIC Stephen Ames will look to win the Boeing Classic at Snoqualmie Ridge outside of Seattle for the third consecutive year. The field includes Justin Leonard, who recently finished in second place at the Senior Open Championship, as well as Miguel Angel Jimenez, Stewart Cink, and Angel Cabrera. Live coverage on the NBC Sports app airs Friday at 7 p.m. ET. GOLF Channel coverage airs Friday at 10 p.m. ET, Saturday at 6 p.m. ET, and Sunday at 4 p.m. ET. DP WORLD TOUR: NEXO CHAMPIONSHIP The Nexo Championship was most recently played as the Scottish Championship in 2020 and won by Adrian Otaegui. This week's event will be held at Trump International Golf Links in Scotland. Following the event, the DP World Tour's Closing Swing will conclude with the Danish Golf Championship. Thursday-Saturday coverage on GOLF Channel begins at 7:30 a.m. ET, with Sunday's coverage beginning at 6:30 a.m. ET. --NBC SPORTS--
Fox News
3 hours ago
- Fox News
Which 10 Non-QBs Would Most Likely Command Two First-Round Picks In A Trade?
Players like Micah Parsons are rarely, if ever, traded. NFL teams do not let top-tier talents at top-tier positions get away, either as free agents or in trades. More often than not, no matter how toxic things seem, teams simply pay the player more than anyone at their position has ever made, and they hug and smile and move on. However, the relationship between the Dallas Cowboys and Parsons has deteriorated to the point that he has requested a trade. As a result, you have an All-Pro in his prime, at age 26, theoretically available. Again, the likely outcome is Dallas ponying up possibly $42 million a year to keep him, but until it does, it's a chance for us to traffic in very entertaining scenarios, no matter how unlikely they might be. NFL teams trade huge ransoms to acquire quarterbacks all the time, but non-quarterbacks commanding multiple first-round picks? It's a short list of late. The Seattle Seahawks gave up two first-rounders to get safety Jamal Adams from the New York Jets in 2020, and the Chicago Bears gave up two firsts (a little less with accompanying pick swaps) to get edge rusher Khalil Mack from the Raiders in 2018. Unless you're trying to pull off a Jay Cutler joke, you have to go back to Ricky Williams (2002) and Keyshawn Johnson (2000) to find a non-quarterback drawing multiple first-round picks in a trade. And one more caveat: not all first-round picks are valued the same. If the Philadelphia Eagles want to offer their next two firsts, you know you're picking very late in the first round, wherein a team likely picking in the top 10 might have more currency in a single first-rounder. So to say "multiple first-rounders" is like saying you have two coins in your pocket, knowing they might be quarters, but also might be nickels. But with Parsons, Cincinnati Bengals edge rusher Trey Hendrickson and Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin all in fractured states with their teams, it's a fun time to ask a big hypothetical: Which current non-quarterbacks would command multiple first-round picks in a trade? Here's the list we came up with, ranking the players from most likely to least likely to command multiple first-round picks in a potential move. No, the Bengals aren't trading Chase, or Joe Burrow, or any other key piece of a prolific passing offense. But if they did, the return would be incredible. Chase is still only 25 and coming off a Triple Crown season, leading the NFL with 127 catches for 1,708 yards and 17 touchdown receptions. Would he be as productive with another team? Probably not, but he's a nightmare for defenses, and even at a standard-setting price of $40.25 million a year, he would be coveted as the rare playmaker he is. He's only 26, so a team acquiring Parsons would, in theory, get the best years of his NFL career — give him four years and $170 million and he's a free agent again at 30 in spring 2030, younger than T.J. Watt is today. Four Pro Bowls in four seasons, as well as 52.5 sacks. For all the public acrimony between him and Jerry Jones, the most likely outcome is him staying in Dallas. If Parsons stays healthy, he's on pace to have the Cowboys' career sack record (DeMarcus Ware has 117) by the end of that deal. He's 29 and hasn't even gotten to the four-year, $160 million extension he signed through the 2030 season, so acquiring him means a significant investment in not only who he is now, but who he'll be in three or four years. He's been a first-team All-Pro selection in four of the last five years, with at least 14 sacks in each of the last four years. It seems wild to give up two first-rounders for the right to pay someone top-three non-QB money, but elite pass-rushers are rare enough a team would do it. His 7,432 receiving yards are easily the most ever in a player's first five seasons. At 26, Jefferson's a year removed from signing a four-year, $140 million deal that already feels like good value. Minnesota is not about to trade him — and it once traded Randy Moss when he was 28 — but if it did, Jefferson would be right there with Chase as the most high-demand receivers a team could ask for. If there's a gripe, it's that he has only 40 touchdowns, which is the 30th-most in a player's first five seasons. Hear me out. With any of those top four, you're not only giving up a package of picks, you're paying top dollar for what you're getting. With Verse, if the Rams were crazy enough to trade him, you get him insanely cheap on his rookie contract — basically $6 million for the next three years. That's a cash and cap savings of, conservatively, $90 million. So, of course, teams will give up more in draft assets when there's such a bargain on top of a disruptive pass rusher just beginning to emerge as a star. It's easy to only focus on the high-dollar positions like edge rusher, wide receiver and offensive tackle — the last time a player was worth two first-rounders, it was a safety, after all. But that speaks to how rarely teams part with the best players at the best positions, and Wirfs, 26, has been that for the Bucs, earning first-team All-Pro honors at right and left tackle. Until recently, he was the highest-paid offensive lineman in NFL history, but that wouldn't stop a team from dealing away high picks for the steady, dominant play Wirfs has shown in five seasons in Tampa, helping the Bucs to a Super Bowl championship and four division titles. Jacksonville gave up the No. 5 pick, another first-rounder and a second to move up for Hunter, then gave him a $31 million signing bonus, so there is no reality where they'd trade him before he played a snap. We could stipulate "no rookies" in this list, yes, but we haven't. Let's say Hunter, as a rare two-way star, is upset with how the Jaguars intend to use him — he isn't — and let's say it became irreconcilable. Of course, with Jacksonville on the hook for two-thirds of his rookie contract already, you could argue he's worth three first-rounders. It's a fictional scenario that won't happen, but we'll throw it in here just to imagine what a deal could be. Back to the high-paid elites, and Surtain is 25 and the reigning AP Defensive Player of the Year. He's played four seasons in Denver and has three Pro Bowls along with two first-team All-Pro nods. His four-year, $96 million contract is a bargain compared to the ballooning receiver deals. He's the best player at his position for 60% of the cost of the guy he's shutting down on Sundays. If he were truly available, teams wouldn't hesitate to overpay to add a shutdown corner entering his best years. We could point to other under-30 pass rushers like Maxx Crosby, Aidan Hutchinson or Nick Bosa, but they're all very well-paid, or in the case of Hutchinson, soon to be well-paid. So we'll go back to the impossibly cheap guy only halfway through his rookie deal. Anderson is 23 and will make all of $9.5 million over the next two years (with a fifth-year option after that). He went from seven sacks as a rookie to 11 last season. Houston gave up two first-rounders and then some to get him, so it's not trading him anytime soon, but if it did, it'd get a haul back for him. We could go with another young elite offensive tackle like Detroit's Penei Sewell, but we'll let another key position be represented on the list here. Lawrence, 27, had a career-best nine sacks last year despite missing five games with injury. He's made the Pro Bowl in each of the last three years, and while he's making $22 million a year. That's still $10 million less than what Kansas City Chiefs star Chris Jones makes, so a team could get him for three more years of high-level play and he's barely 30 when the deal is up. Greg Auman is an NFL Reporter for FOX Sports. He previously spent a decade covering the Buccaneers for the Tampa Bay Times and The Athletic. You can follow him on Twitter at @gregauman. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!
Fox News
3 hours ago
- Fox News
Cowboys' Jerry Jones not confident Micah Parsons will play Week 1 after trade request
Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said he does not know if star pass rusher Micah Parsons will play in Week 1. The Cowboys begin their season Sept. 4 against the division rival and defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. This week, Jones was asked if he was confident Parsons would be a part of that lineup. "No, absolutely not," Jones told reporters after the team's joint practice with the Los Angeles Rams Tuesday. "A big part of that is his decision. How would I know that? No, but I'm urgent." Jones said that he has not spoken to Parsons since the star made a trade request, but Jones said that stays "urgent." Jones has remained steadfast in his praise of Parsons after his trade request. "I think the world of Micah," Jones said. "Like I've said, I've had social time with Micah, which isn't always the case, but I have. He's one of the brightest people I've ever been around, and he's very, very talented. Now, how we ultimately (mix) him in with our future is a challenge, and I'm built for it, he's built for it." Parsons has still attended practice and attended meetings while the contract talks continue to stall. The four-time Pro Bowler announced his trade request on social media Friday, and Parsons cited "radio silence" from the Cowboys regarding a contract extension in both this and last offseason. In Parsons' post to social media, he said he did everything he could to show he wanted to stay with the Cowboys. "Yes I wanted to be here. I did everything I could to show that I wanted to be a Cowboy and wear the star on my helmet. I wanted to play in front of the best fans in sports and make this Americas [sic] team once again. The team my pops and I grew up cheering for way up in Harrisburg, PA. Unfortunately, I no longer want to be here," Parsons wrote in his post. "I no longer want to be held to close door negotiations without my agent present. I no longer want shots taken at me for getting injured while laying it on the line for the organization, our fans and my teammates. I no longer want narratives created and spread to the media about me. I had purposely stayed quiet in hopes of getting something done." If Parsons does not play Week 1, it would be a major blow to the team's defense. He has been one of the premier passrushers since being selected 12th overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft out of Penn State. Parsons has made the Pro Bowl in all four seasons of his career. In 63 career games, Parsons has 52½ sacks with 172 solo tackles and nine forced fumbles. Last season, Parsons had 12 sacks in 13 games.
