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USA Today
2 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Who's up, who's down in FedEx Cup Playoffs after Friday at FedEx St. Jude Championship
The pressure was ramped up at last week's Wyndham Championship and it's only getting more intense. We're talking about the FedEx Cup Playoffs and the battle to stay alive for East Lake. The regular season ended last week with the top 70 PGA Tour golfers advancing to this week's FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis. Sunday night, golf's version of Survivor gets trimmed to the top 50. Through two days of action at TPC Southwind, things are taking shape, but there's the completion of the weather-delayed second round as well as the third and final rounds to be played. Who's up in the FedEx Cup Playoffs projected standings? Some of the big movers up include: St. Jude tournament leader Tommy Fleetwood, to No. 6 from No. 9. St. Jude first-round leader Akshay Bhatia, to No. 4 from No. 45. Justin Rose, to No. 12 from No. 25. Harry Hall, to No. 22 from No. 44. Bud Cauley, to No. 24 from No. 53. Perhaps the one taking most advantage of his week, Cauley is one of two golfers now projected to move into the top 50 for next week's BMW Championship. Thomas Detry, to No. 30 from No. 35. Like Cauley, Detry has moved into the top 30, which is the threshold to make the Tour Championship in two weeks. Si Woo Kim, to No. 31 from No. 46. Rickie Fowler, to No. 48 from No. 64. Fowler is another one of those who started the week outside the top 50 but has, for now, played his way into the BMW field. Who's down in the FedEx Cup Playoffs projected standings? And while some move up, others move down. Jake Knapp is one of those who was inside the top 50 but, as of Friday night, is not. He's down to No. 54 from No. 47. Min Woo Lee is the other. He started the week as the BMW 'Bubble Boy' at No. 50, but he's now at No. 56. Others going the wrong way so far include Viktor Hovland (down to No. 34 from No. 26), Sungjae Im (down to No. 38 from No. 29) What does the FedEx Cup Playoffs bubble look like? Jordan Spieth is now the BMW Bubble Boy as he's down two spots from No. 48. He's posted rounds of 69 and 70 and is just 1 under after 36 holes. Here's the last five in, first five out as of Friday night. No. 46 Wyndham Clark No. 47 Tom Hoge No. 48 Rickie Fowler No. 49 Aldrich Potgieter No. 50 Jordan Spieth No. 51 Kurt Kitayama No. 52 Joe Highsmith No. 53 J.T. Poston No. 54 Jake Knapp No. 55 Jhonattan Vegas
Washington Post
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Numbingly bland ‘Novocaine' is a painful action-comedy misfire
Even with a gimmick engineered to orchestrate endless bursts of Looney Tunes-style hyperviolence, 'Novocaine' lives up to its name, all right — a tedious action-comedy so numbingly bland, you feel the pain of its 110-minute run time even as its protagonist can't feel a thing. The conceit is somewhat novel, at least, in a genre stuffed with heroes who usually win the day with only a few scratches. Jack Quaid is Nathan Caine, a mild-mannered assistant bank manager who lives a terribly dull existence, owing to a rare genetic disorder known as CIPA (congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis), a real affliction that affects one in 125 million people. It renders him unable to register pain, and thus unaware of when he's in danger of serious injury or death. So he covers the sharp corners in his bachelor pad with tennis balls, enjoys a nonexistent social life and generally avoids all manner of risk, a la Bubble Boy without the bubble.
