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Reuters
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
NFL to consider players competing in Olympic flag football
May 15 - NFL owners are planning to discuss a resolution to allow players to participate in flag football at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The resolution under consideration for next week's spring meeting in Minneapolis would permit no more than one player from each NFL team to participate. Each team's designated international player also would be allowed to participate for his country when the Summer Games features flag football for the first time. The NFL proposal includes a few caveats that would protect teams in case of injuries, including providing salary cap credit for any players hurt while participating and establishing "certain minimum standards for medical staff and field surfaces." In addition, the flag football schedule and related events cannot "unreasonably" conflict with an NFL player's team and league commitments. The gold medal game is the same week teams report to training camp. --Field Level Media
Miami Herald
24-03-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Naomi Osaka grabs first win since Australia in Miami opener
Naomi Osaka of Japan earned a much-needed win in the opening round of the Miami Open on Tuesday, defeating Ukraine's Yuliia Starodubtseva 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in nearly two and a half hours. It was Osaka's first victory since winning her second-round match at the Australian Open in January -- and a step in the right direction after she called her first-round loss at Indian Wells the worst match of her career. 'I knew that I wasn't playing too well, but I thought, 'Let me try to stay on the court as long as possible,' because I consider Miami my home,' Osaka said in her on-court interview. '(At Indian Wells) I was just over-hitting a lot, so I tried to use my legs. I was going to run into every corner if I had to, and we were going to have to play for three hours if she was going to beat me.' Osaka used more than her legs. She out-served Starodubtseva with a 10-0 advantage in aces. Currently ranked No. 61 in the world, the four-time Grand Slam champion is antsy to go further in a main draw and face higher-ranked foes again. 'I want to play with the big dogs so bad, and I just see everyone playing so well, and I want to do the same,' she told reporters. 'But I have to remember it's a process.' Her next opponent will be No. 24 seed Liudmila Samsonova, who had a first-round bye. Sofia Kenin got past 2023 Miami champion Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 7-5. Kenin absorbed 13 aces by Kvitova and converted 4 of 6 break-point chances. She'll face fellow American and third seed Coco Gauff, who also had a bye. Ashlyn Krueger of the U.S. had the quickest win of the day by beating Mexico's Renata Zarazua 6-3, 6-2 in 70 minutes. Most of the other matches of the day went three sets. Winners included Americans Taylor Townsend, Hailey Baptiste, Lauren Davis and Alycia Parks, Elena-Gabriela Ruse of Romania, Linda Fruhvirtova and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic, Slovakia's Rebecca Sramkova, Bulgaria's Viktoriya Tomova and Switzerland's Rebeka Masarova. Advancing in straight sets were Romanian Sorana Cirstea, Italian Lucia Bronzetti and Poland's Magda Linette. Field Level Media 2025 - All Rights Reserved
Reuters
06-02-2025
- Climate
- Reuters
The short of it: LIV makes wardrobe rule change
February 6 - When the fourth season of LIV Golf teed off on Thursday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, there was a notable change to the league's normally laid-back look. The players weren't wearing shorts, despite the heat of the desert. Player-turned-broadcaster Pat Perez revealed on the league's podcast, "Fairway to Heaven," that shorts were off-limits going forward. "The players are wearing pants all year," Perez said. "I got it confirmed the other day that the players are wearing pants." No reason for the change was explained. While the PGA Tour has never allowed shorts as part of its dress code, the rules were looser when the rival league started up in 2022. This week's season opener in Riyadh is the first of 13 events in the regular season before the team championship this fall. --Field Level Media
