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Toronto Star
8 hours ago
- Sport
- Toronto Star
Rangers' Nathan Eovaldi scheduled to make first second-half start Friday against Braves
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Texas' Nathan Eovaldi is scheduled to make his first start following the All-Star break on Friday night when the Rangers host the Atlanta Braves. Eovaldi (7-3) made his most recent start July 13, allowing one run in 7 2/3 innings in a 5-1 victory at Houston. The 35-year-old right-hander was scheduled to start last Sunday against Detroit but was scratched because of back stiffness.
Winnipeg Free Press
9 hours ago
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
Rangers' Nathan Eovaldi scheduled to make first second-half start Friday against Braves
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Texas' Nathan Eovaldi is scheduled to make his first start following the All-Star break on Friday night when the Rangers host the Atlanta Braves. Eovaldi (7-3) made his most recent start July 13, allowing one run in 7 2/3 innings in a 5-1 victory at Houston. The 35-year-old right-hander was scheduled to start last Sunday against Detroit but was scratched because of back stiffness. Eovaldi wasn't selected to the AL All-Star squad but was awarded a $100,000 All-Star bonus in his contract by the Rangers after he posted a 1.58 ERA with 94 strikeouts over 91 innings. 'I was caught off-guard by it, very thankful,' Eovaldi, who was named to the team in 2021 with Boston and 2023 with the Rangers, recently said about the bonus. Eovaldi missed a month from late May to late June because of a triceps injury. Also, Texas activated right-hander Jon Gray on Wednesday and designated right-hander Luke Jackson for assignment. Gray fractured his right forearm during spring training. Thursdays Keep up to date on sports with Mike McIntyre's weekly newsletter. ___ AP MLB:
NBC Sports
18 hours ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Virginia's Ben James debuts at No. 1 in first PGA Tour U ranking
The first PGA Tour University ranking for the Class of 2026 is out. Virginia's Ben James debuts at No. 1, followed by Texas' Christiaan Maas, Ole Miss' Michael La Sasso, Texas' Tommy Morrison and Oklahoma's Jase Summy. The ranking takes into account players' results from NCAA Division-I tournaments, official PGA Tour events and select DP World Tour events, starting the week after the 2024 NCAA Championship and through next spring's NCAA Championship. The top-ranked player following NCAAs will receive full PGA Tour membership for the remainder of the 2026 season through the 2027 season. Nos. 2-10 get Korn Ferry Tour status for 2026, with Nos. 2-5 also being exempt into the final stage of Q-School at the end of the year. Nos. 6-25 are exempt into second stage, while Nos. 11-25 receive PGA Tour Americas status for 2026. Here are the top 25 players in the first ranking: The first 2025-26 PGA Tour U ranking is out. Top five: Ben James Christiaan Maas Michael La Sasso Tommy Morrison Jase Summy
NBC Sports
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- NBC Sports
Scottie Scheffler, the standard for Texas men's golf and who will soon serve up 'Scheff's Kitchen'
Before Scottie Scheffler was a four-time major champion. Before he was a major champion at all. Before he even captured a PGA Tour title. Scheffler was locked in a battle with Billy Horschel in the final of the 2021 WGC-Dell Match Play. The 24-year-old Scheffler's bid for, at the time, his maiden Tour victory ended on Austin Country Club's 17th hole, where Texas head coach John Fields and his wife, Pearl, were waiting for the former Longhorn standout as he walked off the green. Scheffler gave both a hug, then turned toward a golf cart, where Scheffler's wife, Meredith, was already sitting on the back seat. Prior to Scheffler hopping on, however, a group of about 25 kids had arrived with their hands full of flags, hats and other things they were hoping to get signed. Not hesitating, Scheffler obliged. 'He signed whatever they asked for, took a few selfies,' Fields recalled, 'and then when he finally got in the golf cart, he put his face in his hands, and he just exploded crying because he was so mad he had just lost the match, and yet, he didn't let those kids see that.' Fields can count on one hand the number of players he's coached who are as competitive as Scheffler. The difference between Scheffler and everyone else is Scheffler's extraordinary ability to channel that fire, to let it burn but not burn the house down – better than anybody, too. It wasn't always that way, though it certainly seems as if it was. 'He's found a way to be very professional, but he also really enjoys people,' Fields added. At the start of each season, Fields sits his teams down and tries to instill in them the Texas way. Simple things, such as taking your hat off when indoors, or looking people directly in the eyes when shaking their hands while making them feel like they are the most important person in the room. For years, Fields would use Jack Nicklaus as the gold standard for compartmentalizing golf and other aspects of life, being where your feet are, and finding success in the moment. You know, all the things that make one great. Scheffler is the new standard. While Scheffler now owns three of the four legs to the career Grand Slam, 17 PGA Tour titles and loads of comparisons to the likes of Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Ben Hogan, he might be lauded more for his titles of husband, father, son and friend. Scheffler's priorities, he repeated Sunday evening at Royal Portrush, are faith, family and golf, in that order. As much as Scheffler loves golf, and competing, he'd quit it all tomorrow, he says, if it started to negatively affect those first two tenets. As hard as it can be sometimes, Scheffler strives to live as normal a life off the course as possible. When he got too recognizable at his usual Chipotle north of Dallas, he started driving a little farther to another location, where he wouldn't get recognized as much. When Scheffler returned to Austin last fall for Texas' alumni pro-am, Fields called one of his players, Dallas native Ben DeLaRosa, off the golf so that DeLaRosa could assist Scheffler with what would surely be extreme demands for his time – Fields argues now that Scheffler has 'moved a little bit past' fellow Longhorn great and major champ Jordan Spieth, and many of the Texas faithful certainly feel that way as well. Not that the cerebral Scheffler needed much help; upon arriving at the course, he cleverly draped his Olympic gold medal around Pearl Fields' neck. 'That helped him because he knew everyone wanted to see that gold medal … and Pearl got to be an Olympian for the day,' John Fields said. 'He just finds fun ways to enjoy that moment but not be too overwhelmed by it, and he's really good about it.' While Scheffler is undoubtedly a role model for whomever comes through the Texas men's golf program these days, his impact will soon go beyond that. Fields revealed Monday afternoon that the Schefflers are funding a renovation of the Longhorns' practice facility at UT Golf Club. A few years ago, Jordan Spieth helped design and back the construction of the Spieth Lower 40, a six-hole short course at the club. Another Texas alum, Tom Kite, recently redid the team's chipping area. Now, future Longhorns – hopefully by next summer – will be able to cut their teeth on a new, state-of-the-art practice range. The name of it? Scheff's Kitchen, which is always serving.
Hamilton Spectator
3 days ago
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
Majors-best Tigers end 6-game skid with All-Star Tarik Skubal's strong start
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — It was naturally a superb start by Tarik Skubal that resulted in a 2-1 Detroit Tigers win over the Texas Rangers on Sunday night that ended a season-worst six-game losing streak for the team with the best record in the major leagues. However, Skubal didn't get credit for the victory. The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner and starter in Tuesday's All-Star Game cruised into the seventh inning with a two-hit shutout and a tenuous 1-0 lead. He left with runners at the corners and two outs, and the Rangers' Adolis García scored on a wild pitch by Tyler Holton. But Detroit's Matt Vierling hit a tiebreaking single with two outs in the eighth inning, and Will Vest entered in the eighth and got four straight outs — against the top four batters in Texas' order — for his 16th save for the Tigers (60-40). Skubal left the park still with 10 wins (one shy of the AL lead), 164 strikeouts (one behind Boston's Garrett Crochet) and a 2.19 ERA (tied with Crochet for the best in the American League). 'We're the first to 60, right? That matters more (than his personal stats),' Skubal said. 'We just haven't particularly been playing our best baseball, I don't think, for the last couple weeks. That's just part of the season. Not from lack of effort or anything like that. But I knew I wanted to win today. I expect every time I go out there to put our team in position to win, and we were able to do that.' Skubal struck out 11 and walked none in his seventh double-digit strikeout game this season. His final batter was a strikeout of Jonah Heim that left him at 105 pitches, three short of his career high. Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said Skubal 'emptied his tank' on the Heim at-bat and made the pitching change to avoid overworking him. 'If we're going anywhere (this season), we're going with him,' Hinch said. Two of Texas' four hits off Skubal were by Corey Seager, the lone left-handed hitter in the starting lineup against the lefty Skubal. Seager went 2 for 3 off Skubal, improving to 8 for 12 in his career. Skubal said he asked Seager during last year's All-Star festivities: 'Bro, how do I get you out? Can you tell me?' Seager, Skubal said, politely declined and claimed not to see the ball well when hitting against him. 'When he's right, the stuff he does at the dish, the best in the league,' Skubal said. Skubal is again among the best in baseball on the mound. He did his part in ending what was the majors' longest active losing streak, even without getting a personal W. ___ AP MLB:
