5:19 PM ET Tony Finau has withdrawn from this week’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open after testing positive for COVID-19, the PGA Tour announced Tuesday. “Earlier today, I received a positive result for Covid-19 under PGA TOUR on-site testing protocols and have begun a period of self-quarantine to protect others around me,” he wrote on
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4:42 PM ET Steve KimESPN The long-awaited battle of undefeated British heavyweights Daniel Dubois and Joe Joyce will now take place on Nov. 28, according to promoter Frank Warren. Dubois-Joyce has already been pushed back from April, July and October, with Warren hoping to have fans allowed inside an arena for the fight. “With boxing
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11:54 AM ET Associated Press Charlotte Thomas has withdrawn from the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship after her caddie tested positive for the coronavirus. Thomas dropped out because she was in close contact with the caddie and will begin a 14-day quarantine. Thomas, 27, was among the field set to play beginning Thursday at Aronimink Golf
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12:19 PM ET The Latin America Amateur Championship, whose winner gets an automatic invitation to The Masters and The Open, has been canceled for 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The event, which is sponsored by the USGA, the R&A and The Masters and has been played since 2014, was scheduled for Jan. 14-17
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10:18 AM ET Prosecutors in France have opened an investigation into match-fixing at the ongoing French Open, according to French news service AFP. The target is a doubles match featuring Romanian pair Andreea Mitu and Patricia Maria Tig, and Yana Sizikova of Russia and her American partner, Madison Brengle. No individual player has been named
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10:40 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — After becoming the first qualifier to reach the women’s semifinals at Roland Garros in the Open era, Nadia Podoroska threw her racket in the air, tilted her head back and pumped both fists. Podoroska had just knocked out Elina Svitolina, the French Open’s third seed who, on Tuesday,
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