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Edison girls open season with a win EAST SPRINGFIELD — The Edison girls golf team earned a victory in their home opener on Tuesday. Taking on local foe Harrison Central in their first home match of the season at Spring Hills Golf Course, the Wildcats fired a team score of 169 to top the Huskies by 36 strokes. Kallie McKeegan led the way for the Wildcats, carding a score of 33 to be the low score of the day. Also for Edison, Bella Evans turned in a 41, Mady Cornell a 46 and Teagan Reynolds a 49. The Wildcats are back in action on Aug. 14 at the Meadowbrook invite in ...

Chourio, Vaughn, Henderson lead Brewers over Pirates

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jackson Chourio and Andrew Vaughn homered, Logan Henderson allowed two runs in six innings to win his sixth consecutive decision, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 on Tuesday night. Henderson (6-1), whose only loss was in early May, allowed four ...

PGA Tour regular season ends what has been a strange year of no one dominating

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Billy Horschel was optimistic as ever in January to start his 16th year on the PGA Tour. He chose not to add a few tournaments late in 2025 when returning from hip surgery, and that probably cost him a sure spot in the Masters because he fell out of the top 50 in the world. There were no regrets. "I'm betting on myself," Horschel said at the Sony Open. He has reached the end of the regular season at No. 176 in the world, which isn't nearly as troubling as being No. 107 in the FedEx Cup in a year when his full exempt status is set to expire. It's a reminder how golf offers no ...

Ohio State and Oregon are 1-2 in preseason coaches poll, SEC's 9 ranked teams leads all conferences

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Ohio State and Oregon hold down the top two spots and the Southeastern Conference has five of the top 10 teams in the USA Today preseason coaches football poll released Tuesday. The Buckeyes received 38 of the 72 first-place votes and were well ahead of the Ducks, who got six first-place votes. No. 3 Georgia received seven first-place votes, No. 4 Texas got two and No. 5 Notre Dame five. Defending national champion Indiana was No. 6 with 14 first-place votes and was followed by Miami, the team it beat in the College Football Playoff championship game. Texas A&M, Oklahoma and ...

Dodgers (and Red Sox?!) are going for it — Is anybody else?

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The Los Angeles Dodgers landed perhaps the best pitcher in baseball in Tarik Skubal, triggering another round of disgust over how the two-time defending champions seem to get every star they want. Bryce Harper — who might have to go through the Dodgers to reach the World Series with ...