Derrick Rose is the newest member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, signing a one-year, $2.1 million…
Lee McCoy has already had success north of the border in 2017. That continued Monday, when he qualified for the RBC Canadian Open. McCoy shot 67 on Monday at Heron Point Golf Links in Alberton, Ontario, Canada, then advanced out of a six-man playoff for one of the final two spots. Jhared Hack also made it out of the playoff, while Canadians Drew Nesbitt and Riley Wheeldon shot 66 to share medalist honors. McCoy, 23, is fourth on the Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada’s money list after winning this year’s Freedom 55 Financial Open by eight shots. The former University of Georgia standout finished fourth in last year’s Valspar Championship while still an amateur. He has played two TOUR events this season, finishing T41 at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open and T65 at the Valspar Championship. Wheeldon, who was teammates at the University of Louisville with 2017 Valspar winner Adam Hadwin, has played six events on the Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada this year, missing four cuts. He also played the RBC Canadian Open in 2013, missing the cut. The 26-year-old’s only other PGA TOUR start was a missed cut at the 2014 Farmers Insurance Open. He finished second on the Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada money list in 2013. Hack, 27, is 11th on the Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada money list thanks to two third-place finishes in six starts this season. He will be making the second PGA TOUR start of his career (2015 The Honda Classic, MC). Nesbitt will be making his PGA TOUR debut. 2016-17 Monday qualifiers Qualifiers: 83 Made cut: 24 (28.9 percent) Top-25s: 4 (4.8 percent) Top-10s: 0 Top finishes this season T11. Keith Mitchell, Valspar Championship T17. Oscar Fraustro, OHL Classic at Mayakoba T17. J.T. Poston, Genesis Open T23. Andres Gonzales, Shell Houston Open Barbasol Championship qualifiers T42. Grant Leaver, 70-69-64-71 MC. Mookie DeMoss, 70-73 MC. Chip Deason, 73-70 MC. Brad Sill, 77-77
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The Bruins and Ryan Spooner wisely came to a contract agreement on a one-year, $2.825 million deal just prior to the start of Wednesday’s arbitration hearing. Don Sweeney hasn’t yet taken a B’s player to arbitration during his three years running the Black and Gold, and it could have grown unnecessarily contentious with a player like Spooner if they’d been forced to point out his flaws as a player in the uncomfortable setting of an arbitration hearing. “It’s a fair deal for both sides in our opinion,� said Spooner’s agent Murray Kuntz to CSN after the one-year contract had been agreed upon. Now that Spooner has been signed to the one-year deal, it represents the last chance for the 25-year-old
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The Ravens welcomed six intern coaches to training camp Wednesday, including a couple familiar faces, as part of the NFL Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship. Baltimore’s class is comprised of former Ravens linebacker Adalius Thomas, former Ravens cornerback Corey Ivy, Rutgers recruiting assistant
The Detroit Lions will get a longer than usual look at last year’s Super Bowl champions during the preseason. The Lions will host the New England Patriots for a joint workout before their preseason game next month, Patriots coach Bill Belichick told reporters at his season kickoff news conference
Ryan Spooner and the Bruins never made it to arbitration, settling on a one-year, $2.825 million contract ahead of Wednesday’s hearing, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. Hockey Night in Canada’s Elliotte Friedman was the first to report the agreement. Spooner and his camp sought a $3.85 million deal, while the Bruins submitted $2 million as their number. Settling outside of arbitration locks in the player at an affordable number while avoiding a potentially messy process. Though Spooner now has a contract, his future with the Bruins isn’t much clearer than it was at season’s end. The 25-year-old center was a healthy scratch for the last two games of Boston’s playoff run,
Bill Belichick walked into the packed media workroom at Gillette Stadium Wednesday morning for his first press conference of training camp 2017. The photo shoots and bike rides of summertime fun on Nantucket were clearly a thing of the past. Fall expectations and big picture questions were equally as
