When they traded for Jarrett Allen, the Cavaliers knew they were getting a quality player. The Cavs signed Allen to a five-year, $100 million contract on Friday, securing the 23-year-old center as one of their foundational players. Allen, who came over from Brooklyn in a midseason deal, was a restricted free agent before coming to terms with Cleveland earlier this week.
Social media users are outraged as Gong Lijiao, an Olympic gold medalist who made a historic win on Sunday, was called a “manly woman” and asked of her plans for a “woman’s life.” The win: The four-time Olympian won the women’s shot put event with a career-best of 20.58 meters (67.52 feet), bringing home China’s first gold medal in an Olympic field event. The feat was also the first gold medal for any Asian athlete in shot put.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Harris English has made 14 birdies and an eagle in reaching 13 under par through two rounds at the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. And he’s done it while looking at rainbows and gold ribbons. English, who has been a passionate supporter of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital since winning in Memphis for the first time in 2013, is using a white, lightweight carry bag this week that was built by his sponsor, Ping, and features the rainbows-and-ribbons artwork of former St. Jude patient Bridget Korn. Korn was diagnosed in 2019 with bone cancer in her right foot/leg area, resulting in a below-the-knee amputation, but today she is cancer free and doing well. Her mother worked for Ping at the time of the diagnosis and remains close with the staff at the Phoenix-based clubmaker. “It’s really easy for me to get onboard with that,” said English, who pledged to donate $1,000 per birdie this week to St. Jude. “St. Jude has been big for me, going to the hospital after I first won here, getting to know some of the patients. It’s an incredible organization and I’ll always support it. For Ping to get behind it and do something like this is great. “For me it shows there’s more to golf than the birdies and bogeys,” English continued. “There’s a hospital 12 miles from here, and there are kids in there who are struggling and trying to fight every day to live. It’s cool to be part of the awareness, and making people understand that St. Jude is a wonderful thing to give to and try to get rid of cancer.” English is having perhaps his best season at fifth in the FedExCup thanks largely to victories at the Sentry Tournament of Champions and the recent Travelers Championship. He’s a four-time PGA TOUR winner whose first victory, at TPC Southwind eight years ago, was unforgettable in more ways than one. “It is tough,” he said. “It’s hard to see these kids. Like, why them? Why are they sick and I’m happy and playing the sport I love? I hate it. It makes you want to do everything you can do.”
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Harris English shot a 5-under 65 on Friday at TPC Southwind to hold onto the lead in the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. English withstood strong challenges from Cameron Smith and Abraham Ancer to hold the top spot at 13-under 127. Smith had a 62 that required only 18 putts, tying a PGA TOUR record for fewest putts in a round. Ancer shot a bogey-free 62, his tour-leading 14th bogey-free round of the season. RELATED: Full leaderboard | Leishman’s emotional reunion with parents Ian Poulter (66), Scottie Scheffler (65) and Sam Burns (64) were 10 under, and Louis Oosthuizen (64) and Bryson DeChambeau (66) were 9 under. DeChambeau missed the Tokyo Olympics last week because of a positive test for COVID-19. English opened the World Golf Championships event Thursday with a 62 to match his lowest PGA TOUR score and entered the second round with a two-stroke advantage over a foursome that included Poulter. The 2013 winner at TPC Southwind, English showed no signs of relinquishing his lead from the outset. Starting on the back nine, he rolled in a 35-foot birdie putt on the par-3 11th and added birdies at 14 and 16. The only blemish during English’s round was a bogey on the par-4 second hole. He missed a 9-foot par putt, but recovered immediately with an eagle on the par-5 third. He hit his approach inside 5 feet and made the putt to go up by three strokes. He added another birdie at No. 8. Two of English’s four PGA TOUR victories come this season, the Sentry Tournament of Champions in January in Hawaii and the Travelers Championship in June in Connecticut. He finished third in the U.S. Open. “This game is all about confidence and if you have confidence on your side, you just run with it,” English said. “In years past, a (bad shot) would send me into a downward spiral. Now I’m enjoying the grind of it.” A relatively wind-free day produced an abundance of low scores. Of the top 37 on the leaderboard, 34 shot 69 or better. With 48 of the world’s top 50 players in the 66-player field, English can’t afford to be comfortable with how the first two rounds have gone. “You’ve got to keep the gas pedal down,” he said. “The scores are pretty low right now and you can’t let up.” Smith, who finished 10th at the Tokyo Olympics last weekend, said he wasn’t aware of how few putts he had taken until he “adding them up” as he walked down the 17th fairway. “I said, `That can’t be right’,” Smith said. “It was just a good day on the greens. The surfaces here are so good.” Smith also had a bogey-free round that included an eagle on the par-5 third hole. He needed only seven putts through the first nine holes. On the back nine, he rolled in birdies on Nos. 12, 14 and 16 – all inside 25 feet – and nearly added a birdie on 18, sliding his 22-foot putt just left of the cup. Ancer used solid iron play to post his 62. Each of his eight birdie putts was inside 17 feet. “I’m really happy with the way I stroked the ball,” he said. “My long irons were spot on.”
Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz on Friday fired two police officers who authorities have said violated the law while attending events in Washington D.C. during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Married officers Caitlin and Alexander Everett were fired because “they crossed the outdoor barriers established by the Capitol Police and were directly next to the Capitol Building,” Diaz said in a statement. Diaz also called the officers’ presence at the Capitol that day as “an attack on our profession and on every officer across the country.”
Transocean (NYSE: RIG) fell 20% in July as lower oil prices soured investor sentiment on oil production and exploration stocks. No bad news came out in the month about Transocean, specifically, but lower-than-expected crude oil prices could threaten the company’s financial performance in the coming quarters. Crude oil spot prices recovered throughout the first half of 2021, and the West Texas Intermediate spot price was above $75 per barrel entering July.
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