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N.J. hosting four World Cup camps with addition of Haiti
Jun 16, 2022; New York, New York, USA; A general view of a hallway showing the FIFA World Cup 2026 logo leading to the FIFA World Cup Announcement room. Mandatory Credit: Jessica Alcheh-Imagn Images It will be a melting pot in the Garden State with Morocco and Haiti joining Brazil and Senegal with base camps in New Jersey for this summer’s World Cup, The Athletic reported Tuesday.
Brazil, Morocco and Haiti all were selected into Group C for the tournament.
Brazil will be based at the New York Red Bulls’ training facility in Morris Township ahead of its opening pair of group stage games June 13 at East Rutherford, N.J., and June 19 at Philadelphia.
Morocco will set up camp at Pingry School, a private college preparatory school near Bridgewater Township, as it gets set for its group-stage opener against Brazil at East Rutherford.
Haiti will be based at Stockton University in Galloway, which was host to Brazil’s Flamengo during last summer’s FIFA Club World Cup. Haiti plays its opener June 13 against Scotland in Foxborough, Mass., before facing Brazil at Philadelphia.
Senegal, which was selected into Group I, will be based at Rutgers University in Piscataway as it prepares for back-to-back games at East Rutherford on June 16 against France and June 22 against Norway.
–Field Level Media
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Aryna Sabalenka: Slam boycott could settle prize share dispute
Sep 6, 2025; Flushing, NY, USA; Aryna Sabalenka celebrates championship trophy after winning the women’s singles final against Amanda Anisimova (USA) (not pictured) of the 2025 US Open tennis championships at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Mandatory Credit: Mike Frey-Imagn Images World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka suggested players could organize a boycott of the Grand Slam tournaments to secure a bigger share of the prize money.
“At some point we will boycott,” the Belarusian star said at a news conference Tuesday in Rome ahead of the Italian Open. “I feel like that’s going to be the only way to kind of, like, fight for our rights.
“Let’s see how far we can get. If it’s going to take players for boycott. I feel like nowadays, we girls can easily get together and go for this because some of the things I feel like it’s really unfair to the players. I think at some point it’s going to get to this.”
Her comments came after a group of top players from the WTA Tour and ATP Tour met last weekend and voiced their disappointment with the players’ prize share for the upcoming French Open.
The total prize pool at Roland Garros is increasing by 9.5% over last year to a total of $72.3 million. That reportedly only represents about 15% of the French Open’s total projected revenue, a proportion players feel is far below what they deserve.
“Without us there wouldn’t be a tournament and there wouldn’t be that entertainment. I feel like definitely we deserve to be paid more percentage,” Sabalenka said Tuesday, the four-time Grand Slam winner’s 28th birthday.
By comparison, joint events on the ATP and WTA tours award 22% of the revenue to players, according to The Athletic. Players in leagues like the NFL, NBA and MLB earn closer to 50% of league revenues.
Organizers from the four majors — French Open, Wimbledon, U.S. Open and Australian Open — did not immediately respond to Sabalenka’s remarks.
World No. 3 Iga Swiatek of Poland called a potential boycott an “extreme” option but pointed to the power of players putting together a united front.
“I think the most important thing honestly is to have proper communication and discussions with the governing bodies so we have some space to talk and maybe negotiate,” she said. “Hopefully before Roland Garros there’s going to be (an) opportunity to have these types of meetings and we’ll see how they go.”
–Field Level Media
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Who Is the Best Golfer Without a Major? Breaking Down the Top Contenders
In this space just last month, I wrote that Tommy Fleetwood was “certainly the best player without a major title” going right now. I think Cameron Young might have pulled a Michael Jordan and taken that personally.
For an avid golf follower, I was slow to the Young hype train, but others like Fried Egg Golf’s PJ Clark were in the conductor’s chair. I vividly remember reading his piece “Confessions of a Cameron Young Addict” as we covered the U.S. Open last summer, before Young had even won on the PGA Tour.
Not only has Young won three times since then, two of them were The Players Championship (the “unofficial fifth major” of golf) and the PGA Tour’s newest signature event, the Cadillac Championship this weekend at Doral.
His opening-round 64 allowed him to go wire-to-wire and win by six strokes Sunday over Scottie Scheffler — and watching Young’s explosion, you get the feeling Scheffler is a good comp, a prospect people considered the best player yet to win on tour in 2022 until he started winning everything in sight.
We’re a week away from PGA Championship week, so I think it’s time for one of the more fun debates in sports: Who’s the best golfer in the world without a major title?
It feels like we don’t have the discussion as much as we did in the Tiger/Phil era, perhaps because of the great spread of winners since the turn of the decade. There have been 13 first-time major champs since Gary Woodland at the 2019 U.S. Open, with guys like Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau and Collin Morikawa claiming two and Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka padding their totals.
With all due respect to Colin Montgomerie and the generations before, we’re only going to explore active players and the current scene.
Two at the Top
Cameron Young: This New Yorker has been contending longer than you may realize. His T3 at the 2022 PGA Championship and runner-up to Cam Smith at St Andrews that year were the first two of his seven top-10 major finishes. He is an elite ball-striker who leads the PGA Tour this year in true strokes gained (which is adjusted for field strength), per DataGolf. Young’s major breakthrough is coming.
Tommy Fleetwood: Young is the hot commodity, but what Fleetwood has in his favor is longevity. His eight major top-10s are spread out since 2017 and he rarely misses cuts anymore. Instead of a Players Championship, he’s now the proud winner of a Tour Championship along with eight titles on the European Tour. It’d be a shame if his major career goes the way of Lee Westwood — always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
The Nordic Golf League
Ludvig Aberg: Briefly the next big prospect in golf, Aberg has settled into a good rhythm of contending at signature events, but he has just two wins on tour to show for it. Though he kicked off his major career by finishing second and seventh in consecutive Masters, he hasn’t shown up at any of the others.
Viktor Hovland: More accomplished than his Swedish counterpart, with a Tour Championship and FedEx Cup title on his resume, Hovland has one top-five at each major since 2022. Too bad he just hasn’t gotten his game in order yet in 2026.
The Dark Horse
Tyrrell Hatton: He may get overlooked because he’s currently with LIV Golf, but after tying for third at the Masters, Hatton may be the player on this list closer than anyone to winning major No. 1. The numbers are eerily similar to fellow Englishman Fleetwood: one PGA Tour title, eight wins in Europe and eight major top-10s.
The Lee Westwood Award for Lifetime Achievement
Rickie Fowler: Look, he’s no longer the most talented player on this list, but Fowler is the most accomplished. We won’t forget his generational run in the 2010s, but of his 13 major top-10s, only two have come this decade. His fans can only hope he has a final act in him; Fowler’s been one of the best putters on tour and just posted top-10s at back-to-back signature events.
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Minjee Lee among 6 LPGA players added to WTGL roster
Jun 22, 2025; Frisco, Texas, USA; Minjee Lee poses with the winner’s trophy following the final round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Mandatory Credit: Raymond Carlin III-Imagn Images Six more LPGA Tour players committed to participating in the inaugural WTGL season on Tuesday, including three-time major winner Minjee Lee.
In addition to Lee, an 11-time winner on the LPGA Tour from Australia, the newly announced participants in the tech-infused indoor golf league are Danielle Kang, Megan Khang, Andrea Lee, Celine Boutier of France and Albane Valenzuela of Switzerland
Play is expected to begin later this year at SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
WTGL has received 14 commitments from players, including five currently in the top 10 of the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings: No. 2 Jeeno Thitikul, No. 4 Charley Hull, No. 7 Lee, No. 9 Lydia Ko and No. 10 Lottie Woad.
“WTGL continues to build momentum as a global platform for LPGA stars and women’s team golf,” said Pete Jung, chief marketing officer of TMRW Sports. “With today’s brand reveal and 14 LPGA Tour players now committed — including major champions, Olympians and Solheim Cup players from around the world — this milestone underscores the excitement we’re seeing from players, team ownership groups and potential partners as we prepare for WTGL’s inaugural season.”
World No. 1 Nelly Korda has not committed to the league.
–Field Level Media
Aryna Sabalenka: Slam boycott could settle prize share dispute
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