Former NFL linebacker Anthony Wint will fight for a UFC contract on Dana White’s Contender Series, per multiple media reports.

Wint played college football at Florida International University, where he was a three-time All-Conference USA selection. He signed with the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2018.

He appeared in two NFL games that season, recording one tackle and a forced fumble.

In 2023, Wint made the shift to mixed martial arts. Thus far, he has collected a 6-0 record with four wins by knockout and one by submission.

The 30-year-old heavyweight is listed at 6’0″ and 224 pounds. He will take on Matt Adams (6-2) on August 11 at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas.

–Field Level Media

England’s Alex Fitzpatrick shot 7-under-par 64 to take the lead through three rounds of the Truist Championship on Saturday in Charlotte.

He’s at 14-under 199 with a one-shot lead on Norway’s Kristoffer Reitan, who posted a bogey-free 64, and a two-shot edge on Cameron Young, who recorded a 63.

It was a day with lots of movement on the leaderboard at Quail Hollow Club, where last May the PGA Championship was contested.

Fitzpatrick was 6 under for the round through 12 holes, pulling into a tie for the lead. He birdied Nos. 12 and 15 before the momentum was interrupted with a bogey on the 16th as he had to hit out of a greenside bunker. He needed an 8-foot putt for birdie on the next hole.

Young, who last weekend won the Cadillac Championship in Miami with a wire-to-wire effort, had an eagle on the par-5 seventh hole by sinking a 28-foot putt. His lone bogey came on the final hole.

Denmark’s Nicolai Hojgaard (67) and South Korea’s Sunjae Im (70), the second-round leader, share fourth place at 10 under.

Justin Thomas (69), J.J. Spaun (65) and England’s Tommy Fleetwood (70) are tied for sixth at 9 under.

Among the top 10 on the leaderboard, only Fitzpatrick and Thomas have kept their scores below 70 for all three rounds.

The start of the third round was delayed because of morning storms. It marked the second time in three days that a round was off schedule because of weather.

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Australia’s Lucas Herbert gave up half of his lead on Saturday during the third round of LIV Golf Virginia, yet his 4-under-par 68 was good enough to move to 21 under and carry a three-shot edge into the final round.

Herbert, 30, enjoys some daylight between him and Sergio Garcia (18 under after a 65) as he chases his first LIV title.

“I think, if you’d given me a three-shot lead going into Sunday at the start of the week, I’d have taken it in a heartbeat,” Herbert said. “You’ve got to put that in context, I think.”

The context is that Herbert was the only player in the top seven (through 54 holes) who didn’t shoot a 65 or better on Saturday.

Spain’s Josele Ballester was particularly brilliant as he fired a 12 under 60 to set the course record at Trump National in Potomac Falls, Va. Had he birdied each of the last two holes — he missed a 25-foot birdie try on No. 10, his final hole — he would have tied LIV’s 18-hole record.

“It’s been the first time in a while or first time this year that I kind of entered the flow zone,” Ballester said. “It seemed like everything was going easy or somewhat easy. I executed really well in all areas of the game. Towards the end when I felt the adrenaline and the pressure a little more, I still executed and made some good shots and some good putts.”

Bryson DeChambeau shot a 12-under par 58 to set the record at the 2023 LIV Golf Greenbrier event.

Despite the best round of his life, the 22-year-old Ballester finds himself eight shots back of Herbert. He shares third place with DeChambeau (64), Zimbabwe’s Scott Vincent (62), and South Africa’s Dean Burmester (65).

Spain’s Jon Rahm (12 under after a 65), Belgium’s Thomas Detry (-11, 66) and Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell (-11, 66) are the only other golfers within 10 shots of Herbert.

Garcia, who scrambled for a par at No. 13 after removing his socks and shoes and sinking his feet into the mud to hit a shot out of the pond, understands it won’t be a two-man race for the title on Sunday.

“You can’t just think, oh, it’s just Lucas and I,” Garcia said. “Obviously if we play well, it will be him and I, but we still have to go out there and play well. There’s still 18 holes to go, and anything can happen out there.”

–Field Level Media