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Boo Weekley snaps 13-year win drought at Insperity Invitational
Boo Weekley tees off on the first hole during the first round of the Galleri Classic at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., March 29, 2024. Boo Weekley delivered a bogey-free 3-under-par 69 to comfortably win his first Champions Tour event at the Insperity Invitational on Sunday in The Woodlands, Texas.
Weekley didn’t live up to the 6-under scores he posted in each of the first two rounds. But he still finished the event with no bogeys in 54 holes, finishing three strokes clear at 15-under-par 201 at The Woodlands Country Club.
For Weekley, who joined the Champions Tour in 2023, it was his first win of any kind since the PGA Tour’s Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial in 2013.
“I really hadn’t even thought about (how long since I had won); you know what I mean? I probably will when I get home later on tonight or whenever I get back home, to sit down and think about it, just kind of go back through play by play and what really happened all this week,” Weekley reflected. “Because you never can soak it all in at one time and just understand what’s really going on with the fans and your family and, you know, just how I actually really played and, you know, how I can improve on how I played.
“It’s (an) awesome feeling again to be a winner again but at the same time thank the Good Lord for giving me the talent to be able to do this.”
With his victory, he jumped 16 spots to third in the Charles Schwab Cup standings.
Weekley largely treaded water in his final round, following an opening par with a birdie on the par-4 second hole before rattling off 12 straight pars. But he finished well, converting a tap-in birdie on the par-4 15th and pouring in a distant birdie at No. 17 to take command.
“This game’s hard enough as it is, and it’s hard to not play a round of golf without making a bogey, you know? And to do it three days in a row at a Champions Tour course, to me that’s a feat,” Weekley said. “It’s just another something I can mark off on my scorecard back at home that I’ve done for myself.”
South Africa’s Ernie Els, who entered the day a stroke back in second place, birdied the final hole to finish 1 under on the day and alone in second at 12 under. However, his pursuit of Weekley was undone by a double-bogey 6 on the 17th hole after he put his second shot in the water.
“On 17, I never had the right club off the tee all week,” Els said. “And I tried to just ease up on the 3-iron, I hit it dead right, and the second shot was pretty bad. So that was the end of my tournament.”
Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke (68) and South Korea’s Charlie Wi (70) landed in a tie for third at 11 under. Stewart Cink and Zach Johnson, the top two players on the Charles Schwab Cup leaderboard, each carded 70 in the final round to finish tied for fifth at 10 under.
Australia’s Rod Pampling posted the best round of the day at 6 under to rally to even-par.
Round 1 leader Ben Crane scored a 79 — tied for the second-worst round Sunday — to fall to a tie for 43rd.
–Field Level Media
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Defender Chris Richards returns to USMNT practice
June 8, 2026; Irvine, California, U.S.; Chris Richards of the U.S. signs an autograph for a fan during training. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images Defender Chris Richards is back on the field with the United States Men’s National Team on Monday and appears to be on track for the World Cup opener against Paraguay this week.
“We will see … first time with the team,” coach Mauricio Pochettino said Monday. “Nearly everyone ready to be selected for the game.”
Richards sustained an ankle injury last month and is viewed as a vital defender in the center of the backline.
Miles Robinson and Mark McKenzie filled in for Richards on Saturday in the final World Cup tuneup against Germany in Chicago.
At Monday’s practice in Irvine, Calif., Tyler Adams was not on the field. He worked in the gym for load management purposes, Pochettino said.
Richards, 26, suffered a pair of torn ligaments in his left ankle on May 17 as his Crystal Palace team played Brentford in a Premier League match. He did complete the match but limped off the field and has not competed since.
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Reports: Kings to hire Peter Laviolette as head coach
Mar 29, 2025; San Jose, California, USA; New York Rangers head coach Peter Laviolette instructs his team as left wings Artemi Panarin (10), Chris Kreider (20) and Brennan Othmann (78) look on against the San Jose Sharks during the third period at SAP Center at San Jose. Mandatory Credit: Robert Edwards-Imagn Images The Los Angeles Kings are set to hire Peter Laviolette to a three-year deal as their next head coach, Sportsnet and ESPN reported Monday.
Laviolette had been in talks to become the head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs as recently as last week, according to multiple reports, and the Edmonton Oilers had also reportedly looked at him as a candidate to fill their head coaching vacancy.
Laviolette, 61, has been an NHL head coach for 23 seasons.
He won a Stanley Cup with the Carolina Hurricanes in 2006. He also reached the Stanley Cup Final as coach of the Philadelphia Flyers in 2010 and the Nashville Predators in 2017.
He most recently coached the New York Rangers from 2023-25. The Rangers went 55-23-4 (114 points) in Laviolette’s first season and advanced to the Eastern Conference finals, where they were eliminated by the Florida Panthers in a six-game series. New York went 39-36-7 (85 points) the following season to finish six points out of a playoff spot, leading to Laviolette’s dismissal in April 2025.
He owns an 846-562-161 record (25 ties) as head coach with the New York Islanders (2001-03), Hurricanes (2003-09), Flyers (2009-14), Predators (2014-20), Washington Capitals (2020-23) and Rangers.
His 846 regular-season wins are the most among United States-born coaches in NHL history and seventh all-time.
Laviolette appeared in 12 NHL games during his playing career as a defenseman, all during the 1988-89 season with the Rangers.
–Field Level Media
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Top 2 seeds ousted in chaotic opening day at Libema Open
Aug 27, 2025; Flushing, NY, USA; Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia serves against Wang Xinyu of China in the second round of the women’s singles at the US Open at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Mandatory Credit: Mike Frey-Imagn Images The No. 1 and No. 2 seeds each fell in straight sets on a chaotic first day of women’s competition in the Libema Open at ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands on Monday.
No. 1 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia — a two-time winner at the event in 2022 and ‘23 — fell 6-4, 7-6 (5) to Hungary’s Panna Udvardy, who ranks nearly 50 spots lower (65th to 17th). In a match that was statistically even in a number of spots, the difference may have been Udvardy’s one more converted break (3 of 6) in an equal number of chances.
Second-seeded Clara Tauson of Denmark lost 6-4, 6-4 to Slovakia’s Mia Pohankova, a 17-year-old who won the final five games of the match to secure her first career top-30 win. No. 3 seed Belgian Elise Mertens avoided the same fate with a thorough 6-1, 6-2 defeat of Canada’s Bianca Andreescu.
In other Monday action, Poland’s Magda Linette rallied for a 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 win over Australian Kimberly Birrell, Robin Montgomery pulled out a 5-7, 6-0, 6-4 victory against Daria Kasatkina of Australia and Ukraine’s Daria Snigur swept Spain’s Paula Badosa 6-1, 7-6 (2).
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Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic rallied for a 6-7 (1), 6-3, 6-3 defeat of McCartney Kessler in first-round action at London.
Pliskova was sloppy on her serve with three aces and 11 double faults but made up for it by winning 51% of her return points and converting 8 of 11 break-point opportunities.
In the only two other matches completed on Monday, when multiple matches were delayed or postponed by rain, Great Britain’s Harriet Dart beat Liudmila Samsonova of Russia 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, while Romania’s Jaqueline Cristian swept Qinwen Zheng 6-4, 7-6 (4).
The final match of the day, which pitted No. 8 seed Leylah Fernandez of Canada against Great Britain’s Katie Boulter, was suspended due to darkness with Fernandez up a set and the second set level at 3 games apiece.
–Field Level Media
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