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GALLOWAY, N.J. | Sometimes the game gives you great winners and sometimes you get memorable finishes. In the 2021 ShopRite LPGA Classic presented by A...

Close racing during the Jimmy Starling Trophy at Burnham Sailing Club © Alan Hanna This weekend was the Jimmy Starling from the Burnham Sailing Club. 17 Squibs entered and enjoyed six races over two days. The Jimmy Starling is raced for annually in memory of a young Tucker Brown apprentice shipwright who drowned whilst racing in Burnham Week 1957. As always, the Burnham fleet enjoyed close competitive racing, with the wins being spread out, and every place being hard fought for. In...

Every so often, usually when Erie County is trying to find money for the library system, somebody suggests selling Childe Hassam’s painting, “Summer Afternoon, Isle of Shoals.” It’s a magnificent painting by the man who is widely considered the father of American Impressionism. I recall a prominent local businessman suggesting that the county hire a painter to duplicate “Summer Afternoon,” and then sell the original, which in 2018 was thought to be worth more than $2 million. During...

2007 U.S. Women’s Open champion to make her 24th consecutive championship start LIBERTY CORNER, N.J. (May 10, 2021) – The United States Golf Association (USGA) has announced that 2007 U.S. Women’s Open champion Cristie Kerr has accepted a special exemption into the 76th U.S. Women’s Open Championship, which will be conducted June 3–6 at The Olympic Club (Lake Course) in San Francisco, Calif. Kerr, 43, captured the 2007 U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Souther...

The United States Golf Association today announced that Newport Country Club will host the 44th U.S. Senior Open Championship. The historic venue was originally scheduled to be the host site of the 2020 championship, but it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be the fifth USGA championship to be held at Newport Country Club, which hosted the inaugural U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur championships in 1895. The dates of the U.S. Senior Open are June 27-30, 2024. “Newport Country Clu...

Almanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature invites you to not just peruse a list, but to take a trip back in time to see how a significant event originally was reported in the Chicago Tribune.

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Feb. 17, the 48th day of 2021. There are 317 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb.

Print Sixty years ago, the San Diego Hall of Champions and San Diego Hall of Fame opened in the old House of Charm building next to the Alcazar Gardens in Balboa Park. After relocating twice, the San Diego sports museum closed its doors in Balboa Park in 2017. Much of the memorabilia it housed was returned to donors or auctioned off. The Hall of Fame founded by San Diego sports icon Bob Breitbard found a new home at Petco Park. From The San Diego Union, Wednesday, January 11, 1961: Hall Of Ch...

Champion surfing siblings have spoken about their heroic efforts after a dramatic video of them saving a drowning woman in Hawaii last week shocked the world.   Australian athletes Tyler, 27, and Mikey Wright, 24, made a joint rescue of a female beachgoer who was swept out into the rocky reefs at Ke Iki Beach in Hawaii on New Years Eve. The dramatic moment Mikey ran into rough surf to rescue a woman being dragged out into sea was shared widely online, with viewers calling the sibling rescue...

The dramatic moment two Australian pro surfing siblings ran into rough surf to rescue a woman being dragged out into sea has been caught on camera. Australian surf star siblings Tyler, 27, and Mikey Wright, 24, made a joint rescue of a fellow beachgoer who was swept out into the rocky reefs at Ke Iki Beach in Hawaii on New Years Eve. In a dramatic video posted online, Mikey can be heard saying they need to be saved as he ran onto the beach and dived head first into the rough waters. Mickey Wrig...