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Suber among first-round surprises

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SOUTHPORT, England — Jackson Suber got his first taste of links golf — on his first trip to Europe — when he arrived at Royal Birkdale. Three days later, he proved to be a quick study with a superb par save and a 6-foot eagle late in his round for a 5-under 65 to lead the British Open. Bryson DeChambeau might be getting the hang of this, too, no matter what three-time British Open champion Nick Faldo thinks about his strategy. An opening round lasting some 15 hours included just about everything during a warm and breezy start. Five of the leading 12 players were playing the ...

Cy-Hawk football sold out

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IOWA CITY — The Iowa-Iowa State football game scheduled for Sept. 12 at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City is officially sold out, as announced Thursday by the UI Athletics Department. Single-game tickets went on sale to donors on Monday, while general public tickets went on sale Thursday morning. Currently, approximately 1,750 tickets remain for the season opener against Northern Illinois (Sept. 5), 400 tickets for Northern Iowa (Sept. 19), 750 for Ohio State (Oct. 3), 2,500 for Wisconsin on Homecoming weekend (Oct. 31), 5,000 for Purdue (Nov. 14), and 2,500 for Nebraska (Nov. ...

Wildfire smoke impacts national sports

National Sports

PHILADELPHIA — The start time for the MLB game between the New York Mets and the Phillies on Thursday in Philadelphia was moved up an hour due to air quality concerns because of wildfire smoke from Canada and northern Minnesota, and an MLS game in Chicago was postponed. Heavy, pungent wildfire smoke darkened skies in the U.S. from the Great Lakes to parts of the East Coast, reducing visibility and prompting warnings that breathing the air outside could be dangerous. Officials in many cities urged residents to stay inside or wear masks outside as air quality reached unhealthy to ...

LeBron not ready to reveal his decision

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NEW YORK — If LeBron James knows where he will play this coming season, he’s still not saying. The NBA’s career scoring king and current free agent spoke publicly for the first time in weeks Thursday afternoon, indicating that a decision is close — though stopping short of revealing which team he’ll choose to play for this fall, despite at least one cry from someone in a jampacked room shouting for him to “pick a team.” “I won’t hold you guys up too much longer,” James said. The four-time NBA champion had a pair of appearances Thursday: He recorded an episode of ...

Silver says Clark has become ‘political football’

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NEW YORK — Conversations about WNBA officiating and Caitlin Clark have now expanded to include NBA commissioner Adam Silver. Silver said Thursday that Clark has become a “political football” amid debates about officiating and physical play in the WNBA, spurred by a recent play involving ...

Stacks of wax packs summon the joy of baseball card childhoods

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NEW YORK — The anticipation. The chase. The powdery, sugar-coated board of gum! For generations of baseball card fans, there was nothing like scrounging up some change and sprinting to the store to buy a wax pack. Some tore the slightly tacky paper wrapper open and flipped through the cards in an insatiable instant (hence the popular phrase “ripping wax” for opening card packs even today, about 35 years since use of actual wax wrappers ceased). Others did the slow reveal: one card at a time, peeking out of a corner of the pack, or maybe upside down and reversed. However you did ...