The Northern Irishman is competing in the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Tennessee this week and will play in the United States PGA Championship next week and the United States Open in September. But, when asked about the possibility of returning to Europe for golf tournaments, McIlroy cast doubt, saying …
Read More »Sleeping microbes wake up after 100 million years buried under the seabed.
Microbes were found buried in the earth 101.5 million years ago, even before Tyrannosaurus rex when Earth’s largest carnivorous dinosaur, called Spinosaurus, roamed the planet. Time passed, continents changed, oceans rose and fell, great apes emerged, and eventually humans evolved with curiosity and the skills to unearth those ancient cells. …
Read More »Injury update on 2 notable Phillies: Seranthony Dominguez and Mickey Moniak
Major League Baseball increased testing in the Phillies in the wake of the Miami Marlins’ COVID-19 outbreak and so far so good. Not only did the Phillies players test positive this week, but neither did the Phillies players test positive “from our admission selection process at the start of our …
Read More »Rob Manfred is now the worst commissioner in all of sports.
This is the online version of our daily newsletter, The Morning Win. Subscribe to get irreverent and incisive sports stories, delivered to your mailbox every morning. You may have noticed in the last six months that I’m not a huge fan of Rob Manfred. However, I have not been alone …
Read More »Congress made CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google sweat during the hearing
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook testified before Congress about how they use their market power to destroy their competitors. Unlike other tech hearings, this one had minimal exaggeration and politicians came prepared. The tech titans didn’t seem ready …
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