Report: ‘Lefty’ piled up $40M in gambling losses
Federal auditors investigating Phil Mickelson’s role in an insider trading scheme found his gambling losses totaled more than $40 million from 2010-14, according to an excerpt from Alan Shipnuck’s forthcoming biography.
Shipnuck posted the excerpt on his “Firepit Collective” site Thursday. His unauthorized biography on Mickelson is to be released May 17 during the PGA Championship. Mickelson is the defending champion. He has not said if he will be playing.
In the most recent excerpt on the $40 million in gambling losses, Shipnuck wrote that government auditors investigated Mickelson’s finances over four years. The author cited a source with direct access to the documents.
Mickelson’s annual income in 2012 — the time of the Dean Foods stock deal that netted Mickelson nearly $1 million in one week — was estimated at about $48 million.
Elsewhere: Matthew Wolff bogeyed the par-5 second hole at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm but was flawless from there, shooting an openinground 65 to share the early lead with Denny McCarthy and two PGA Tour rookies from England, Aaron Rai and Callum Tarren at the Wells Fargo Championship . ... Thorbjorn Olesen shot a 6-under 66 to share the lead with Ryan Fox of New Zealand after the opening round of the British Masters at Sutton Coldfield, England.
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Tennis: Rafael Nadal
saved four match points to secure a three-set win over David Goffin and reach the quarterfinals of the Madrid Open. The third-seeded Nadal will next face Carlos Alcaraz,
who defeated Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3. The fourth-ranked Nadal needed more than three hours to defeat the 60thranked Goffin 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (9) in only his second match after a six-week layoff because of a rib stress fracture . ... Novak Djokovic automatically advanced to the quarterfinals after Andy Murray
withdrew because of a stomach illness, and will face 12th-seeded Hubert Hurkacz, who defeated qualifier Dusan Lajovic
7-5, 6-3.
Soccer: Jose Mourinho directed Roma to a 1-0 win (2-1 on aggregate) over Leicester and a spot in the Europa Conference League final. Tammy Abraham
scored the only goal. It will mark the fifth European final of Mourinho’s career — and he has won all four that he’s coached in so far. ... Eintracht Frankfurt reached its first European final in 42 years by knocking West Ham out of the Europa League, setting up a title game against Scottish club Rangers. Frankfurt beat 10-man West Ham
1-0 at home to complete a 3-1 aggregate victory in the semifinals, while Rangers overturned a 1-0 deficit from the first leg by defeating RB Leipzig 3-1 at a raucous Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow. It is Frankfurt’s first European final since beating Borussia Monchengladbach in 1980 in an all-German matchup in the UEFA Cup, the predecessor to the Europa League.