Winning major hasn’t made life easier for Morikawa on PGA Tour
Winning the PGA Championship in August has been the highlight of Collin Morikawa’s short career but the American said being a major winner does not automatically make things easier on the PGA Tour.
The 23- year- old, who turned pro last year after a stellar four-year college career at Cal, triumphed at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco for his first major title but failed to make the cut at the U.S. Open and Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in his first two starts in the 2020-21 season.
“I’ve realized over the last couple of weeks ... that this is without question a new PGA Tour season,” Morikawa wrote in a PGA Tour blog.
“I can use all those positives that came from my breakthrough victory at the PGA Championship, but that doesn’t necessarily mean things are automatically going to come my way now.”
NBA
PLAYERS SCHEDULING VOTES ON NEXT SEASON PLAN >>
A person with knowledge of the situation says the NBA’s players are planning to vote on whether they would prefer to start the coming season in December or wait until January, with that decision expected before the league’s board of governors meets to potentially formalize some plans on Friday.
The vote by members of the National Basketball Players Association will show how many prefer a 72-game season that starts on Dec. 22, or a season of perhaps 58 or 60 games that would start on Martin Luther King Day on Jan. 18, said the person who spoke Tuesday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the plan has not been publicly announced.
Among the issues: revenue. The NBA believes starting on Dec. 22 would allow for $500 million in additional revenue for the coming season, and the league’s primary television partners also want that start date in part to allow for the traditional Christmas broadcasts. Some players, however, have said starting in December is too soon for teams like the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat, who were in the Walt Disney World bubble until mid- October for the NBA Finals.
TROUBLED TWO-TIME ALLSTAR JOHNSON DIES AT 65 >> Eddie Johnson, a former two-time All- Star with the Atlanta Hawks, has died. He was 65.
Johnson was serving a life a sentence in Florida for sexual assault of an 8-yearold girl. The prison hasn’t disclosed the cause of death but Rocker- Cusack Mortuary in Leesburg, Florida, posted a listing Tuesday that says Johnson died on Oct. 26.
Johnson was known as “Fast Eddie” during a 10-year-playing career that ended in 1987 when he received a lifetime ban from the NBA due to cocaine use.
Basketball
BARKLEY DONATES $1M TO ANOTHER HBCU CAMPUS >> Basketball legend Charles Barkley has pledged $1 million to Tuskegee University in Alabama, AL.com reported. It is his fifth promise of that amount to a historically black college, following pledges in the past five years to Alabama A&M, Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College in Georgia and Miles College in Alabama.
DA RSCH , FORME R OHIO STATE AND WNBA COACH, DIES >> Nancy Darsch, who guided the Ohio State women’s basketball team to the 1993 title game and went on to coach in the WNBA, has died. She was 68.
She had Parkinson’s disease and died Monday in her hometown of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Darsch started her college coaching
career as an assistant at Tennessee under the great Pat Summitt. Darsch led the Buckeyes for 12 years, from 1985 to 1997, compiling a 234-125 record and making seven appearances in the NCAA Tournament.
Ohio State went 28- 4 in during the 1992-93 season and lost to Texas Tech 8482 in the NCAA championship game.
She as an assistant coach for USA Basketball, helping the women’s team earn its first gold medal in 1984. She returned as an assistant for the 1996 team that won gold in Atlanta.
Soccer
REYNA AMONG 10 PLAYERS WHO COULD MAKE U. S. DEBUTS AT WALES >>
Gio Reyna could make his U. S. debut next week on the eve of his 18th birthday.
The Borussia Dortmund midfielder, a son of former U.S. captain Claudio Reyna, is among 10 players on the youthful 24-man American roster who could debut in an exhibition against Wales at Swansea on Nov. 12. The Americans also play Panama four days later at Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
Reyna could become the 12th player under 18 to make his U.S. debut. The match at Wales will be just the second in the pandemic- disrupted year for the Americans, who beat Costa Rica 1- 0 on Feb. 1 with a roster of players mostly from Major League Soccer.
He could team in a newlook midfield with 22-yearold Christian Pulisic, in his second season at Chelsea; 22-year- old Weston McKennie, in his first season at Juventus; and 21-year- old Tyler Adams, in his second full season at Leipzig. AFTER SURPRISE START, TADIC STARS FOR AJAX >> Dusan Tadic scored one goal and set up another to lead Ajax to a 2-1 win over FC Midtjylland in the Champions League, a day after being seemingly ruled out of the game by his coach after a positive test for the coronavirus.
Tadic was one of a raft of senior players — including goalkeeper André Onana and midfielders Davy Klaassen and Ryan Gravenberch — not included in a reduced 17-man group that traveled to Herning, Denmark, on Monday because of the positive tests. They did travel in a separate party that evening, though, and were allowed to play after supplying a negative test ahead of the match.
NHL
RED WINGS RE- SIGN MANTHA TO FOUR-YEAR DEAL >> The Detroit Red Wings resigned forward Anthony Mantha to a four-year contract. The Red Wings didn’t announce financial terms but multiple reports peg the deal as being worth $22.8 million.
Mantha recorded 16 goals and 22 assists (38 points) in 43 games last season.
The 26-year- old scored a career-best 25 goals in 201819. He has 84 goals and 89 assists (173 points) in 260 NHL games over four-plus seasons with Detroit.
Mantha was a first-round pick (20th overall) by Detroit in the 2013 draft.
Cycling
ROGLIC WINS VUELTA TIME TRIAL TO RETAKE OVERALL LEAD >> Defending champion Primoz Roglic won the individual time trial at the Spanish Vuelta to retake the overall lead from Richard Carapaz. Roglic finished the 20.9-mile 13th stage in 46 minutes, 39 seconds, crossing the line one second ahead of American rival William Barta in Dumbría, Spain.
Carapaz finished seventh, 49 seconds off the pace. He fell 39 seconds behind Roglic in the overall standings.
Today, riders face a 126mile 14th stage through the hilly Galician terrain.
Tennis
HUMBERT OUSTS SECONDSEEDED TSITSIPAS AT PARIS MASTERS >> Ugo Humbert upset second- seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas following a hard-fought contest of more than three hours to reach the third round at the Paris Masters.
The 34th-ranked Frenchman won 7- 6 (4), 6-7 (6), 7- 6 (3) for one of the biggest wins of his young career. Humbert was outside the top 700 three years ago and only started playing regularly on the main Tour last season.
Earlier, three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka advanced to the second round by defeating Daniel Evans 6- 3, 7- 6 (3). The 12th- seeded Wawrinka, a former No. 3, hit 35 winners to extend his record to 5- 0 against his British rival.
The event is the final Masters tournament of the season. It is being held without fans.