Rams to host Bills to open NFL season; Raiders at LA Chargers
To the Super Bowl winner goes the spoils of opening the entire schedule at home.
So the Los Angeles Rams will host the Buffalo Bills on Thursday night, Sept. 8, to begin the 2022 season.
The Bengals are home to their division rivals, the Steelers, on Sunday, Sept. 11, when all but two other teams get started. Those two clubs playing on Monday night also offer an enticing storyline: Russell Wilson bringing his Broncos to Seattle. The Seahawks traded their longtime quarterback to Denver in the offseason.
Sunday's prime-time game features Tom Brady and the Buccaneers at Dallas.
Several key division matchups are on tap for Sept. 11: New Orleans at Atlanta, Indianapolis at Houston, New England at Miami, Las Vegas at the Los Angeles Chargers and Green Bay at Minnesota.
Also, it will be Cleveland at Carolina, Philadelphia at Detroit, Baltimore at the New York Jets, Kansas City at Arizona, and the New York Giants at Tennessee.
TOP PICK WALKER SIGNING $37.4M CONTRACT WITH JAGUARS >>
No. 1 overall draft pick Travon Walker and the Jacksonville Jaguars agreed to terms on a fouryear, $37.4 million contract that includes a $24.4 million signing bonus.
Walker's deal is fully guaranteed and includes
a team option for a fifth year, both standard for NFL first-round picks.
Golf
MUNOZ SHOOTS 60 AT BYRON NELSON, RECORD 2ND THIS SEASON >> Sebastian Munoz shot a 12-under 60 in the opening round of the Byron Nelson, following his only bogey with an impressive mid-round surge to become the first player in PGA Tour history with two rounds of 60 or better in the same season.
Munoz was at 2-under par a one-stroke penalty because of a wayward tee shot at the eighth hole. The 29-year-old Colombian, who lives in the Dallas area, then went 6-under in the next four holes. He made eagles at the par 5 No. 9 and No. 12 and sank
3-foot birdies in between. HATAOKA HOLDS EARLY LEAD IN FIRST ROUND OF LPGA FOUNDERS CUP >> Nasa Hataoka shot a bogey-free 7-under-par 65 in perfect playing conditions and grabbed an early onestroke lead in the $3 million Cognizant Founders Cup.
Hataoka ignited her round with a 10-foot eagle putt on No. 2 at Upper Montclair Country Club and added five birdies the rest of the way in posting her fifth straight round in the 60s.
Amy Yang of South Korea and Giulia Molinaro of Italy were tied for second and a shot ahead of Americans Ally Ewing and Ryann O'Toole. Ewing had a wild round that included an eagle on a 63-foot putt on No.
2, six birdies and three bogeys.
Rugby
US TO HOST MEN'S AND WOMEN'S RUGBY WORLD CUPS FOR FIRST TIME >>
Rugby's biggest tournament is finally heading to the United States.
The Rugby World Cup will be staged in the U.S. for the first time after being voted as the host of the men's event in 2031 and the women's tournament two years later.
It marks rugby's first attempt to move into the wider American sporting consciousness and unlock what World Rugby — the global governing body — regards as an area of untapped potential, in both a commercial and sporting sense.