PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland -- R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers defended the sizable gap between purses for the Open Championship and the Women's British Open, even as reporters peppered him with questions about the disparity during a news conference on Wednesday.The purse for the 148th Open Championship at Royal Portrush Golf Club this week is $10.75 million, with the Champion Golfer…

LAS VEGAS -- Hossein Ensan defeated Dario Sammartino heads-up to clinch the 2019 World Series of Poker main event title and the $10 million first-place prize.Ensan, 55, started each of the three days of the final table well ahead of everyone else, and despite ceding that lead to Sammartino early in their heads-up battle, Ensan fought his way back into…

A dozen or so kids line up to catch a pass from Baker Mayfield, and one of them is so gut-wrenchingly adorable, I briefly wonder if he's a plant. It's an absurd thought, but the whole scenario carries a whiff of predetermined charm. The visual of Mayfield playing football with hundreds of children at his camp in Norman, Oklahoma, is…

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Weeks after both Terry Bradshaw and Baker Mayfield took verbal jabs at his starting quarterback, Texas Longhorns coach Tom Herman said Tuesday that he noticed, and his players "file things away."Speaking at Big 12 media days, Herman called outside criticism of Sam Ehlinger "irrelevant," but he intimated that it could fuel the junior quarterback's fire."I heard it,"…