(The Sports XChange) – Center DeAndre Jordan’s double-double led the Los Angeles Clippers to the brink of a first Western Conference final with a 128-95 win over the Houston Rockets at the Staples Center on Sunday. With 26 points and 17 rebounds, Jordan was one of six Los Angeles players in double figures as the Clippers took a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series ahead of Game Five at the
May 11 (Infostrada Sports) – FedEx Cup rankings 1. (1) Jordan Spieth (U.S.) 2118 2. (2) Jimmy Walker (U.S.) 1693 3. (3) J.B. Holmes (U.S.) 1320 4. (4) Patrick Reed (U.S.) 1263 5. (6) Bubba Watson (U.S.) 1188 6. (5) Dustin Johnson (U.S.) 1180 7. (7) Charley Hoffman (U.S.) 1121 8. (8) Jason Day (Australia) 1076 9. (9) Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) 1059 10. (67) Rickie Fowler (U.S.) 1048 11. (14)
By Ben Everill PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida (Reuters) – American Rickie Fowler produced a stunning finish to claim the lucrative Players Championship in a playoff at TPC Sawgrass on Sunday. In a week where he was labeled “overrated” in an anonymous player poll, Fowler clinched victory on the famous 17th island green with his third birdie on the hole in the day, taking home $1.8 million.
– A former timber plantation in a sleepy southern town will be put back to work building new Volvos. In the first Swedish-Chinese-South Carolinian collaboration of its kind, Volvo is scheduled to break ground on a $500-million factory this fall. – Since late March, when Volvo announced it would construct an American plant with capacity for 100,000 cars a year—nearly double what it sold here in 2014—the automaker turned down a proposal
– Like a friend who keeps inadvertently blowing up your phone with Facebook invitations to play Candy Jam or Cookie Crush Saga or whatever, we’ve been able to set our clocks to Chevrolet’s slow stream of 2016 Camaro information. Every few days, like a notification from Friend to Unfriend Immediately, Chevy has slipped out some new tidbit or detail about its yet-to-be-revealed sixth-generation pony car. The latest? A look at the car’s
By William Maclean and Angus McDowall DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) – The Saudi king’s absence from a regional summit to be hosted by President Barack Obama shows how Gulf states, displeased by what they see as U.S. indifference to Iranian meddling in the Arab world, may hesitate to bless any nuclear deal with Tehran. Analysts and diplomats in the Middle East described King Salman’s decision to skip the meeting at Camp David
By Ju-min Park and James Pearson SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea made a key step in its nuclear weapons program by test-launching a ballistic missile from a submarine, but remains years away from developing a missile system or submarine which could threaten its sworn enemy the United States, experts said. South Korea on Monday called the test “very serious and concerning” and urged Pyongyang to immediately stop developing submarine-launched ballistic
A Moroccan F-16 warplane that is part of the Saudi-led force carrying out air strikes in Yemen has gone missing, Morocco’s military said on Monday, and Iran-allied Houthi rebels and Saudi forces traded heavy fire across the border. The disappearance of the Moroccan jet and the intense artillery and rocket battles could imperil an agreed five-day humanitarian truce in Yemen’s civil war due to begin on Tuesday. Backed by Washington,
In an interview with Yahoo, President Obama defended what would be a historic trade pact with 11 Asian countries against criticism from Senator Warren and other members of his own party, who say the deal could hurt labor and environmental interests.
Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rested their case Monday to save him from the death penalty, portraying him as an impressionable teenager from a troubled family who was lured into the deadly plot by his radicalized older brother.
