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☆ TaylorMade appears to be giving Tiger Woods the one thing Nike never did — and it's ended one of the most lucrative sports-endorsement deals in history
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Cork Gaines | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

On Tuesday, Tiger Woods and golf equipment and apparel maker TaylorMade announced an expanded partnership with a new golf accessory line called "Sun Day Red." TaylorMade CEO David Abeles even suggested during the press conference that this is Woods' company and they are just there for support. Tiger Woods is seen in apparel featuring the Sun Day Red logo. Tiger Woods' new Sun Day Red logo. Business Insider reached out to TaylorMade, Nike, and representatives for Woods.

Persons: —, Tiger Woods, TaylorMade, Woods, Forbes, Josh Gerben, Gerben, Tiger, Tyrone Walker, David Rumsey, David Abeles, Abeles, Ben Jared, Jon Rahm, Michael Jordan, Serena Willams, LeBron James, Rory McIlroy, Jamie Squire, Keyur Khamar, Djansezian Organizations: Service, PGA, Nike, Business, Hunt & Hunt Lawyers, Sun, Ventures, TaylorMade Lifestyle Ventures, Taylor, Inc, Front, Callaway, Gatorade, Woods Locations: Los Angeles, TaylorMade, Australia, San Clemente , California, Carlsbad, Woods

☆ Sports investing has taken off, but the biggest prize in the industry remains almost untouchable
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. 3 things in marketsJim Esposito, Goldman Sachs' head of global markets and banking, is set to retire from the bank, the firm said Monday. Jim Esposito is leaving Goldman Sachs after nearly 30 years. While he didn't share his next move, he told peers he'd "bleed Goldman Sachs forever." Goldman Sachs says rate cuts need to be on the menu in March.

Persons: —, Brooks Koepka, Rory McIlroy, Keyur Khamar, Marc Lasry, Steve Cohen, Aaron Mok, LeBron James, — Arthur Blank, Gerry Cardinale, Goldman Sachs, who's, Lasry, Cohen, Point72, it's, Patrick Smith, Peacock, David Tepper, Jim Esposito, We've, he'd, Jean Boivin, David Mericle, NurPhoto, Getty, Javier Zayas, Kevin Winter, Tyler Le, Critics, Dan DeFrancesco, Hallam Bullock, Jordan Parker Erb Organizations: Service, Costco, Getty, PGA Tour, Fenway Sports Group, NFL's Atlanta Falcons, Capital Group, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets, NFL, Denver Broncos, Washington, Washington Post, Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, Carolina Panthers, BlackRock, Spotify, Apple, Google, Entertainment, Netflix, Studios, HBO, Disney, Walmart, Microsoft, Business Locations: Vegas, BlackRock, New York, London

☆ An Epic Pilgrimage Across Three Great Religions
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Aatish Taseer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +111 min

Before there was tourism, there was pilgrimage: a trip of endurance, hardship and ecstasy in celebration of one’s faith. On an epic pilgrimage of his own, one writer ventures into the heart of three great religions in Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq. The Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala the day after Ashura. “They’re poor, but they come thousands of kilometers for the love of Imam Hussein.” PILGRIMAGE WAS A great equalizer. “Labaik ya Hussein,” came the solemn chorus of surrounding voices.

Persons: Eduardo Quintela Gonzáles, ” Quintela, JAN, “, ”, Quintela, Victor, Edith Turner, Chaucer, ferne, sondry londes, Vaishno Devi, Lyra Skinner, Lyra, Victoria Preston’s, —, Prophet Muhammad, Virgin Mary, Bath, Naipaul, Augustus, Ryan, garret, Virgin, Monica Machicao, Nicholas Casey, ” Monica, Casey, Evo Morales, sloughing, Columbus, Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Monica, glitzy cholets, Peru —, Viracocha, it’s, Pablo Quisbert, Leandro Chitarroni, Eichmann, Father Chitarroni, Father Chitarroni’s, Conquistadores ”, Fernando Cervantes, Bernabé Cobo, Quisbert, Edgar Quispe, Tatiana Huayhua, Francisco Tito Yupanqui, Mary, Yupanqui’s, su, Yupanqui, Chitarroni, she’s, Friar Abelino Yeguaori, Friar Yeguaori, Friar Yeguaori’s, Irene, Juana, hajji, Waka, Aracely Alcón, Santiago, Alcón, ‘, don’t, ” Alcón, Tito Yupanqui, Uma Marka, Pachamama, haggard, Amaru Fiorilo Barrios, he’d, ” Fiorilo, Fiorilo, who’d, Valeria Alcón, Laureano Jose Quisbert, Elena Ticona Flores, Eduardo Quintela’s, Ensamble, pang, padre, consolations, Sincrético, El, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, Axel, amauta, strode, La, Aatish Taseer, Saint Helena —, Constantine I, La Paz, Orgilbaatar Tsolmon, Orgil, Genghis Khan, Edward Gibbon, ” Orgil, Araniko’s, Kublai Khan, Genghis Khan’s, Kubla Khan, Coleridge, Kublai, Stalin, sybarite, Khamar, Dalai Lama, Lama, Christopher Kaplonski, ger, I’d, banshtai tsai, Prim, Egi, Munkhdul, Gandantegchinlen, Haidav, herder, “ Um sain, boltugai, Danzanravjaa, Zanabazar’s, Erdene, Mandakhtsog Monkhbaatar, Monkhbaatar’s, Dalai Lamas, prostrated, He’d, Zuu, she’d, Santiago de, L.K, Advani, Emperor Babur, Ram, kar sevaks, Ayodhya, Narendra Modi, Munkhbaatar Batchuluun, Henry Wallace, Franklin D, Potemkin, Munkhbaatar, Gerelmaa, Giimaa, She’d, Eduardo Quintela, Aracely, Santiago’s, Joseph Brodsky’s, Muhammad’s, Hussein, William Keo, ” Khuder, pillion, Labaik, Hussein ”, O Hussein, hearkened, Prophet, Ali —, Ali, Yazid, Imam, crackling, chickpeas, Imam Ali, Imam Hussein, Saddam Hussein, Tusi, Qasim, Imam Hussein’s, Khuder, “ Will, Najaf, prestes, — I, Yasir Yaseen, Ashura, Ali Akbar, Abbas, Ali Asghar, “ We’re, Francisco Goya’s, Hussein’s, Groom, Joseph, ” Wissam, Turfi, Saddam —, Arbaeen, Saddam, “ Imam Hussein, WE, Muhammad, Barnaby Rogerson, Prophet Muhammad ”, ” Ali, Muhammad — Muhammad, formlessness, Muqtada al, Abrams, chiding, Abu Musab Al, Zarqawi, Al Qaeda, William, “ They’re, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, flagellants, ruddy, stylishly, Hussein — shahid —, Farman Ahsan, Syed Salman Raza —, Saddam’s, ” Raza, William “, Ali Zayn al, Abidin, Labaik ya Hussein, thrall —, Lloyd, Susanne Rudolph — Organizations: CITY LA, LA, LA PAZ, Virgin, Crusaders, Dolorosa, Sun, The New York Times, Bolivian, Spain, La, Cordillera, Universidad Mayor de, Catholic, Good, La Paz, Dominican, Pakistan, Caesars, Nissan, Coke, Communists, Communism, ardor, Communist, Hyundai, flails, sacra, Apache, Mahdi Army, Al, ISIS, Karachi —, Princeton Locations: Bolivia, Mongolia, Iraq, Aatish Taseer Bolivia Mongolia Iraq, CITY LA PAZ, BOLIVIA, NAJAF, IRAQ, ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA, LA PAZ, La Paz, Bolivian, Copacabana, Lake Titicaca, New York, Christian, British, sondry, India, Delhi, Varanasi, Europe, American, Mecca, Arabia, Long, Vino Tinto, Chile, Peru, Monica, Plurinational State, Bolivia —, Americas, Spain, Columbian, Aztec Mexico, Inca Peru, Calvary Hill, Virgen del Cerro, South America, Puerto Rico, Huatajata, ”, Argentine, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Mexican, revelry, Spanish, “, morena, La, “ India, multilayered, Potosí, Argentina, Warisata, Scotch, Santiago de Compostela, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Nations, El Alto, Buenos Aires, Bombay, Tibet, Bolivia’s, Yamuna Rivers, United States, Buddhist Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolian, Istanbul, Asia, Islam, China, Beijing, Dadu, Erdene Zuu, Soviet, Gobi, Los Angeles, gers, Qing China, Karnataka, Töv Province, Karakorum, Khamar, Erdene, Ukraine, Korea, Golden, Bayankhongor, Lhasa, Dalai, Inner Mongolia, Mongol, Nalaikh, Santiago, Santiago de Compostela and Canterbury, Bulgan Province, Somnath, Gujarat, Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, ger, East German, Uvs Province, Pakistani, Indian, Tennessee, Najaf, Baghdad, Khuder, —, abayas, KARBALA, Kufa, Medina, Saudi Arabia, Karbala, Imam Ali, Bab, Kuwaiti, Bohras, South Asia, Tajikistan, Zaydis, Yemen, Alawites, Anatolia, Syria, Iran, Bahrain, Azerbaijan, Sadr, U.S, Jordanian, Al Qaeda, Mesopotamia, Al, Multan, Pakistan, Punjab, Pakistan’s, Islamabad, Lahore, Kuwait, Karachi, Doha, Qatar

☆ Brooks Koepka accuses Jon Rahm of acting ‘like a child’ during Ryder Cup miracle fightback
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Jon Rahm became the darling of Europe with a remarkable performance at the Ryder Cup on Friday, but not everyone was impressed. 1 Scottie Scheffler and Brooks Koepka, his earlier foursomes point further helping Europe surge into a five point lead at Marco Simone Golf Club. “So yeah, I mean, I want to hit a board and pout just like Jon Rahm did. 1 against a pair with no major crowns and in Aberg, a 23-year-old Ryder Cup debutant who turned pro less than 100 days ago. “We make a strong team,” Hovland said.

Persons: Jon Rahm, eagled, Nicolai Højgaard, Scottie Scheffler, Brooks Koepka, Marco Simone Golf, Rahm, Scheffler’s, “, Scottie birdied, ‘, ” Koepka, ” Rahm, Patrick Smith, Luke Donald, ” Donald, “ Jon, Nicolai, ”, Zach Johnson, “ I’m, Brooks, ” Johnson, Justin Rose, Keyur Khamar, Scheffler, Viktor Hovland, Ludvig Aberg, Norway’s Hovland, Aberg, ” Hovland, could’ve Organizations: CNN, Ryder, Marco Simone Golf Club, USA, Sky Sports, Getty, Europe Locations: Europe, Aberg

☆ Lucas Glover: How a former Navy SEAL helped golfer overcome 10 years of yips and become the sport’s most in-form player
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Jack Bantock | Don Riddell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

In 2009, Glover was crowned US Open champion and became the world’s 15th best-ranked golfer. It was time to call in help, and that support arrived in the shape of former Navy SEAL Jason Kuhn. Keyur Khamar/PGA TOUR/Getty ImagesHaving first met with Kuhn in May, Glover began to work with the ex-Navy SEAL shortly after. Glover has a perfect record at the Presidents Cup, triumphing in 2007 and 2009, with Johnson his teammate at both tournaments. The Presidents Cup is a biennial competition between Americans and an international team open to players outside the United States and Europe.

Persons: Lucas Glover, Scotsman Tommy Armour, Ernie Els, Danielle Kang, Bernhard Langer, Glover, ” Glover, CNN Sport’s Don Riddell, “, Mike Segar, Jason Kuhn, Kuhn, Tyler Matzek, Keyur Khamar, –, It’s, he’s, that’d, ”, …, ” Ryder, – Zach Johnson, Ryder, Johnson, I’ve, – I’ve, Robert Galbraith, Reuters Scottie Scheffler, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay, Brian Harman, Brooks Koepka, Max Homa – Organizations: CNN, Scotsman, Bethpage, Reuters, NCAA Division, Major League Baseball, NCAA, MLB, Navy, Atlanta Braves, ex, Wyndham Championship, FedEx St, Jude, BMW, US Ryder, Rome, US Team, Harding, Golf Club, PGA of America, Team USA, triumphing Locations: Georgia, New York, Illinois, San Francisco , California, Italy, Frisco , Texas, United States, Europe

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