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☆ Shohei Ohtani wins 3rd AP Male Athlete of the Year award, tying Michael Jordan for 1 shy of record
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-23 | by ( Story Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The Japanese superstar caps 2024 by winning The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for the third time, tying him with basketball great Michael Jordan. Maybe next year, I’ll get the award again.”In balloting by 74 sports journalists from the AP and its members, Ohtani received 48 points. He previously won the award in 2023 and 2021, when he was with the Angels. “It wouldn’t shock me if he went 60/60 and 20 wins a year from now,” Brad Ausmus, who managed the Angels in 2019 during Ohtani’s second season in Anaheim, said recently. Ohtani won his first World Series last season.

Persons: Michael Jordan, Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, LeBron James, “ I’m, ” Ohtani, Matt Hidaka, I’ll, ”, Ohtani, “, Babe Didrikson, Swimmer Léon Marchand, Swimmer Léon Marchand of France, Scottie Scheffler, Léon Marchand, Quinn Rooney, Brad Ausmus, there’s, Ronald Martinez, he’s, I’ve, Al Bello, Dave Roberts, Ohtani’s, ” Roberts, Mamiko Tanaka, Ippei Mizuhara, Mizuhara, COY, ker, eyeing Organizations: Los Angeles AP, AP, Angels, “, Paris Olympics, Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers, National League, League Baseball’s, Dodgers, Miami Marlins, Ohtani’s, New York Yankees, Dodger, Nederlandse Locations: Japan, United States, Swimmer Léon Marchand of, Florida, Anaheim, We’ll, South Korea, Ohtani

☆ Tom Kim becomes youngest golfer to win three PGA Tour titles since Tiger Woods
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Almost exactly a year on from easing to a three-shot victory at the same event, it makes Kim the first golfer to defend the Shriners Children’s Open since Jim Furyk in 1999, and the youngest to win three PGA Tour titles since Tiger Woods. Orlando Ramirez/Getty ImagesA meteoric riseSunday’s success moves Kim, who clinched his maiden PGA Tour title at the Wyndham Championship in August 2022, up five places to a career-high world No. “Certainly because I’m 21, I’m not the oldest guy out here, and the kids here are even younger than me. 46 Hadwin had looked on course for a second PGA Tour title before disaster struck at the par-five 16th hole, his approach shot splashing into the water. It’s the best feeling just seeing the amount of kids out there screaming ‘Lexi, Lexi, go Lexi’.

Persons: Tom Kim, Korean phenom, Adam Hadwin, Kim, Jim Furyk, Tiger Woods, Ferrero Rocher, “ I’m, ” Kim, “, ” Kim toasts, Orlando Ramirez, Brian Harman, it’s, Shriners Children’s, I’m, Hadwin, ” Hadwin, “ Tom, Thompson, Lexi Thompson, teed, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, ” Thompson, Lexi, Lexi ’, ” Organizations: CNN, Korean, Shriners, Shriners Children’s, Wyndham Championship Locations: Las Vegas, Vegas, Europe

☆ Lexi Thompson to be seventh woman to compete at PGA Tour event with Shriners Children’s Open exemption
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Lexi Thompson will make history when she tees off at the Shriners Children’s Open next week, becoming just the seventh woman ever to compete in a PGA Tour event. An 11-time winner on the LPGA Tour, the American received an unrestricted sponsor exemption to make the 132-player field competing for a $8.4 million prize purse at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas from October 12. The appearance sees the 28-year-old joins Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Shirley Spork, Annika Sörenstam, Suzey Whaley, Michelle Wie West and Brittany Lincicome as the only women to ever compete at a PGA Tour event. “I was inspired when they did it,” Thompson told the PGA Tour. She has one major title to her name, having won the Kraft Nabisco Championship (now the Chevron Championship) in 2014.

Persons: Lexi Thompson, Didrikson Zaharias, Shirley Spork, Annika Sörenstam, Suzey Whaley, Michelle Wie West, Brittany Lincicome, Michael Owens, Thompson, Lincicome, “, ” Thompson, agonizingly, Stuart Franklin, Kim “ Tom ” Joo Organizations: CNN, Shriners, LPGA, American, Phoenix, Tucson, TPC, PGA, US Solheim, Arkansas, Kraft Nabisco, Chevron, Team USA, Solheim, Getty, Shriners Children’s, Shriners Children, South Locations: Las Vegas, Kentucky, Spain, Europe

LAS VEGAS (AP) — LGPA Tour trailblazer Lexi Thompson will compete against men at the PGA Tour's upcoming event in Las Vegas. The Shriners Children’s Open announced Wednesday that Thompson received an unrestricted exemption into its tournament that begins Oct. 12 at TPC Summerlin. She will compete with 131 men for a $8.4 million purse. Thompson will become the seventh woman to compete in a PGA Tour event and the first since Brittany Lincicome did so at the 2018 Barbasol Championship. Political Cartoons View All 1199 Images“Shriners Children’s mission is to help all children live their best life regardless of what medical challenges lay in front of them,” said Patrick Lindsey, executive director of the Shriners Children’s Open.

Persons: Lexi Thompson, Thompson, Brittany Lincicome, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, “, ” Thompson, ”, Patrick Lindsey, Lexi, ” Thompson hasn’t, She’s, ___ Organizations: LAS VEGAS, PGA, Shriners Children’s, TPC, Shriners, Children’s, LPGA, U.S, Women’s, CME Globe Locations: Las Vegas

☆ The 36 iconic female athletes who have changed the world of women's sports for the better
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Meredith Cash | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Countless female athletes have helped usher women's sports into the mainstream. From Babe Didrikson Zaharias to the Williams sisters, here are 36 iconic athletes who've put women's sports in the spotlight. Recent breakthroughs have helped usher female athletes and their organizations closer to the mainstream than they've ever been. According to a 2018 Nielsen report on the rise of women's sports, 84% of general sports fans now have an interest in women's sports. Below, we take you through the 36 most iconic female athletes that have helped put women's sports in the spotlight.

☆ The 36 most iconic female athletes of the past century
▼ + stars: | 2019-07-12 | by ( Meredith Cash | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

There are plenty of female athletes who have helped usher women's sports into the mainstream. From Babe Didrikson Zaharias to the Williams sisters, here are 36 iconic athletes who've put women's sports in the spotlight. Loading Something is loading. Recent breakthroughs have helped usher female athletes and their organizations closer to the mainstream than they've ever been. Below, we take you through the 36 most iconic female athletes that have helped put women's sports in the spotlight.

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