STERLING, Va. — There are jobs, and then there are challenges. Scott O’Neil joined LIV Golf as its new CEO last year, and saw the job turn into a challenge last month. That’s when Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the near-trillion-dollar fund backing LIV, revealed that it would be ending its funding of LIV Golf, effective at the end of this season. O’Neil has spent the weeks since rallying potential investors, looking to chart a new path for the onetime-breakaway golf league.On Thursday afternoon, O’Neil sat down with Yahoo Sports in Club 54, LIV’s 18th-green executive hospitality suite, to talk…

RFK Racing has announced plans to appeal the penalties NASCAR issued against Ryan Preece this week.The driver of the No. 60 Ford Mustang was involved in an incident with Texas Motor Speedway where he spun Ty Gibbs into the outside wall. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver suffered significant damage.AdvertisementRadio chatter from before the incident seemed to indicate that he intended to turn the driver of the No. 54 Toyota, saying: “All right, when I get to that 54, I’m done with him,” Preece said after a tense battle with Gibbs.After a review, NASCAR docked Preece 25 points and fined him…

Aston Villa entertained Nottingham Forest at Villa Park earlier tonight as they hoped to overturn a 1-0 first-leg deficit in the UEFA Europa League. The Villans made a quick start to the game and got their noses ahead in the 36th minute when Ollie Watkins found the back of the net. Unai Emery’s men went into the half-time break 1-0 up on the scoreline.Emi Buendia doubled his team’s lead in the 58th minute from the penalty spot. John McGinn scored a quick-fire brace in the final quarter of the game as the Villans secured a dominant 4-0 win (4-1 on…

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The United States will enter this year’s men’s hockey world championships in an unusual position: defending champion.Team USA won a gold medal at the International Ice Hockey Federation tournament last spring for the first time since 1933.AdvertisementThis year’s team has only two returnees and will be less star-studded than the 2025 one The big exception is Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk, a two-time Stanley Cup winner and U.S. Olympian.Some of the players from last year aren’t available because they were or are in the playoffs, such as Tage Thompson, Clayton Keller, Jackson Lacombe, Cutter Gauthier and Jeremy Swayman. Plus, there’s…

As ESPN continues to vacuum up golf broadcast rights, it is taking over a portion of the PGA Championship telecast that is typically reserved for CBS.The Worldwide Leader airs eight hours of tournament coverage on Thursday and Friday, which will be played this year at Aronimink Golf Club outside Philadelphia. Typically, during the six years that ESPN has held rights to the PGA Championship, CBS announcers Jim Nantz and Trevor Immelman have cut in for two hours each day on the call.AdvertisementAccording to a report from Josh Carpenter at Sports Business Journal, that will change this year, as ESPN will take…

Villa Park has been rocking as the Villans close in on a Europa League comeback victory over Nottingham ForestUnai Emery’s team levelled the tie through Ollie Watkins’ simple first half tap-in, set up by Emi Buendia’s dangerous cross.AdvertisementVilla then took the lead for the first time on aggregate just before the hour mark, with Buendia stepping up and firing in from the penalty spot.Not only has that conversion given Villa a big shot at making the 2025/26 Europa League final, but it means Buendia becomes the first player of an English club since 2021 to score and assist in the…

Rivian is considering other R2 variants.   The CEO said ‘there could be an R2X,’ but that he didn’t want to give away too many details. R2 deliveries begin soon. Rivian hasn’t even started delivering the R2, yet CEO RJ Scaringe is already thinking about what comes next. The automaker is already considering other R2 variants, like a performance-oriented R2X and a pickup.   In an interview with Reuters, Scaringe revealed that there are other variants of the R2 that the company hasn’t yet announced. He did not provide any specifics, but said, “Clearly, there could be an R2X. There…