College student Dunlap wins at PGA West but is ineligible for $1.5m first prize

20-year-old is first amateur winner on PGA Tour since 1991Status means first-place prize money has to be forfeited Nick Dunlap became the first amateur in 33 years to win on the PGA Tour, holding on for a one-shot victory over Christiaan Bezuidenhout at The American Express on Sunday. Dunlap, the 20-year-old University of Alabama student … Read more

Tara VanDerveer sets college basketball record with 1,203rd coaching win

70-year-old first became a head coach when she was 24Record set as Stanford defeat Oregon State 65-56 Tara VanDerveer became the all-time winningest coach in college basketball history on Sunday, passing former Duke and Army coach Mike Krzyzewski with her 1,203rd career victory when Stanford beat Oregon State 65-56. At the age of 70, and … Read more

Ron DeSantis suspends his 2024 presidential campaign

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he has suspended his campaign for president. The decision comes just days after he committed to staying in the race through the South Carolina primary. NBC News’ Dasha Burns and Vaughn Hillyard have the latest.

‘Burn, beetle, burn’: South Dakotans torch an effigy of destructive bug

Hundreds of people set fire to a giant wooden beetle in the annual festival to raise awareness of the harmful pine beetle In what’s become an annual winter tradition: hundreds of people carrying torches set fire to a giant wooden beetle effigy in Custer, South Dakota, to raise awareness of the destructive impact of the … Read more

Ron DeSantis put nearly all his eggs in the basket of a ‘war on woke’

The Florida governor, once billed as Trump without the baggage, ended up making a series of bad gambles It began in a glitch-filled disaster on Twitter. It ended with a misattributed quotation on X. Just like Elon Musk’s social media platform, efforts to rebrand Ron DeSantis’s US presidential election campaign could not mask its fundamental … Read more

Lions beat Buccaneers to reach first NFC championship game in 32 years

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 23-31 Detroit LionsLions will face 49ers for place in Super Bowl LVIII Jared Goff threw two touchdown passes and the Detroit Lions beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31-23 in their divisional playoff game on Sunday, lifting the long-suffering franchise into the NFC championship for the first time in 32 years and just … Read more