Andrew Kerth 
Erling Haaland is playing this World Cup on the longest contract in Premier League history: a nine-and-a-half-year Manchester City deal signed in January 2025 that runs to June 2034, pays a reported £525,000 per week in base wages, and can swell toward £875,000 a week once his near-automatic goal bonuses kick in. Forbes ranks him … Read more
Erling Haaland has scored more than 350 senior goals for club and country, and he doesn’t turn 26 until the week of the World Cup final. The Manchester City striker is currently authoring the loudest chapter yet: seven goals at his first World Cup, tied with Messi and Mbappé for the Golden Boot lead, including … Read more
Jannik Sinner owns four Grand Slam titles, all won inside a two-year burst that made him world No. 1, the first Italian man ever to hold either distinction, and tomorrow he defends the most famous of them in a Wimbledon semifinal against the one opponent whose records dwarf everyone’s: Novak Djokovic, whom Sinner leads 6-5 … Read more
The run fits the career: two major titles (the 2023 US Open and 2025 French Open), double-digit tour titles including the WTA Finals, a former doubles No. 1 ranking, and a résumé that has been rewriting “youngest since” lists since she beat Venus Williams at this same tournament as a 15-year-old qualifier. The chart below … Read more
The 2026 Genesis Scottish Open is underway at The Renaissance Club (July 9-12), and the field is the strongest non-major gathering of the summer: world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, No. 2 Rory McIlroy, No. 4 Matt Fitzpatrick, LIV stars Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton via the co-sanction, and a defending champion, Chris Gotterup, who arrives … Read more
Every July, the best golfers on earth do something they almost never do the week before a major: play a full tournament. The Masters, PGA, and U.S. Open all see stars rest, scout, and arrive early; The Open Championship alone gets the opposite, a stampede into the Genesis Scottish Open, where this week the world’s … Read more
The Scottish Open winners list reads like a preview of golf history written a week early: Phil Mickelson won it in 2013 and lifted the Claret Jug seven days later; Rory McIlroy’s 2023 win came on one of the great closing shots of his career; and last year Chris Gotterup outdueled McIlroy at The Renaissance … Read more
The 2026 Genesis Scottish Open carries a $9 million purse, with $1.62 million and 500 FedExCup points going to Sunday’s winner at The Renaissance Club, plus, in the sponsor’s signature flourish, a Genesis GV60 Magma to drive home. As the co-sanctioned tune-up before next week’s Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, it’s one of the richest … Read more
For twelve years, the answer to “who has scored the most goals in World Cup history?” was Miroslav Klose, the German poacher whose 16 goals across four tournaments looked like one of football’s more durable records. Then the 2026 World Cup arrived, and in the space of three weeks the record did not just fall, … Read more
Novak Djokovic owns 24 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any man in tennis history, and as of this week, the number is under live threat of becoming 25. The 39-year-old just survived the longest quarterfinal ever played at Wimbledon (five hours, fifteen minutes) to reach a record 15th semifinal at the All England … Read more