Andrew Kerth 
Here’s the honest answer up front: The Open Championship has no official record for most birdies in a tournament. The R&A’s record book tracks scoring — lowest rounds, lowest totals, largest margins — but it has never published tournament-long birdie counts the way the USGA does for the U.S. Open, where Rickie Fowler’s 23 birdies … Read more
Seventy golfers and ties make the cut at The Open Championship. After 36 holes, the 156-player field is trimmed to the 70 lowest scores — plus anyone tied at that number — and everyone else goes home before the weekend. That rule is in effect right now at the 2026 Open at Royal Birkdale, where … Read more
Every NFL season starts in the same place: a 23,000-seat stadium in Canton, Ohio, next door to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame Game is the league’s annual preseason opener, played during enshrinement weekend as the new class of Hall of Famers is honored on the field. In 2026, that means … Read more
Every July, as NFL training camps open, the same three letters start appearing next to star players’ names: PUP. The Physically Unable to Perform list is one of the most-searched and least-understood roster designations in football — partly because “on the PUP list” in July and “on the PUP list” in September mean two very … Read more
Every NFL team carries a 16-player practice squad alongside its 53-man active roster — a mix of rookies who didn’t survive final cuts, veterans hanging on for another shot, and scout-team specialists who make game weeks run. They practice every day and learn the full playbook, but their paychecks live in a completely different universe … Read more
Every one of the 257 players drafted in April 2026 will report to training camp this month on a contract he had almost no say in. The NFL rookie wage scale assigns a predetermined value to every draft slot — the higher the pick, the bigger the deal — and there is virtually nothing left … Read more
Hank Aaron was selected to 25 All-Star Games — a number so large it needs an asterisk to be believed: for four seasons (1959-62), baseball played TWO All-Star Games a year, letting the era’s giants stack selections at double speed. Aaron, Willie Mays (24), and Stan Musial (24) tower over the list partly because of … Read more
Do MLB players get paid extra for making the All-Star team? The league’s own check is famously modest — but the honest answer is that an All-Star selection is worth serious money anyway, just through side doors: contract bonuses that pay six figures the moment the roster is announced, arbitration leverage that compounds for years, … Read more
The MLB minimum salary in 2026 is $780,000 — the floor beneath a sport whose stars make $70 million, and the actual paycheck for a huge share of every roster. Roughly a third of the players on Opening Day rosters earn at or near the minimum, because baseball’s pay system makes almost everyone wait years … Read more
When a big league hitter squares up a fastball, the ball can leave the bat faster than cars travel on the highway. That speed has a name: exit velocity. It is one of the most important modern measurements in baseball, telling us how hard a ball was hit, how far it will travel, and how … Read more