MILAN — It didn’t matter that Abbey Murphy was in the corner with her back to teammate Hannah Bilka and a defender draped all over her.
The electric young American star still found a way to catch the Canadian defense by surprise and set up Bilka for the easiest goal she’ll ever score.
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“That was an incredible pass,” Bilka said. “She has eyes in the back of her head. I really don’t know how she saw me, but it was an insane play.”
Murphy’s slick no-look, behind-the-back pass was the highlight of the U.S. women’s hockey team’s statement-making 5-0 victory over Canada on Tuesday night. The Americans solidified themselves as unequivocal favorites at these Olympics by dominating a highly anticipated rivalry showdown that likely doubled as a preview of next week’s gold-medal match.
One of the biggest reasons that the U.S. won so convincingly was the performance of Murphy. The 23-year-old University of Minnesota forward assisted on three of the U.S.’s five goals, two of which were netted by Bilka. As usual, she also got under the skin of the Canadians and drew penalties that led to four American power plays.
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“She’s a special player,” said Kirsten Simms, who plays for the University of Wisconsin and faces Murphy a handful of times per year. “When she’s on your team, it’s a lot more fun.”
This isn’t the first time that Murphy has produced a viral moment with her uncanny awareness and passing ability. Check out this highlight-reel pass from last month that hockey analyst John Buccigross called “the greatest assist of all time.”
Murphy is the biggest X factor for a U.S. team with plenty of firepower. When she plays at this level, the Americans go from the best team in the world to practically unbeatable.
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“She’s such a high-IQ player, but she can also put the puck in the back of the net,” Bilka said. “She’s really a dual threat.”
We have an action-packed episode of The Big Number for you! First, Tom Haberstroh and Dan Devine discuss the controversial way the Utah Jazz are utilizing Jaren Jackson Jr.
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Next, the duo dives into the league-wide tanking concerns and why it is a significant issue in light of the NBA gambling indictments. What solutions can the league establish? Later, Dan and Tom discuss the small numbers, including James Harden’s role in the Cavaliers’ success and why Donovan Mitchell is thriving with Harden.
Also, they break down how many teams will have salary cap space this summer, the number of trades the Bulls have made and whether the Bulls are a hopeless organization.
Plus, they discuss the suspensions following the Detroit Pistons-Charlotte Hornets fight earlier this week. What are the implications of the suspensions for the race in the East? Can the Pistons maintain their top spot?
All that and more on The Big Number! The Big
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Max Muncy’s career with the Los Angeles Dodgers will continue for at least two more seasons.
The veteran infielder agreed to a one-year, $7 million extension for 2027, the team announced Thursday. The deal includes a $10 million club option for 2028 versus a $3 million buyout.
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Muncy, 35, was signed through the 2026 campaign, with the Dodgers picking up his $10 million club option. He was set to become a free agent after the season.
Last year, Muncy batted .243/.376/.470 with 19 home runs and 67 RBI. He was limited to 100 games (97 at third base) during the regular season due to a knee bone bruise and oblique injuries. In the postseason, he hit .214/.353/.411 with 11 walks, 3 homers and 3 RBI.
His biggest postseason home run was surely the one he hit in Game 7 of the World Series off Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Troy Yesavage that cut the Dodgers’ deficit to 4-3 in the eighth inning and began a comeback that eventually led to a 5-4 victory in 11 innings and the franchise’s second consecutive World Series championship.
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This season will be Muncy’s ninth with the Dodgers after he signed with them as a free agent prior to the 2018 season. He was a fifth-round draft selection by the Athletics in 2012 out of Baylor. During his career with the Dodgers, Muncy has slashed .232/.358/.485 with 135 doubles, 209 home runs, 575 walks and 587 RBI.
During DodgerFest on Jan. 31, Muncy spoke about becoming the Dodgers’ longest-tenured player with the retirement of Clayton Kershaw.
“For me, just my personal journey, it’s something I never would have dreamed of,” Muncy said, via The Athletic. “I was basically out of baseball for a little bit. And now here I am, the most-tenured player on the team. I never would have imagined that in my life. That’s for sure. It’s something I’m very blessed to have had. I don’t take it for granted. I try to enjoy every second I get here.”
Muncy’s home run total currently ranks seventh among the Dodgers’ all-time leaders, behind Steve Garvey’s 211. If he stays healthy, Muncy should pass Ron Cey (228) to move into fifth on the list. Overtaking Roy Campanella (242) for fourth or perhaps even Eric Karros for third (270) might be possible as well.
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Enrique Hernández re-signs with Dodgers
The Dodgers also announced the re-signing of utilityman Enrique Hernández on Thursday. The 13-year MLB veteran agreed to a one-year, $4.5 million contract, which will keep him with the team for a fourth consecutive season (and 10th overall with the Dodgers).
Hernández appeared in 92 games last season and was sidelined for seven weeks due to left elbow inflammation. He had surgery on the elbow in November, and recovery is expected to keep him out for Opening Day.
In nine seasons with the Dodgers, Hernández has a .236/.305/.403 slash line with 124 doubles, 95 homers and 320 RBI. More importantly, he has played multiple positions, including third base, left field, center field and first base. He has even pitched.
Tottenham have parted ways with Thomas Frank, and the big question is: was he really the problem? The boys dig into what’s actually happening at Spurs, whether the issues run deeper than the head coach, and which managers could realistically step in to fix things. Is this about tactics, recruitment, ownership — or something bigger?
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Then Austin FC striker Brandon Vazquez joins the show for an honest and revealing conversation. He opens up about recovering from his ACL injury, doing “quick maths” in his head about the World Cup timeline the moment he got hurt, and what it will take to fight his way back into the U.S. Men’s National Team picture. Vazquez also shares what it was really like playing in Liga MX — from nonstop media attention to the intensity of fan culture — and how it compares to MLS. Plus, we get the full origin story of his “Superman” goal celebration (yes, including the capes).
To close it out, the boys react to the 2026 MLS kit reveal and give their unfiltered best and worst picks. Which clubs nailed it? Which designs should’ve stayed in the concept phase? We’re handing out praise, roasting questionable choices, and ranking the fits you’ll be seeing all season long.
Timestamps:
(11:00) – Thomas Frank sacked! What is the issue at Tottenham?
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(20:00) – Discussing possible replacement for Tottenham
The fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is later this month. Not that anyone in the bludgeoned nation needs to be reminded.
The death toll has climbed into the tens of thousands. Many more have been displaced. Land has been taken, cities destroyed. Food shortages and power outages plague the country, a situation worsened by an unforgiving winter.
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So when FIFA president Gianni Infantino suggested to Sky News earlier this month that Russia’s ban from international soccer — a penalty for its military aggressions — has “not achieved anything” and should be revisited, Ukrainians were appalled.
“It will be better for him to come and to see what’s going on here,” Serhiy Palkin, chief executive of Shakhtar Donetsk, one of the country’s most successful soccer clubs, told Yahoo Sports this week. “People say to take football out of politics. It’s not correct, because it’s part of our life. Football is a game where thousands, millions, billions of people are watching and are interested. Politics and football are all together. … He’s supporting Russia and destroying Ukraine. It looks like he is ignoring Ukraine. For me, I don’t understand. I don’t understand this kind of statement.”
Although Infantino’s suggestion did not gain much traction at the annual gathering of European soccer officials in Brussels on Thursday, it did seem to nudge the door open to a limited return in the near future, in particular at the youth level. Russia’s larger aim is reinstatement for the European Championship and World Cup.
“UEFA’s position is clear and has not changed but we are looking into everything, every day,” UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin told reporters in Brussels. “Let’s see what the future brings.”
Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Gianni Infantino during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on Feb. 20, 2019.
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Infantino, who forged a close relationship with Vladimir Putin when Russia hosted the 2018 World Cup, said the ban has “just created more frustration and hatred.”
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Ukrainian officials won’t hear of it.
“Gianni Infantino’s words sound irresponsible — not to say infantile,” Matvii Bidnyi, Ukraine’s minister of youth and sports, wrote on social media.
“I don’t understand at all what [Infantino] is thinking,” Palkin said in the Yahoo interview. “We have four years of war. … It’s unbelievably difficult to survive in these circumstances. … Infantino is always saying we are one football family, but he never pays attention to Ukrainian football. He just does everything to destroy our football, not protect our football, not help our football.”
Russia has been a sports pariah since the 2022 invasion, when UEFA and FIFA joined the International Olympic Committee in suspending the country’s participation in official competitions. Aside from youth and senior national teams, clubs were forbidden from competing in European tournaments.
Ukrainian freestyle skier Kateryna Kotsar was barred from using a helmet with the inscription “Be Brave Like Ukrainians.”
Heraskevych wrote on his Instagram page that “this is the price of dignity.”
Palkin concurred, saying, “The Olympic Games is one space where you can pay attention to the situation, where you can send messages saying what’s going on in real life.”
Shakhtar Donetsk CEO Serhiy Palkin looks on prior to a UEFA Champions League match against FC Porto at Volksparkstadion on Sept. 19, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany.
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Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine’s greatest goal scorer and current Ukrainian Football Association president, met with Infantino in Brussels.
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“We sat down. He listened,” Shevchenko told the Daily Mirror.
Ukrainian soccer has felt the bruising effects of war. Because of the dangers at home, the national team played 2026 World Cup qualifiers in Poland, while several clubs, including Shakhtar, have had to relocate to safer cities indefinitely.
Shakhtar actually fled its home in eastern Ukraine in 2014, when Russian separatists claimed the Donbas region and annexed Crimea. These days, the team is based in Lviv, 750 miles west of Donetsk. Players live in a hotel. Home matches are played in a shared stadium. The number of spectators is determined by the capacity of nearby bomb shelters, typically 2,500.
Top-flight clubs from Kharkiv and Luhansk have relocated to Zhytomyr and Kyiv, respectively. Others from various divisions have ceased or suspended operations.
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“The biggest problem is at night because the Russians try to bomb our cities at night,” Palkin said. “Sometimes, our team doesn’t sleep all night and then the next day we have to play an official game. I mean, what kind of football can we show when we don’t sleep?”
Because Ukrainian airspace is closed, Shakhtar’s travel for European competitions requires a 110-mile bus ride to the closest major airport in Poland. Border backups can result in 12 hours sitting on the bus. “Home” matches are played in Krakow, Poland.
Retaining players, not to mention recruiting players from abroad, is a challenge.
“Everyone understands the dangerous situation we have,” Palkin said. “I spent a lot of time talking to agents and parents trying to convince them to come. Sometimes I get a refusal, sometimes they agree. We can’t compete [for players] like we did before war.”
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Rated the ninth-best club circuit in Europe as recently as 2020-21, Ukraine has dropped to No. 25. Consequently, the winner no longer receives an automatic berth in the formal stage of the Champions League, Europe’s top competition.
Shakhtar has persevered, winning the domestic league in 2022-23 and 2023-24. Since Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Shakhtar and Dynamo Kyiv have claimed all but one first-division trophy.
At this season’s winter break, Shakhtar sits in second place, tied on points with LNZ Cherkasy but behind in the head-to-head tiebreaker. In Europe, Shakhtar has advanced to the Round of 16 in the third-tier Conference League.
The roster features 13 Ukrainians and a dozen Brazilians — because Brazil exports more talent than any other country, even to war zones. The coaching staff is largely Turkish, headed by Arda Turan, a former Atlético Madrid and Barcelona midfielder.
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“Every day living in this kind of situation, the emotions are very difficult,” Palkin said. “If you tell us at the beginning of the war that it will continue for years, nobody will believe that it will be so long and so hard.”
Infantino’s comments about Russian reinstatement made it even harder.
“We have optimism because we hear about negotiations and hope for positive results, but the current situation is becoming worse,” Palkin said, “because they’re trying to destroy us.”
We have an action-packed episode of ‘The Dunker Spot’ coming your way!
Steve Jones and Nekias Duncan give you the latest news and updates surrounding the 2026 All-Star Weekend. They dive into their predictions for Team USA vs. World, who will come out victorious in the skills competitions and what to expect with the new format.
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Next, they dive into the news of the NBA fining the Utah Jazz and Indiana Pacers hefty amounts for tanking. Does the league have a tanking problem? What are possible solutions?
Plus, Angel Reese is back in Unrivaled! They give their takeaways, recap the 1v1 tournament and preview the latest matchups.
All that and more!
1:03 Rising Stars showcase preview 9:29 3-point contest preview 14:35 Shooting Stars competition preview 18:07 Dunk contest preview 22:14 New format expectations 27:26 All-Star replacements 32:16 Lineup predictions 35:26 Key players to watch 38:25 Team USA vs. World predictions 39:02 Jazz & Pacers fined 47:40 Unrivaled takeaways & thoughts
Donovan Mitchell #45 of the Cleveland Cavaliers shoots the ball during the 2025 KIA Skills Challenge as part of the State Farm All-Star Saturday Night at Chase Center on February 15, 2025 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Two minutes before NBA commissioner Adam Silver was scheduled to address the media in an upstairs room at Intuit Dome, his deputy, Mark Tatum, cheerfully shook hands with reporters before taking his seat in the front row.
That the league’s second-in-command was eagerly anticipating Silver’s words, much like the other occupants in the room, was poignant. Given the most prominent talking points that have dominated league discourse lately — the tanking epidemic, sports betting issues and alleged cap circumvention — have become so prevalent, the build-up to Silver’s news conference was seismic.
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However, following the duration of Silver’s availability — he spoke for around 30 minutes — there were far more questions as a result of his answers (or lack thereof).
The first question posed to the commissioner, and the most detailed response Silver gave, was about the issue of tanking. This makes sense, given how quickly the league office acted in response to recent misbehavior from the Utah Jazz and Indiana Pacers. Both organizations were fined; $500,000 to the Jazz and $100,000 to the Pacers for actions detrimental to the core values of the NBA. Utah’s modus operandi was far more egregious than Indiana’s — sitting its two best players for entire fourth quarters in separate close games is worse than holding someone out under the guise of rest, but neither should be tolerated.
“Are we seeing behavior that is worse this year than we’ve seen in recent memory?” Silver asked Saturday. “Yes, it is my view. Which was what led to those fines, and not just those fines but to my statement that we’re going to be looking more closely at the totality of all the circumstances this season in terms of teams’ behavior, and very intentionally wanted teams to be on notice.”
Now, the real problem with tanking, at least from the vantage point of one writer, is it’s the lone arena where 29 other teams can’t share in the winnings. At least not initially. (Lottery picks don’t always pan out, and sometimes the late firsts and early seconds become the mainstays.) But don’t worry, there’s no proposal of a quick fix to what’s going on, although I’m sure you’ve read or heard a plethora of ideas this week alone. All I’m suggesting is Silver had to do something. For what it’s worth, he honestly didn’t even want to dignify the mere word of “tanking,” but it’s reached a point of no return.
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There’s an answer that lies somewhere in the middle of the ongoing epidemic; not completely punishing teams for losing, but not rewarding the seemingly cunning ones that try to game the system. Sometimes, you’re the Sacramento Kings, which goes hand in hand with parity and purgatory. How much better are the Chicago Bulls set up for their future than, say, the Brooklyn Nets? The Clippers and Hornets are both 26-29 heading into the All-Star break — would you consider them to be on equal footing?
“Part of the problem is if you step back,” Silver said, “the fundamental theory behind a draft is to help your worst-performing teams restock and be able to compete, and by the way, yes, we want parity, but parity of opportunity. … My sense is, talking to GMs and coaches around the league, that there’s probably even more parity than is reflected in our records. That goes to the incentive issue. It’s not clear to me, for example, that the 30th performing team is that much measurably worse than the 22nd performing team, particularly if you have incentive to perform poorly to get a better draft pick. It’s a bit of a conundrum.”
So where does it end? The Jazz aren’t going to suddenly turn over a new leaf and be competitive the rest of the way. Half a million isn’t enough to deter or prevent future behavior — Utah has clearly shown it’s fine with throwing away money. Vince Williams Jr., who arrived at the deadline, played seven minutes in a 135-119 loss to Portland this week — he’s owed $2.3 million. (The Jazz are only on the hook for a prorated amount, but you get the point.) How do you also govern the other teams that could potentially fall under the same umbrella? Silver needs to move quickly before tanking takes on a life of its own, especially considering the talent of incoming players in a few months.
On the topic of expansion, Silver essentially confirmed, then tried to reverse his words about the possibilities of Las Vegas and Seattle being the NBA’s next destinations.
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“My sense is at the March Board of Governors meetings, we’ll be having further discussions around an expansion process,” Silver said. “We won’t be voting at the March meeting, but we will likely come out of those meetings ready, prepared to take a next step in terms of potentially talking to interested parties. No, it doesn’t have to be a two-team expansion. Frankly, it doesn’t have to be any number of teams.”
Hmm, sure? There are a number of hoops to jump through before arriving at City X and/or Y as expansion teams, but kicking the can down the road by saying you’ll make a decision on making a decision in a few months is not as clear as one may think.
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In the case of Kawhi Leonard, Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and alleged cap circumvention, Silver conceded judiciary control to the Wachtell Lipton firm, the NBA’s go-to litigation arm. Ballmer and the Clippers are alleged to have orchestrated a $28 million endorsement deal — an absurd amount of money, enough to seriously threaten the integrity of the league. Maybe it’s not as outlandish as former referee Tim Donaghy’s scandal (Wachtell Lipton took around a year to finalize its investigation in that matter, according to The Athletic), but the league doesn’t need this to drag on for nearly the same length of time. The backlash, not only from fans and media, but the other 29 owners could be seismic.
“I’m not involved day-to-day in the investigation,” Silver said. “I think, as I’ve said before, it’s enormously complex. You have a company in bankruptcy. You have thousands of documents, multiple witnesses that have been needed to be interviewed. Our charge to the Wachtell law firm is to do the work and then come back and make recommendations to the league office, and that’s where things now stand.”
All-Star Weekend, in its purest form, is supposed to be a celebration of the good parts of the NBA — the inclusivity, the opportunity and the excellence. An uplifting view of the state of the league. Instead, we’re reminded of the economic and moral perils of basketball at the highest level, and head into the break with a slew of unsolved problems.
Morikawa survived a packed leaderboard, and a late push from Scottie Scheffler, to claim the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Sunday afternoon. It marked his first win since the 2023 season.
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Morikawa posted a 5-under 67 in the final round to get to 22-under on the week. That gave him a one-shot win over the field in the first signature event of the PGA Tour season. As a result, Morikawa is taking home a $3.6 million check.
Morikawa had to birdie the final hole to pick up his win, thanks to late charges from Min Woo Lee and Scottie Scheffler, who rallied from eight shots back to get into contention. Scheffler, the top-ranked golfer in the world, made three eagles on the day to get to T4.
Morikawa has now won seven times in his career, though it was his first since the Zozo Championship nearly 850 days ago. He was incredibly emotional after the win, too, and revealed on CBS that he and his wife, Katherine, are now expecting their first child.
Here’s how much Morikawa and the rest of the field this week at Pebble Beach.
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2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Payouts
1. Collin Morikawa — $3.6 million T2. Min Woo Lee, Sepp Straka — $1.76 million T4. Scottie Scheffler, Tommy Fleetwood — $877,500 T6. Sam Burns, Akshay Bhatia — $715,000 T8. Ryo Hisatsune, Shane Lowry, Nico Echavarria, Jake Knapp, Jacob Bridgeman, Hideki Matsuyama — $515,000 T14. Rory McIlroy, Patrick Cantlay, Matt Fitzpatrick, Tom Hoge — $342,750 18. Tony Finau —$292,000 T19. Rickie Fowler, Brian Harman, Xander Schauffele, Alex Smalley, Russell Henley — $235,000 T24. Jason Day, Nick Taylor, Ryan Fox, Harris English — $162,000 T29. Keegan Bradley, Max McGreevy, Alex Noren, Jordan Spieth, Maverick McNealy — $125,200 T34. Sami Valimaki, Mackenzie Hughes, Taylor Pendrith — $104,000 T37. Justin Rose, Bud Cauley, J.T. Poston, Chris Gotterup, Ludvig Åberg, Max Greyserman, Robert MacIntyre, Ben Griffin — $78,375 T45. Ryan Gerard, J.J. Spaun, Si Woo Kim — $57,000 T48. Pierceson Coody, Kurt Kitayama, Billy Horschel, Andrew Novak $49,250 T52. Patrick Rodgers, Chris Kirk, Keith Mitchell — $45,000 T55. Cameron Young, Sam Stevens, Denny McCarthy — $42,000 T58. Viktor Hovland, Wyndham Clark — $39,750 T60. Sahith Theegala, Aldrich Potgieter, Garrick Higgo, Steven Fisk — $38,250 T64. Emiliano Grillo, Marco Penge, Lucas Glover — $36,500 T67. Rico Hoey, Stephan Jaeger, Matt McCarty — $35,083 T70. Kevin Yu, Corey Conners — $34,375 72. Michael Kim — $34,000 T73. Aaron Rai, Matti Schmid — $33,625 T75. Joe Highsmith, Daniel Berger — $33,125 77. Adam Schenk — $32,750 T78. Brian Campbell, Michael Thorbjornsen, Jhonattan Vegas — $32,250
Scottie Scheffler’s run came just a bit too early on Sunday afternoon at Pebble Beach.
With Scheffler watching from the clubhouse, it was instead Collin Morikawa who made it out to claim the first signature event of the PGA Tour season and end his years-long dry spell.
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Morikawa fended off a huge group late on Sunday afternoon at Pebble Beach Golf Links to claim the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He posted a 5-under 67 in his final round to get to 22-under on the week, which gave him a one-shot win over the field. The win is Morikawa’s seventh of his Tour career, and his first since 2023.
Though he had a two-shot lead late, Morikawa had to birdie the 18th to claim his win. After a short drive on the par-5, Morikawa landed his second shot just short on the rough after a nearly 20-minute delay in the fairway while Jacob Bridgeman struggled ahead of him to close out his round.
Morikawa then easily secured a two-putt birdie, despite his ball sitting right on the edge of the thick rough, to finish out his win.
That left Morikawa understandably emotional on the green as his wife, Katherine Zhu, came out to celebrate with him.
“We’re actually expecting later this year, in a few months, and we just started telling people this week,” Morikawa revealed on CBS, wiping away tears. “We said, ‘What a better way, the best way to announce it to the world if I was able to come out and win?’
“There’s so much to life, there’s so much to enjoy. I’m hard on myself … I’m just so thankful for the people around me.”
Morikawa survives late at Pebble Beach
Morikawa only got into contention thanks to a wild moving day, where he put up 11 birdies to jump into a three-way tie for second. He still entered the final round two shots back of Akshay Bhatia.
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Morikawa hung around early on a windy, rainy Sunday, too. He made the turn at 2-under on the day, and then joined the pack at 20-under after a birdie at the 11th. But it was a 30-footer at the par-4 15th that finally sent Morikawa into the solo lead for the first time.
Morikawa followed that up with an 8-foot birdie putt at the 16th, which suddenly gave him a two-shot lead over the field. But that immediately disappeared, after Min Woo Lee birdied above him and then Morikawa bogeyed the 17th when his tee shot on the par 3 landed in the thick rough well left of the green.
But that set up Morikawa’s two-putt birdie and his eventual win on the final hole.
“[A win here] was never in the dreams, honestly. Pebble Beach was a course that you just wanted to come and play, and you wanted to come and play against the pros and play against the best in the world,” he said on CBS. “62 yesterday, a great field, a great leaderboard looking at the entire day. Just to be able to pull off those last two shots … it feels great.
“I’m slowly trying to smile now, because the tears I think are going away.”
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Even though it was too early, Scheffler was once again in contention. The top-ranked golfer in the world made a massive run earlier in the day after he started eight shots back.
Scheffler posted a 9-under 63, which gave him his 19th straight top-10 finish on Tour, and his 18th round of 63 or better on Tour over the past five seasons — which is five more than anyone else has produced over that timespan. Scheffler joined the leaders at 20-under when he hit the clubhouse, too, thanks to an absolutely ridiculous approach into the par-5 18th as the wind was picking up. That gave him his third eagle of the day. He is now the first golfer in the past four decades to make that many in a single round in this event.
Had it not been for a trio of bogeys, two of which came on the back side, Scheffler may have run away with the event completely. But his bogeys and early start left plenty of time for the rest of the field to overtake him. Lee birdied the 18th, too, to get to 21-under — which eliminated Scheffler from contention and made things more complicated for Morikawa briefly. That gave Lee his second-place finish, his best outing on Tour since his inaugural win last season.
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Scheffler finished in a tie for fourth with Tommy Fleetwood, a shot back from Lee. Sepp Straka joined Lee in second after he eagled the final hole.
Morikawa’s win was the first of his career since he claimed the Zozo Championship in 2023. That came after his British Open win in 2021, which was his second major title. Morikawa missed only three cuts last season and had a pair of runner-up finishes, and the 29-year-old entered this week at No. 19 in the Official World Golf Rankings, but that seventh win continued to elude him.
But now, after nearly 850 days, Morikawa has finally won again.
“Shoot, we’re at Pebble Beach,” Morikawa said, looking out at the Pacific Ocean briefly. “So I’m going to enjoy this one.”
Kevin O’Connor gives his seven biggest takeaways from a star-studded NBA All-Star Weekend. Was the new format a success? Is expansion back on the board? Kevin gives his thoughts.
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Next, Ben Golliver joins the show to break down the tanking crisis and which teams are most guilty of tanking the most.
Plus, Cedric Coward joins to share his lessons from his rookie season, his progression as a player and the toughest players to defend.
0:28 Seven biggest takeaways from All-Star Weekend 15:41 Ben Golliver joins the show 45:23 Cedric Coward joins the show
Inglewood, CA – February 15: Anthony Edwards,left, along with teammate Scottie Barnes, right, of Team USA Stars hoists the championship trophy after defeateing Team USA Stripes 47-21 to win the 75th NBA All-Star game at Intuit Dome in Inglewood on Sunday, February 15, 2026.
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