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Spurs travel to Premier League champions Manchester City on Saturday reeling from a disappointing home loss to Ipswich before the international break. The club’s problems have multiplied during the past fortnight with midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur handed a seven-match domestic ban on Monday and Cristian Romero (toe) joining a lengthy list of absentees. However, Postecoglou remains bullish about Tottenham’s progress and acutely aware of the scrutiny set to come his way if they stay 10th. “Christmas is a joyous occasion, irrespective, and I think it should be celebrated. If we’re still 10th then people won’t be happy, I won’t be happy, but we might not be 10th,” Postecoglou pointed out before nine games in 30 days. “Certainly for us I think it’s a significant period because you look at those games and we’ve got the league where we’ve got to improve our position and a couple of important European fixtures that can set us up for the back half of the year, also a Carabao Cup quarter-final. “At the end of that period we could be in a decent position for a strong second half of the year, so for us it is an important period. “You know there’s no more international breaks, so the full focus is here. You can build some momentum through that, or if things don’t go well you could get yourself into a bit of a grind. Ready for #MCITOT 👊 Go behind the scenes of training ahead of our trip to Manchester 🎥⤵️ pic.twitter.com/4jFZTCIwSz — Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) November 22, 2024 “Of course if we had beaten Ipswich, we’d be third and I reckon this press conference would be much different wouldn’t it? “I’m not going to let my life be dictated by one result, I’m sorry. I take a wider perspective on these things because I know how fickle it can be, but we need to address our position for sure. “And if we’re 10th at Christmas, yeah it won’t be great. There’d be a lot of scrutiny and probably a lot of scrutiny around me, which is fair enough, but that’s not where I plan for us to be.” Tottenham’s immediate efforts to move up the table will require them ending City’s two-year unbeaten home run in the Premier League. The champions have lost their last four matches in all competitions, but have some key personnel back for Saturday’s clash and will aim to toast Pep Guardiola’s new contract with a victory. Postecoglou was pleased to see Guardiola commit to a further two seasons in England, adding: “I love the fact that there’s a massive target out there that can seem insurmountable. “I look at it the other way. I go, ‘imagine if you knock him off, that’d be something’. “I’m at the stage of my life where I’d rather have the chance of knocking him off than missing that opportunity. “When greatness is around, you want to be around it. And hopefully it challenges you to be like that as well.” Saturday’s fixture will be Postecoglou’s 50th league game in charge of Spurs and he knows what is required to bring up three figures. A post shared by Premier League (@premierleague) “No European football, significant player turnover, change of playing style. Where did I think we’d be after 50 games? God knows. “It could have been a whole lot worse, but when you look at it in the current prism of we’re 10th, you’re going ‘it doesn’t look good’ and I understand that and we have to improve that. “But over the 50 games, I think there’s enough there that shows we are progressing as a team and we are developing into the team we want. “The key is the next 50 games, if they can be in totality better than the first 50? First, that means I’m here but second, I think we’ll be in a good space.”
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Jalen Hurts is in the NFL's concussion protocol, Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni confirmed during his Monday video call with the media. The Eagles lost their starting quarterback just over five minutes of game time into Sunday's 36-33 loss to the Washington Commanders on the road. Hurts took off on a second-down run and as he fell forward, he took a hit to the head on the way down to the grass. Officials and sideline spotters noticed symptoms as he stood back up, and pulled him off the field for evaluation while Eagles backup QB Kenny Pickett went in. Hurts was ruled out with a concussion for the remainder of Sunday's game . Pickett was shaky, but did leave the Eagles with a chance to still win until it all fell apart at the end. Now the Eagles will be in a bit of a holding pattern waiting to see who their quarterback might be for Week 17, when they come back home to face the Dallas Cowboys, and with the NFC East still clinchable with just one more win. "We just lean on the doctors to let us know on a daily basis of where he is," Sirianni said of Hurts . Pickett, as the QB2, went 14-for-24 with passing for 143 yards, a touchdown, and an interception in relief of Hurts on Sunday. He got sacked three times in the second half as Washington clawed its way back, and one of the hits appeared to shake him up, even though he stayed in and finished the game. Pickett said postgame that it was his ribs that were hurting, but Sirianni had no update about that on Monday. Tanner McKee is the next man up behind Pickett, though, and did outplay him in the preseason , which led to questions about the third-stringer also. Sirianni vouched for each of them with Hurts' status for this coming Sunday in limbo. "Tanner gives us a lot of confidence. Kenny gives us a lot of confidence," Sirianni said."I think that's just a tribute to [general manager Howie Roseman] and his staff, of the all the pieces that he's given us to work with, and the depth that he's given us to work with." Wide receiver DeVonta Smith, and defensive backs Darius Slay and Reed Blankenship each suffered concussions earlier in the season, and their resulting time in the protocol each led to them missing a game after a week of being unable to practice . A similar timeline for Hurts is a strong likelihood, and a factor the Eagles will brace for in their gameplanning for this week. "You adjust," Sirianni said of whether Hurts or Pickett (or McKee) will be the QB. "There are a lot of similarities. There are little differences, but there are differences. It's just something you adjust to. This is the unfortunate part of the NFL. We've had a lot of experience doing this with different positions, and that includes the quarterback." There is a slight chance that Hurts won't miss the Cowboys game, but that would be a tough prospect. He would have to clear all his tests with the doctors and prove he's not at a major re-injury risk, which would be a process that would likely prevent him from getting in any practice reps before Sunday. Sirianni didn't dismiss the possibility of letting Hurts go back in without any practice if he does get cleared, but he was far from committing to anything either. The Eagles are going to have to wait on a lot. "Each and every week is a different scenario," Sirianni said. "What I've seen is Jalen knows how to prepare, knows how to get himself ready. He is a true pro." Follow Nick on Twitter: @itssnick Follow Nick on Bluesky: @itssnick Like us on Facebook: PhillyVoice SportsAlliant Energy Corp. stock underperforms Monday when compared to competitors
Ameren's senior executive VP & CFO Michael Moehn sells $598,975 in stockIngo Rademacher is trying to take ABC back to court over his 2021 firing from General Hospital , and he’s bringing former co-star Steve Burton into it. Rademacher, who played Jasper “Jax” Jacks on the daytime drama for 25 years on and off, was fired in 2021 when he refused to follow the show’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. He sued the soap later that year claiming that he was fired because of his political views and not just the mandate. “I am entitled to a religious exemption against mandatory vaccination for COVID-19 on the basis of my deeply and sincerely held moral belief that my body is endowed by my creator with natural processes to protect me and that its natural integrity cannot ethically be violated by the administration of artificially created copies of genetic material, foreign to nature and experimental,” the actor wrote in an e-mail to Disney HR before his firing, according to Variety . Rademacher lost the initial suit in 2023 when a judge found that because General Hospital also fired Burton, who plays Jason Morgan in the series, this proved the decision was about the health mandate. Rademacher is resurrecting the suit now because Burton was rehired on the series in January 2024. Jason made his official reappearance in March of that year. In Radaemacher’s motion for a new trial, obtained by InTouch , his lawyer argues, “ABC’s re-hiring of Mr. Burton undermines its argument that Ingo’s political beliefs did not play any role in its decision to fire him—to ‘recast’ his role—in 2021...Judge Goorvitch credited ABC’s evidence that the political animus that the General Hospital producers showed toward Ingo was irrelevant because, like other people, including GH actor Steve Burton, it simply could not accommodate Ingo’s objection to COVID-19 vaccination and fired him only for that reason. “That argument was always specious. But it carries even less weight now, given the newly discovered evidence that ABC re-hired [Steve] for General Hospital but did not re-hire Ingo,” his lawyer continued. The documents also claim that GH will never rehire Rademacher because of his outspoken support for Donald Trump during the 2020 election. He hopes to get a new trial and a jury to evaluate his wrongful termination claim. A judgment on the motion is expected in the new year. Rademacher has opened up about how being let go from the show has affected him, sharing on Instagram in November 2023 that he’s been struggling with mental health issues since leaving the series. “To be completely honest, for the first time in my life, I’ve been faced with some mental health struggles. That’s not something I’ve ever had to face before. I’m a lot better now, but the first year was rough,” he said at the time . “On top of that, I really identified as my character on General Hospital for decades, and I could’ve been there and would’ve been there for many more decades to come,” he continued. “This isn’t a boo-hoo me post, it’s just honest. It’s where I’m at.” More Headlines:Among the many countries Michael Kim flew to in the 2024 PGA Tour season was Mexico for the World Wide Technology Championship. Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images The life of a PGA Tour pro can seem glamorous, darting across the globe and back all year long chasing giant purses. But to accomplish all that jetting around, pro golfers rely on, well, jets. And all that airline travel, plus the hotel stays once they arrive, comes at a shocking cost. We know that thanks to Tour pro Michael Kim . Kim has become one of the best follows on social media for golfers. He regularly dispenses valuable and interesting insight into the behind-the-scenes life of a PGA Tour pro , both the good and the bad. It’s the kind of transparency modern sports fans love to see, and Kim provided his latest dose this week to his followers on X. In a post on Friday morning, Kim shared a screenshot of a graph showing the total money he spent on flights and hotels for PGA Tour events in the 2024 season, revealing a staggering sum: $92,698.11 . That enormous cost accumulated while Kim played in 30 different PGA Tour events in 2024, including stops in Hawaii, Mexico, Canada, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Bermuda and points all across the continental U.S. Kim added that the $92K+ total he spent featured “zero dollars spent on private flights, and rarely business class.” Unlike some Tour stars, Kim always flies commercial, presumably making his travel costs far lower than others, as he noted in his post. “Can’t imagine some of the top guys’ costs,” Kim wrote. 😅 This is my spending on flights and hotels for 30 tournaments in 2024. Zero dollars spent on private flights, and rarely business class. Can’t imagine some of the top guys’ costs... At least I’m racking up some CC points! pic.twitter.com/tnqLHRl2fF Kim’s example is helpful to educate golf fans on how costly it can be to be a pro golfer outside of the elite ranks. You have to spend big to have any chance of making a living, and little money is guaranteed. Kim, who has one career Tour victory, still ended up in the green for the 2024 season. Despite missing 13 cuts and only capturing two top-10 finishes, Kim’s official money for the season came out to $1,484,233 . The lion’s share of those earnings, though, came from just five tournaments, further showing the financial insecurity many players on the lower rungs of the Tour face. Ironically, his biggest paycheck of the season was $310,800 for a T6-finish at the American Express, which was just his second start of the year and was played in California, the state where he grew up. Latest In News Golf.com Editor As managing producer for GOLF.com, Cunningham edits, writes and publishes stories on GOLF.com, and manages the brand’s e-newsletters, which reach more than 1.4 million subscribers each month. 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Winners of 3 straight, UTEP takes aim at short-handed LouisvilleNEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams appears open to switching parties to become a Republican, as he declined to rule out a future change in political allegiances during a pair of interviews Friday that came as he has increasing warmed to President-elect Donald Trump. The comments from Adams, the top Democrat in one of the country's most liberal cities, riled critics who have grown concerned over the mayor's increasing willingness to throw his support behind Trump and his hardline immigration policies. Adams, who faces federal corruption charges , was a registered Republican in the 1990s and early 2000s but has spent his political career as a Democrat. In a Friday morning interview with the local cable news station NY1, Adams was asked if he would consider a return to the GOP. The Democrat appeared to leave open the possibility of a switch. “The party that’s the most important for me is the American party,” he said. “I’m a part of the American party. I love this country. This is the home of the free, the land of the brave.” In another interview about a half-hour later on PIX11, Adams said he would run for reelection as a Democrat but still appeared to leave some wiggle room for his future. “So no matter what party I’m on or vote on, I’m going to push for the American values," he said. "And I think America has told us, stop the squabbling, leaders, and start leading us out of the crisis that we’re facing.” Adams won office on a centrist platform and has spent significant time as mayor quarreling with the progressive wing of his party. But his rhetoric has taken a noticeable rightward turn in the weeks since Trump's election victory, particularly on immigration, with Adams boosting the president-elect's platform and appearing enthusiastic about the incoming administration. Rather than restricting cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as he once promised, Adams recently expressed a willingness to roll back the city’s so-called sanctuary policies, and he plans to meet with Trump’s top border official over concerns about what the mayor said was the “rising illegal alien crime rate in New York City.” He has also praised those in Trump’s orbit, including Elon Musk, who has claimed falsely that Democrats are illegally “importing” migrants to garner votes. “This is a racehorse that wanted to run its right pace and we’ve been holding back that racehorse out of fear of being canceled,” Adams said of the country Tuesday. “And now you have a bunch of people who are not afraid of being canceled.” The shift comes as Adams is trying to fight off an indictment on federal corruption charges while governing the city and gearing up to run for a second term. Adams has pleaded not guilty in his criminal case, in which he has been accused of accepting free or discounted overseas trips and illegal campaign contributions from people looking to gain his influence, including people connected to Turkey or the Turkish government. Adams’ critics have seized on his recent comments about the Trump administration as a move toward self-preservation, accusing the mayor of cozying up to the next president in an effort to secure a pardon in his corruption case. “Eric Adams continues to sound more like he is auditioning for a job in right-wing media than running for reelection in a Democratic primary,” said Zohran Mamdani, a state assembly member who is challenging against Adams in the mayoral primary. “Eric Adams is in City Hall because Democratic voters sent him there. To serve his own narrow self-interests, he is clearly prepared to betray them.” Zellnor Myrie, a state senator who is also challenging Adams in the primary, said “at a time when the Republican Party has never been more out of line with New York values, we need a mayor who isn’t scared to call himself a Democrat.” “Instead of playing footsie with the next president, we need a mayor with the courage to stand up for our city,” Myrie wrote on X. Adams on Friday did distance himself from the Trump administration's potential plans to carry out mass deportations, saying, “You know, I’m not for mass deportation, but I’m not for mass saturation.” Still, the mayor's recent remarks are a major departure from his stance before he took office. In June of 2021, a few weeks before winning the Democratic mayoral primary, Adams spoke to a room full of immigrant New Yorkers about the challenges facing city residents who are in the country illegally. “Too many of our neighbors live in the shadows,” he said at the time, “scarred by the abusive rhetoric and tactics of the Trump era and fearing a denial of their rights.” Izaguirre reported from Albany.
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MISSOULA — The Montana football team will tackle a schedule unlike any other in recent memory during the 2025 season. The Grizzlies will play 12 consecutive games without a true bye week and will be the first-ever FCS team to play eight regular-season home games. Their bye falls in Week 1, which is a result of scheduling all four nonconference games at home while working around the Big Sky Conference slate. They start with four home games beginning in Week 2 on Sept. 6 and will play six of their first seven games in Washington-Grizzly Stadium. They don't leave the state until they hop on a bus to Pocatello, Idaho, for an Oct. 4 game. They won't get on a plane until their Oct. 25 game in Sacramento, California. The Griz will play just three teams that finished with a winning record in the 2024 season. Only two of those teams are FCS programs as the other one with a record above .500 is from the NCAA Division II level. Only one of those two FCS teams are currently slated to have the same head coach in 2025. Montana Grizzlies running back Eli Gillman (10) runs the ball down the field before scoring a touchdown during a college football game between the Montana Grizzlies and the Weber State Wildcats on Saturday, Oct. 5 in Washington Grizzly Stadium. The Wildcats went 8-4 overall and were eliminated in first round of the NCAA Division II playoffs. They played one FCS team, losing 26-7 on the road against San Diego, which plays in the non-scholarship Pioneer Football League. Chris Fisk has been the head coach since 2019. Montana is 3-0 all-time against Central Washington, last playing in the spring 2021 season. The Fighting Hawks went 5-7 overall and 2-6 in the Missouri Valley Football Conference to finish in a tie for eighth place. They missed the playoffs and will have a new coach with Bubba Schweigert out. They hired Eric Schmidt, an All-American linebacker for UND who most recently was the San Diego State defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. This is the second game in a home-and-home series. The first game took place in 2024 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The Griz lost 27-24 as they were outscored 20-0 in the second half. They'll have an opportunity for revenge in Missoula. Montana is 15-10-1 all-time against UND. The Sycamores went 4-8 overall and 3-5 in the Missouri Valley Football Conference to finish in a tie for sixth place. They missed the playoffs, but they did win their most games since going 5-6 in 2021. Curt Mallory has been the head coach since 2017. This is the second game of a home-and-home series. The Griz won the first game 49-14 in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 2022. Montana is 1-0 all-time against ISU. The Vandals finished the season 10-4 overall and went 6-2 in the Big Sky to finish in a tie for third place. They lost twice to Montana State (FCS playoff No. 1 seed), once to Oregon (FBS playoff No. 1 seed) and once to UC Davis (FCS playoff No. 5 seed). They were knocked out in the quarterfinals for the second season in a row under third-year head coach Jason Eck. He left the day after the season ended to be the head coach at FBS New Mexico. Idaho hired former assistant Thomas Ford to replace Eck after he spent 2024 at Oregon State. The Vandals lose All-Big Sky first-team defensive linemen Keyshawn James-Newby (graduation) and Dallas Afalava (portal), first-team linebacker Jaxton Eck (portal), All-Big Sky receivers Jordan Dwyer (portal) and Mark Hamper (portal), and starting quarterback Jack Layne (portal). Montana and Idaho didn't play in the 2024 season. The Vandals are the only current Big Sky team the Griz have an all-time losing record against; Montana is 32-55-2. The Bengals went 5-7 overall and 3-5 in the Big Sky to finish in a tie for sixth place. They missed the playoffs under second-year head coach Cody Hawkins. It was their best record since going 6-5 in 2018. Their five wins matched the total number of victories they had across the 2021-23 seasons. All-Big Sky first-team receiver Christian Fredericksen exhausted his eligibility. Montana and Idaho State didn't play in the 2024 season. The Griz are 48-13 against the Bengals and have won 15 consecutive games in the series. The Mustangs went 3-8 overall and 2-6 in the Big Sky to finish in 10th place. They missed the playoffs under second-year head coach Paul Wulff. They've had identical 3-8 records in those two years for a total of 6-16. All-American defensive lineman Elijah Ponder exhausted his eligibility. Montana is 19-5 against Cal Poly and has won four consecutive games in the series. The Pioneers went 5-6 overall and didn't defeat a team that finished the year with a winning record. They missed the playoffs. Mark Nofri has been the head coach since 2012. The 2024 season was their first as an FCS independent after they left the Northeast Conference. Their other sports moved to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, which doesn't sponsor football. This will be the first meeting between Sacred Heart and UM. The Hornets went 3-9 overall and 1-7 in the Big Sky to finish in tie for last place in coach Andy Thompson's second year leading the program. They missed the playoffs after winning a postseason game in 2023. Thompson, a former Griz linebacker on the 2001 national championship team, stepped down with an 11-14 record in two seasons. He joined former Sacramento State coach Troy Taylor at Stanford as the assistant head coach, co-defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach. The Hornets hired UNLV offensive coordinator Brennan Marion to replace Thompson. All-Big Sky honorable mention running back Elijah Tau-Tolliver transferred to Michigan State after the season. The Hornets lost quarterback Kaiden Bennett to the portal; he started in 2023 and two games in 2024 before an injury. Montana and Sacramento State didn't play in the 2024 season. Montana leads the all-time series 21-4. The Griz last won a game in Sacramento, California, in 2013. It's their second-longest road drought against a current Big Sky team. The Wildcats went 4-8 overall and 3-5 in the Big Sky to finish in a tie for sixth place under second-year head coach Mickey Mental. They went 1-5 after upsetting Montana 55-48 in overtime in Missoula and missed the playoffs. It'll be a revenge game for the Griz, who also lost their last road game against Weber 24-21 in 2022. Starting quarterback Richie Munoz, All-Big Sky second-team running back Damon Bankston and all-conference honorable mention defensive end Brayden Wilson entered the transfer portal. Wilson landed at Wyoming. Montana leads the all-time series 40-17 but has lost three consecutive games to Weber State. The Griz last won a game in Ogden, Utah, in 2012. It's their longest road drought against a current Big Sky team. The Eagles went 4-8 overall and 3-5 in the Big Sky to finish in a tie for sixth place. They missed the playoffs under Aaron Best, who has been the head coach since 2017. He has gone 52-40 and has had two seasons with a winning record, most recently in 2021. Two-year starting quarterback Kekoa Visperas, who led the FCS in completion percentage, left via the portal and transferred to Tennessee Tech. He was an All-Big Sky honorable mention in 2023. All-American wide receiver Efton Chism III exhausted his eligibility. Montana leads the all-time series 31-18-1. This past year, the Griz won a game in Cheney, Washington, for the first time since 2008. The Vikings went 3-8 overall and 3-5 in the Big Sky to finish in a tie for sixth place. They missed the playoffs under Bruce Barnum, who is 38-64 as the head coach since taking over in 2015. Portland State has had just one winning record under Barnum, when it went 9-3 in 2015. Three-year starting quarterback Dante Chachere, an All-Big Sky honorable mention in 2024, exhausted his eligibility. Montana leads the all-time series 35-13 and have won five consecutive games against PSU. The Bobcats are 15-0, won the Big Sky title for the second time in three years and are in the FCS national championship game for the second time in four seasons under fourth-year head coach Brent Vigen. They'll play North Dakota State on Jan. 6 in Frisco, Texas. They'll try to become the third-ever D-I team to go 16-0, which would equal records by 2019 NDSU and 1894 Yale. They'll have several key players run out of eligibility after this season, including quarterback Tommy Mellott, the Big Sky offensive player of the year, and defensive end Brody Grebe, the Big Sky defensive player of the year. Whether Vigen returns or parlays his success into another job has yet to seen. His departure could lead to anticipated returners hitting the portal. Montana leads the all-time series 74-43-5 but has gone 2-6 in the previous eight meetings. Frank Gogola is the Senior Sports Reporter at the Missoulian and 406 MT Sports. Follow him on X @FrankGogola or email him at . Get local news delivered to your inbox!
California to consider requiring mental health warnings on social media sitesNASSAU, Bahamas — Justin Thomas was long off the tee and made a few long putts on the back nine to overtake Scottie Scheffler with a 6-under 66 and build a one-shot lead Saturday over golf's best player going into the final round of the Hero World Challenge. Thomas is trying out a 46-inch driver — a little more than an inch longer than normal — that he previously used for practice at home to gain speed and length. He blasted a 361-yard drive to 8 feet on the par-4 seventh hole and led the field in driving distance. But it was a few long putts that put him ahead of Scheffler, who had a 69. Thomas was on the verge of falling two shots behind when he made an 18-foot par putt on the par-3 12th hole. On the reachable par-4 14th, he was in a nasty spot in a sandy area and could only splash it out to nearly 50 feet. He made that one for a most unlikely birdie, while behind him Scheffler muffed a chip on the 13th hole and made his lone bogey of a windy day. People are also reading... Scheffler never caught up to him, missing birdie chances on the reachable 14th and the par-5 15th. Thomas hit his approach to 3 feet for birdie on the 16th after a 343-yard drive. Scheffler made an 18-foot birdie putt on the 16th to close within one. Scheffler missed birdie chances on the last two holes from the 10-foot and 15-foot range, while Thomas missed an 8-foot birdie attempt at the last. "I had a stretch at 13, 14, 15 where I felt like I lost a shot or two there, but outside of that I did a lot of really good things today," Scheffler said. Thomas hasn't won since the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills, and a victory at Albany Golf Club wouldn't count as an official win. But the two-time major champion has made steady progress toward getting his game back in order. "I'm driving it great. I've had a lot of confidence with it," Thomas said of his longer driver. "I feel like I've been able to put myself in some pretty good spots going into the green. I'm still not taking advantage of some of them as much as I would like, but that's golf and we're always going to say that." Thomas was at 17-under 199 and will be in the final group Sunday with Scheffler, who is trying to end his spectacular season with a ninth title. Tom Kim put himself in the mix, which he might not have imagined Thursday when he was 3 over through six holes of the holiday tournament. Kim got back in the game with a 65 on Friday, and then followed with 12 birdies for a 62. He had a shot at the course record — Rickie Fowler shot 61 in the final round when he won at Albany in 2017 — until Kim found a bunker and took two shots to reach the green in making a double bogey on the par-3 17th. Even so, he was only two shots behind. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley (68) was four back. "Feel like I've been seeing signs of improvement, which is what you want and that's all I can do," Thomas said. "I can't control everybody else or what's going on, I've just got to keep playing as good as I possibly can and hope that it's enough come Sunday." Get local news delivered to your inbox!