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Don’t chase money, chase making a difference: Zscaler CEOEAGAN, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings waived cornerback Akayleb Evans on Saturday in another setback for their beleaguered 2022 draft class. Evans started 15 games last season, but he had been relegated to a special teams role this year after the Vikings added veteran cornerbacks Stephon Gilmore and Shaquill Griffin. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.
Bryson DeChambeau is 0-for-91 (and counting) in his ace chase. @brysondechambeau Thirteen days ago, Bryson DeChambeau published a 40-second video to his social channels. The reigning U.S. Open champion was standing in his driveway in shorts, a T-shirt and a Crushers (his LIV team) hat turned backward. By his feet was a hitting mat pinned down by dumb bells. Behind him, two stories of floor-to-ceiling glass that is the façade of his gleaming Dallas-area home. Out of the picture, on the far side of the house: an artificial green in DeChambeau’s backyard. A hole cut a few paces off the front edge of that green was the target for the shotmaking challenge DeChambeau was about to explain to his audience. “This is Day 1 of trying to make a hole-in-one over my house,” he says in the video. “And because it’s Day 1, I only get one ball.” The implication: If DeChambeau did not hole that shot — it looks to be approximately 100 yards — he’d come back on Day 2 for two more attempts, and on Day 3 for three more swipes, and so on. Alas, DeChambeau did not jar that first try, though he did come close, his ball landing a couple of feet in front of the hole before stopping about 18 inches past it. His stunt would live to see another day. And another. And another. And well, as of Sunday, DeChambeau still has not made an ace. He is now 0-for-91, albeit with more than a handful of shots that looked destined to drop before stopping just short of the hole or veering just right or left of it. A post shared by Bryson DeChambeau (@brysondechambeau) If DeChambeau’s swing has failed him, though, the internet has not. His now 13-part series has cumulatively driven more than 50 million views on Instagram, with millions of more eyes finding the videos on TikTok, YouTube and X. Among those following along is the comedian Bert Kreischer, who on Day 10 wrote in the comments, “Im way too invested – I’m now rooting for you to not get a hole in one so this doesn’t stop.” Added another commenter, “Day 10 of asking you to hit it straight into a window.” That’s an unlikely result; DeChambeau is far too skilled. But the mere prospect of a bladed shot undoubtedly is part of the videos’ allure. So, too, are all the agonizingly close misses. According to the National Hole in One Registry, the odds of a professional golfer making a hole-in-one are roughly 3,000 to 1 . But that stat isn’t particularly useful in this instance given DeChambeau is hitting the same shot over and over and from a distance much shorter than the length of most par-3s that pro golfers are accustomed to playing. Golf stats whiz Lou Stagner, who said he is “hooked” on DeChambeau’s quest, estimated on X that DeChambeau’s odds of holing out on any given driveway swing are about 1 in 175. Assuming those odds, Stagner computed that DeChambeau’s chances of making an ace by Day 10 were 27 percent; by Day 15, 49.7 percent; and by Day 30, 93 percent. Predictably, bookies also have set lines. On Thursday, Oddschecker handicapped the chances of DeChambeau holing a shot before Thanksgiving at -150, or 60 percent, and the odds of him breaking a window at +160, or 38.5 percent. Whatever DeChambeau’s chances, his latest made-for-virality escapade is yet more evidence that no player is more successfully bridging the gap between “Pro Golfer” and “YouTube Golfer” than the 31-year-old DeChambeau. One week, he might be smashing drives on the LIV tour or locking horns with Rory McIlroy at the U.S. Open, the next he might be blasting tee balls through cardboard or watching a Space X launch with Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. Speaking of the President-elect, DeChambeau’s attempt at breaking 50 with Trump as his sidekick has now garnered more than 13 million views on YouTube. Ace chases aren’t a new gag. The DP World Tour’s excellent social-media team has been orchestrating them for years, challenging its players to make a hole-in-one with 500 swings or fewer. Earlier this year Barstool Sports personality “Jersey Jerry” spun up his own ace chase when he hopped on a simulator and pledged not to leave before he jarred a tee shot, live-streaming every hook, slice and top. After 37 hours and 2,627 swings, the internet rejoiced when Jerry mercifully achieved his goal. DeChambeau’s challenge is something different, though, because (1) he has a finite number of attempts in each installment, and (2) with the metronome-like consistency of his mechanics, every swing could be the one. DeChambeau’s seventh swing on Day 13 certainly looked to be. That try landed just short of the hole before rattling the stick and bouncing in and out of the cup. ”Are you kidding me?” DeChambeau said, clenching his hands behind his head. “Oh my god, how does that happen?” Day 14 drops tomorrow. Perhaps one of DeChambeau’s tee shots finally will, too. Latest In News Golf.com Editor As GOLF.com’s executive editor, Bastable is responsible for the editorial direction and voice of one of the game’s most respected and highly trafficked news and service sites. He wears many hats — editing, writing, ideating, developing, daydreaming of one day breaking 80 — and feels privileged to work with such an insanely talented and hardworking group of writers, editors and producers. Before grabbing the reins at GOLF.com, he was the features editor at GOLF Magazine. A graduate of the University of Richmond and the Columbia School of Journalism, he lives in New Jersey with his wife and foursome of kids.
The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday committing wealthy historic polluters to $300 billion annually for poor and vulnerable nations that had demanded far more to confront the crisis of global warming. After two exhaustive weeks of chaotic bargaining and sleepless nights, nearly 200 nations banged through the contentious finance pact in the early hours beneath a sports stadium roof in Azerbaijan. Nations had struggled to reconcile long-standing divisions over climate finance. Sleep-deprived diplomats, huddled in anxious groups, were still revising the final phrasing on the plenary floor before the deal passed. At points, the talks appeared on the brink of collapse, with developing nations storming out of meetings and threatening to walk away should rich nations not cough up more cash. In the end -- despite repeating that no deal is better than a bad deal -- they did not stand in the way of an agreement, despite it falling well short of what they want. The final deal commits developed nations to pay at least $300 billion a year by 2035 to help developed countries green their economies and prepare for worse disasters. That is up from $100 billion now provided by wealthy nations under a commitment set to expire -- and from the $250 billion proposed in a draft Friday. That offer was slammed as offensively low by developing countries, which have demanded at least $500 billion to build resilience against climate change and cut emissions. A number of countries have accused Azerbaijan, an authoritarian oil and gas exporter, of lacking the experience and will to meet the moment, as the planet again sets temperature records and faces rising deadly disasters. Wealthy countries and small island nations have also been concerned by efforts led by Saudi Arabia to water down calls from last year's summit to phase out fossil fuels. The United States and EU have wanted newly wealthy emerging economies like China -- the world's largest emitter -- to chip in. The final draft encouraged developing countries to make contributions on a voluntary basis, reflecting no change for China which already pays climate finance on its own terms. Wealthy nations said it was politically unrealistic to expect more in direct government funding. Donald Trump, a sceptic of both climate change and foreign assistance, returns to the White House in January and a number of other Western countries have seen right-wing backlashes against the green agenda. The deal posits a larger overall target of $1.3 trillion per year to cope with rising temperatures and disasters, but most would come from private sources. bur-np-sct/lth/jjMajor stock indexes on Wall Street drifted to a mixed finish Friday, capping a rare bumpy week for the market. The S&P 500 ended essentially flat, down less than 0.1%, after wavering between tiny gains and losses most of the day. The benchmark index posted a loss for the week, its first after three straight weekly gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.2%, while the Nasdaq composite rose 0.1%, ending just below the record high it set on Wednesday. There were more than twice as many decliners than gainers on the New York Stock Exchange. Gains in technology stocks helped temper losses in communication services, financials and other sectors of the market. Broadcom surged 24.4% for the biggest gain in the S&P 500 after the semiconductor company beat Wall Street’s profit targets and gave a glowing forecast, highlighting its artificial intelligence products. The company also raised its dividend. The company’s big gain helped cushion the market’s broader fall. Pricey stock values for technology companies like Broadcom give the sector more weight in pushing the market higher or lower. Artificial intelligence technology has been a focal point for the technology sector and the overall stock market over the last year. Tech companies, and Wall Street, expect demand for AI to continue driving growth for semiconductor and other technology companies. Some tech stocks were a drag on the market. Nvidia fell 2.2%, Meta Platforms dropped 1.7% and Google parent Alphabet slid 1.1%. Among the market’s other decliners were Airbnb, which fell 4.7% for the biggest loss in the S&P 500, and Charles Schwab, which closed 4% lower. Furniture and housewares company RH, formerly known as Restoration Hardware, surged 17% after raising its forecast for revenue growth for the year. All told, the S&P 500 lost 0.16 points to close at 6,051.09. The Dow dropped 86.06 points to 43,828.06. The Nasdaq rose 23.88 points to 19,926.72. Wall Street’s rally stalled this week amid mixed economic reports and ahead of the Federal Reserve’s last meeting of the year. The central bank will meet next week and is widely expected to cut interest rates for a third time since September. Expectations of a series of rate cuts has driven the S&P 500 to 57 all-time highs so far this year . The Fed has been lowering its benchmark interest rate following an aggressive rate hiking policy that was meant to tame inflation. It raised rates from near-zero in early 2022 to a two-decade high by the middle of 2023. Inflation eased under pressure from higher interest rates, nearly to the central bank’s 2% target. The economy, including consumer spending and employment, held strong despite the squeeze from inflation and high borrowing costs. A slowing job market, though, has helped push a long-awaited reversal of the Fed’s policy. Inflation rates have been warming up slightly over the last few months. A report on consumer prices this week showed an increase to 2.7% in November from 2.6% in October. The Fed’s preferred measure of inflation, the personal consumption expenditures index, will be released next week. Wall Street expects it to show a 2.5% rise in November, up from 2.3% in October. The economy, though, remains solid heading into 2025 as consumers continue spending and employment remains healthy, said Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY. “Still, the outlook is clouded by unusually high uncertainty surrounding regulatory, immigration, trade and tax policy,” he said. Treasury yields edged higher. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.40% from 4.34% late Thursday. European markets slipped. Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 0.1%. Britain’s economy unexpectedly shrank by 0.1% month-on-month in October, following a 0.1% decline in September, according to data from the Office for National Statistics. Asian markets closed mostly lower.