Andrew Beaton
Sports Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
I cover the NFL and sports for @WSJSports; may occasionally tweet about chess. Email: [email protected]
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2 days ago |
wsj.com | Andrew Beaton |Jared Diamond
Established by the NFL and MLB players unions, OneTeam produced a licensing windfall. But federal agents are probing whether some of the money it generated for players was siphoned off by union executives. Six years ago, executives from the unions representing National Football League and Major League Baseball players hatched a radical idea to combine their valuable licensing assets into one single business.
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2 days ago |
wsj.com | Andrew Beaton |Jared Diamond
Within just a few years, players unions from other sports leagues were racing to sign on, and the company was valued at nearly $2 billion. But now OneTeam has been dragged into a federal investigation over whether some of the windfall it has generated for players was siphoned off by union executives, including MLBPA executive director Tony Clark.
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4 days ago |
wsj.com | Andrew Beaton
Scottie Scheffler has spent two years as the No. 1 golfer on the planet. But his game has reached new heights ever since he switched out his putter and fixed the only weakness in his game. Scottie Scheffler looks practically unstoppable these days. He just defended his title at the PGA Tour’s prestigious Memorial Tournament for his third victory in his last four starts, a run that includes last month’s PGA Championship. The last time he finished outside the top-10 was all the way back in March.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Andrew Beaton
Erin Hills had spent years trying to get recreational golfers to speed up their pace of play. The solution boiled down to a simple question: How far can you hit a 7-iron? As the head golf pro at Erin Hills, Jim Lombardo has spent years dreaming up new ways to speed up the pace of play at the world-class course. His staff even uses GPS devices to monitor the exact location of each group on the course to identify any stragglers who might slow things down. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Andrew Beaton
A seemingly innocuous tweak to the NFL rulebook nearly two decades ago wound up giving rise to the Philadelphia Eagles’ ‘Tush Push’ play—which league owners may now banWhen NFL officials gathered in early 2006 for some routine housekeeping, they didn’t think twice about streamlining a rule that hardly ever came into play. It had been over a decade since any offensive player had been flagged for improperly assisting the runner by pushing him.
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