Danny Funt

Jan 4, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Danny Funt

What is TGL? Think indoor golf, in prime time, fronted by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, and geared toward television audiences. TGL, a new golf league featuring 24 of the world's top players - including Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, two of the venture's founders - devoted years of planning and tens of millions of dollars to a mission: Make golf viable for prime-time TV, with quick-moving matches that fit into tight two-hour windows.

Sep 14, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Danny Funt

Home / SportBy Danny FuntWashington Post·15 Sep, 2024 01:00 AM10 mins to readSaveShare this articleReminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read. Legal sports betting was supposed to put the black market out of business. Instead, even as regulated sportsbooks have become a ubiquitous part of the United States sports landscape, unsanctioned bookmakers continue to attract billions of dollars annually from Americans.

Sep 12, 2024 | yahoo.com | Danny Funt

Legal sports betting was supposed to put the black market out of business. Instead, even as regulated sportsbooks have become an ubiquitous part of the U.S. sports landscape, unsanctioned bookmakers continue to attract billions of dollars annually from Americans. That’s why regulators in six states where sports betting is legal recently ordered Bovada, a prominent offshore sportsbook based in Curaçao, to stop taking online bets from residents.

Sep 12, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Danny Funt

(Michael Domine/The Washington Post) By Danny FuntSeptember 12, 2024 at 7:01 a.m. EDTLegal sports betting was supposed to put the black market out of business. Instead, even as regulated sportsbooks have become an ubiquitous part of the U.S. sports landscape, unsanctioned bookmakers continue to attract billions of dollars annually from Americans.

Jun 17, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Danny Funt

PINEHURST, N.C. — Bryson DeChambeau spent much of the U.S. Open smiling toward his boisterous fans as they hollered words of encouragement. On the No. 9 tee box Saturday, the cheering died down for a moment while he stretched a nagging right hip. Then, one spectator’s voice boomed out. “Hey, Bryson! I’ve got a hundred bucks on you to shoot over 70.5 today!”This time, DeChambeau was stone-faced.