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NBC forced to make concession to R&A when it secured rights to The Open Kylee HansenFri, July 17, 2026 at 9:00 AM UTC 0 'The Open Championship' was forced upon NBC nearly a decade ago Credit:Getty Images NBC has broadcast the Open Championship for the last decade, but only after agreeing to a detail with the R&A before winning broadcast rights.

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NBC has broadcast the Open Championship for the last decade, but only after agreeing to a detail with the R&A before winning broadcast rights.

In order to broadcast the historic Open Championship, NBC Sports agreed as part of the contract that it would refer to the tournament strictly as either 'The Open Championship' or 'The Open,' not the ‘British Open' as many Americans call the tournament..

Since it was founded in 1860, the only aspect that has yet to change is the name of the tournament. The original tournament was played over three rounds of 12 holes by seven Scotsmen and just one Englishmen. They were competing for an incredible first place prize of a belt worth $33.73, not the $3.2 million up for grabs this year.

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In 2026, The Open is four rounds of 18 holes with a field of 156 of players who are all hoping to land the Claret Jug. And, with the exception of Ireland’s Pádraig Harrington, only Americans and Australians have won The Open at Royal Birkdale.

The confusion surrounding the correct title is long running and not a straight line of understanding. As the world of influence and athletics grew, many other ‘Opens’ were created.

Whether it was the Spanish, Italian, French, or was tied to a completely different sport, the names overlapped. Whatever people want to call it doesn’t really matter, as players look forward to competing in the oldest major in the sport and changing the style of their game.

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“Different style of play, I would say,” said Matt Fitzpatrick. “That's the big thing. Hopefully I've not peaked yet obviously, but I just think I'm doing a lot of good stuff this year. Short game's been really, really good, and so has my irons.”

Fellow European Tommy Fleetwood and maiden PGA Tour winner continued, noting the Open Championship is always great to compete in.

“It's obviously very, very special. I think for anybody that was lucky enough to grow up in the town of Southport,” said Fleetwood. “It's such a golfing town, and The Open at Birkdale holds such a special place in the area.

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“It's a dream just to be competing in an Open here, so I feel very, very lucky. Still have lots of memories from the 2017 Open here. Yeah, just excited for the opportunity to play in front of everybody.

“It's very rare to have an opportunity to play a tournament, let alone The Open, in the town where you grew up in front of fans that were all there to support you. Very excited.”

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Henrik Stenson ready for &x27;the ankle bracelet&x27; to come off, play PGA Tour Champions Adam Schupak, GolfweekThu, July 16, 2026 at 12:42 PM UTC 0 SOUTHPORT, England — Has it really been a decade since Henrik Stenson outdueled Phil Mickelson at Royal Troon in one of the great performances in Open Championship history? To Stenson, it feels like “9 1/2 at the most,” he cracked. “I mean, time flies, as we know, waits for no one. Sometimes it feels like it certainly was a decade ago. With other things, yeah, you feel like maybe it was a little more recent.

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SOUTHPORT, England — Has it really been a decade since Henrik Stenson outdueled Phil Mickelson at Royal Troon in one of the great performances in Open Championship history?

To Stenson, it feels like “9 1/2 at the most,” he cracked. “I mean, time flies, as we know, waits for no one. Sometimes it feels like it certainly was a decade ago. With other things, yeah, you feel like maybe it was a little more recent. At least when you hit a 5-iron to six feet to make it on the last, you probably feel like it wasn't that long ago.”

Stenson did just that on Thursday to close with birdie and shoot 2-under 68 at Royal Birkdale in the first round of the 154th British Open.

“Only one blemish on the card, a bit of a soft and stupid double bogey on 11 with a gap wedge in my hand that normally doesn't feel too good,” said Stenson, who would take four putts at the green. “Other than that, it was pretty good. Hit a lot of fairways and a lot of greens, which is kind of what the doctor ordered. I think with the benign conditions, they tuck the pins quite close to the edges on a lot of holes.”

Stenson, 50, defected to LIV Golf but was relegated after last season and has been paying his penalty with a one-year suspension from the PGA Tour before he can begin competing on the Champions Tour.

“So, from end of August, they removed my ankle bracelet, and I'll be out of that one-year probation,” he said. “I played the last LIV event 24th of August last year. So I'm kind of reinstated as a member, and I'm free to play PGA Tour sanctioned tournaments from the 25th of August this year.”

This week’s Open is just Stenson’s fourth start in nearly a year, which has lowered his expectations. He played his first senior event, finishing T-47 at the Senior PGA Championship and T-11 at the U.S. Senior Open. On the European Tour, he was T-20 at the Barbados Legends, and is ready to transition to the over-50 circuit.

“I'm playing some Champions events and some bits and pieces on the back end of the schedule. So I'll probably get to 13, 14 tournaments when it's all said and done at this point,” he said. “Could be something in Europe, and there will be one in Asia as well. Even if you're playing a little bit less of a schedule, you've still got to work on those air miles and make sure you're keeping gold status somewhere.”

Adam Schupak is a senior writer for Golfweek, covering the PGA Tour.

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Taylor Jenkins Reid Just Revealed Her Next Novel—Here’s the Exclusive First Look Adrienne GaffneyThu, July 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM UTC 0 A First Look at Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Next BookMichael Buckner/James Iacobelli After finishing her 2025 novel Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid really thought she was done for a while. The book, about the love between two astronauts in the ’80s, became a blockbuster hit (as had Daisy Jones & the Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Carrie Soto Is Back, and other Reid titles), and Reid had poured a great deal of herself into it.

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After finishing her 2025 novel Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid really thought she was done for a while. The book, about the love between two astronauts in the ’80s, became a blockbuster hit (as had Daisy Jones & the Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Carrie Soto Is Back, and other Reid titles), and Reid had poured a great deal of herself into it. Taking some quiet time felt sensible. “I was really creatively spent,” she tells ELLE in an exclusive interview. “I felt like I left it all out on the dance floor. I remember my agent saying, ‘Do you have anything?’ And me saying, ‘Nope, I don’t. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’m still thinking about [Atmosphere characters] Joan and Vanessa. I have nothing. Let me think and I’ll get back to you if I have anything, but don’t hold your breath.’”

It was in the shower, where her best thoughts occur, that a new idea finally came to Reid: “I just went, ‘Pool hustlers,’” she says. “For me, the question of whether to write a story or not is always this question of, ‘Do I see it?’ And I just saw it.” That vague image of pool hustlers eventually grew into the premise for her new novel, The Last Days of Vic & Coco, out March 2, 2027.

As Reid puts it, the story is about “two female pool hustlers on the road in the 1970s, tricking men out of their money. And in the summer of 1974, for reasons that will be revealed, they settle down in a small town called Canyonville, Arizona. And when they do, Vic starts to fall in love and Coco starts lying about exactly what she’s up to. And both of those things are going to send them on a collision course to realize that the gambit is up and they can’t continue this way any further.”

Reid admits she’d never before considered writing about pool, but she thanks her agent for drawing the game out of the depths of her mind. She explains: “I emailed my agent [when I had the idea] and was like, ‘Pool hustlers?’ That’s when I remembered—but maybe heard for the first time—that my agent is a nationally ranked pool player. I must have been told at some point and it was just living in my subconscious, but I forgot.” (This wasn’t the first time something like this had happened. Reid’s 2021 book Malibu Rising was about surfing in the ’80s. When she shared the idea, her manager reminded her that he had been a surfer in ’80s California.)

Reid has written books about astronauts, rock stars, surfers, and Golden Age actresses, but they all share a narrative thread. “I recognize this is going to sound cheesy: On some level, I do feel like these stories choose me,” she says. “I don’t have a choice. The pool hustlers idea comes to me, I go, ‘I have to write it. Whether anybody likes it or not, I have to write it.’”

Below, Reid shares further insights on the making of Vic & Coco—and reveals the cover design from James Iacobelli.

Courtesy of Atria BooksOn what she’s waited years to write about

What I saw [when I started writing] was that The Last Days of Vic & Coco was going to afford me the opportunity to do something that I’ve wanted to do my entire career. On some level, I have always known I will not be done [with my career] if I have not written at least one story about it. Finally, here was my moment to do it—and that is female friendship, the specific way that women platonically love one another and the devastation that only friendship can bring to somebody’s heart.

On the friendships that inspired Vic & Coco

I’ve been really blessed by having so many women in my life who feel like another part of my soul. They feel necessary for me to continue living. But those friendships are never simple. [In high school] I had a massive, massive crush on this boy named Colin. And one night we’re all at a party, and I see my friend Ashley and Colin talking, and I go, ‘Oh God, he loves her. He is not interested in me. He loves her.’ They are married now.

I talk to them every day; they are my best friends in the world. But Ashley was my friend, and she ended up with the boy that I was madly in love with, and I was beside myself. But you get over it because the friendship’s worth it. We look back on it now and laugh because Colin’s like a brother to me and the idea that I had a crush on him is absurd and he’s so clearly supposed to be with Ashley. But there are a lot of girls at 17 years old who don’t get over that. Ashley and I figured it out because of the depth of our love for each other. It’s a very long relationship that has lasted nearly a lifetime, and it was worth figuring out.

On the Vic & Coco cover

I’m not a visual thinker, so I never know what [cover designers] are going to come up with. [The publisher, Atria Books] sent two cover options and one of them is the image that stayed. They got it. They knew the vibe that we were going for and all we were doing was tweaking the font. For me to know that the cover so quickly captures what I was going for makes me feel like I did my job. I feel very heard and understood.

On her research process

I knew that I had a choice going down a rabbit hole of different pool players and the history of pool and the specifics. I’ve written books in the past where I learned absolutely everything about the topic. And for this book, I went, ‘I don’t think you’re reading this [to learn about pool]. You’re reading this book because you want to hang out in a dive bar in the 1970s in the desert with Vic and Coco.’

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Zendaya Wears Nothing Underneath Her Plunging Gold Blazer for Latest GoddessInspired Look Daisy MaldonadoThu, July 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM UTC 0 Credit: GettyThe Gist Zendaya wore a vintage Zuhair Murad Spring 2013 couture look for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The gold brocade ensemble featured a plunging peplum blazer and coordinating thighhigh slit skirt. The gilded look continues the actress’s Greek mythologyinspiredpress tour wardrobe for The Odyssey. If there’s one celebrity who never misses an opportunity to commit to a theme, it’s Zendaya.

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Zendaya wore a vintage Zuhair Murad Spring 2013 couture look for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

The gold brocade ensemble featured a plunging peplum blazer and coordinating thigh-high slit skirt.

The gilded look continues the actress’s Greek mythology-inspiredpress tour wardrobe for The Odyssey.

If there’s one celebrity who never misses an opportunity to commit to a theme, it’s Zendaya. Every press tour from the Emmy Award-winning actress has delivered plenty for fashion lovers to dissect, and The Odyssey has taken things to new heights—Mount Olympus, if you will. After stepping onto the New York premiere carpet in angel wings on July 14, she kept the mythological momentum going with another gold-clad look that felt fit for a goddess.

For her appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on July 15, Zendaya and her longtime stylist, Law Roach, reached into the archives, selecting a vintage Zuhair Murad couture ensemble from the designer’s Spring 2013 collection.

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The look felt right at home on this press tour, adding to her incredible roster of recent looks that have left us mere mortals entranced.

Rather than opting for a traditional gown, Zendaya wore a coordinating gold brocade jacket and matching maxi skirt. The jacket featured a plunging neckline and a sculpted peplum waist that created a beautifully defined silhouette, while intricate metallic embroidery gave the look its rich, armor-like finish. The coordinating skirt featured a thigh-high slit.

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Roach kept the styling monochromatic, letting the couture do the talking. She accessorized with a gold Rolex watch and Tiffany & Co. HardWear earrings. It wouldn’t be a Zendaya look without her go-to Christian Louboutin pumps, which she picked out in a metallic gold hue.

She wore her hair down in loose waves and kept her makeup looking glowy and bronzed to add to her ethereal appearance.

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The outfit was another clever nod to The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s ancient epic, in which Zendaya stars as Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and war. The film hits theaters on Friday, July 17.

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‘Today’ Ratings Shocker in Battle With ‘GMA’ & ‘CBS Mornings’ Martin HolmesThu, July 16, 2026 at 1:33 PM UTC 142 Robin Roberts, Savannah Guthrie, Gayle King GMA YouTube; Today YouTube; CBS Mornings YouTube Today‘s 24week win streak at the top of the morning news ratings has come to an end as Good Morning America topped the chart in total viewers for the week of July 6. According to AdWeek, citing Nielsen’s national live+sameday big data plus program ratings, ABC’s Good Morning America averaged 2.

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Today‘s 24-week win streak at the top of the morning news ratings has come to an end as Good Morning America topped the chart in total viewers for the week of July 6.

According to AdWeek, citing Nielsen’s national live+same-day big data plus program ratings, ABC’s Good Morning America averaged 2.809 million total viewers (24,000 more than Today) and 416,000 viewers in the coveted Adults 25-54 demographic for the week of July 6. This was up 1 percent in total viewers but down 9 percent in the demo compared to the week before.

Compared to the same period in 2025, GMA, co-hosted by Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, and Michael Strahan, was up 8 percent in total viewers and down 6 percent in the key demo.

NBC’s Today held onto the No. 1 spot in the demo with 599,000 viewers for the week of July 6 but dropped to second place in total viewers, averaging 2.785 million. This was down 1 percent in total viewers but up 5 percent in the demo compared to the week prior.

Year over year, Today, co-hosted by Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin, was up in both metrics, rising 18 percent in total viewers and 25 percent in the demo.

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Meanwhile, CBS Mornings averaged 1.617 million total viewers and 253,000 demo viewers for the week of July 6. Compared to the week before, the show was down 7 percent in total viewers and 12 percent in the demo, making it the only morning show to post week-to-week declines in both categories.

CBS Mornings,hosted by Gayle King and Nate Burleson, was also down year over year. The show dropped by 11 percent in total viewers and by 6 percent in the key demo. It was the only morning show to post declines in this yearly comparison.

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‘We turned over every single leaf’: Company selling &x27;Made in the USA&x27; Monopoly admits it cost twice as much to make — and they had to import the dice Clay HaltonThu, July 16, 2026 at 2:30 PM UTC 4 President Donald Trump has made expanding U.S. manufacturing a central pillar of his economic agenda (1), arguing that tariffs on imported goods will encourage companies to produce more products domestically, strengthen supply chains and create American jobs. One company that found itself caught in the middle of that strategy was board game maker WS Game Company.

‘We turned over every single leaf’: Company selling 'Made in the USA' Monopoly admits it cost twice as much to make — and they had to import the dice

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President Donald Trump has made expanding U.S. manufacturing a central pillar of his economic agenda (1), arguing that tariffs on imported goods will encourage companies to produce more products domestically, strengthen supply chains and create American jobs.

One company that found itself caught in the middle of that strategy was board game maker WS Game Company.

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After receiving a seven-figure tariff bill on imported games, the Massachusetts-based manufacturer set out to produce a special Monopoly edition (2) made in the United States to celebrate America’s 250th birthday.

But what seemed like a straightforward effort to create a board game in America quickly became an expensive undertaking. Over a year later, the project was finished, and cost twice as much to (2) make as it would have in China.

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WS Game Company CEO John Silva told NPR that when producing the special edition of Monopoly, the company couldn’t rely on a single manufacturer to produce nearly every component under one roof. Instead, it had to stitch together a network of U.S. suppliers for nearly every piece of the game.

A former Hasbro factory in Massachusetts printed the Monopoly board, Pioneer Packaging manufactured the tray for the Monopoly money and Stateline Industries in Indiana produced custom metal tokens shaped like American icons, including a cowboy hat, covered wagon and apple pie.

Even after sourcing nearly every other component domestically, the company still couldn’t find a U.S. manufacturer capable of producing 10,000 dice.

“We turned over every single leaf trying to find someone who would make 10,000 dice for us in the U.S.,” Silva told NPR (2). “It requires special machinery. It requires investment.”

The company ultimately imported the dice. Silva’s conclusion was that China’s manufacturing ecosystem, where suppliers for numerous components are concentrated in one place, remains difficult to replicate in the United States.

All the extra time spent manufacturing the board game caused the company to miss the first half of the nation’s 250th birthday selling season.

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Board games aren’t the only challenge of American manufacturing

The Monopoly experiment reflects a broader challenge facing companies trying to shift manufacturing back to the United States.

Earlier this year, Texas entrepreneur Ramon van Meer tested whether consumers would pay more (3) for an American-made showerhead after Trump’s tariffs increased his import costs. Building the product domestically would have raised its price by roughly 85%.

More than 25,000 shoppers visited the company’s website during the experiment. Roughly 600 purchased the imported version, while none bought the more expensive American-made model, suggesting many consumers still prioritize price over domestic production.

Manufacturers with long-established U.S. operations have encountered similar limitations.

The Wall Street Journal reported (4) that Idaho storage-system maker Decked sources about 95% of its materials domestically, but still relies on imported ball bearings because no U.S. supplier can match overseas pricing and availability. Medical-device maker CorVent Medical has also shifted much of its supply chain back to the U.S. but continues importing electronic components that are difficult to source domestically.

The toy industry faces an even steeper challenge. Nearly 80% of toys and games sold in the U.S. are manufactured in China (2), where decades of investment have created specialized factory networks that are difficult to replicate elsewhere. Greg Ahearn, president and CEO of The Toy Association, told NPR that while reshoring may make sense for strategically important products, it is much harder to justify for toys because of their relatively low profit margins.

For Silva, the experience underscored both the promise and the practical limits of domestic manufacturing. Despite successfully producing an American-made Monopoly edition, he told NPR the rest of WS Game Company’s games will continue to be manufactured in China as the company prepares for the holiday shopping season.

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US Mint releases bellshaped America 250 coin, priced north of $19,000 Nicole Fallert, USA TODAYThu, July 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM UTC 37 This isn&x27;t your average pocket change. A collectible coin in the shape of the Liberty Bell priced at nearly $20,000 was released Thursday, July 16, by the U.S. Mint. Two cheaper versions, the halfounce gold coin ($10,050) and the halfounce silver medal ($750), were released as well. The pieces are the first nonround coin released in recent U.S. history, according to the Mint.

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This isn't your average pocket change.

A collectible coin in the shape of the Liberty Bell priced at nearly $20,000 was released Thursday, July 16, by the U.S. Mint. Two cheaper versions, the half-ounce gold coin ($10,050) and the half-ounce silver medal ($750), were released as well.

The pieces are the first non-round coin released in recent U.S. history, according to the Mint. The coins were released in a limited quantity (2,026 of each variation) due to the "high level of detail and precision required to produce each coin," the Mint notes.

Less than an hour after their release at 12 p.m. ET, all three coins were listed as "currently unavailable" on the Mint website. USA TODAY has reached out to the Mint for more information.

List of Liberty Bell America 250 coins

Here are the three commemorative products made available July 16 by the Mint, all in the shape of the Liberty Bell:

1-ounce gold coin ($19,600)

Half-ounce gold coin ($10,050)

Half-ounce silver medal ($750)

A distinct design

The non-round coin is "uniquely-minted" for 2026, according to the U.S. Mint, as part of the nation's 250th anniversary celebration. The semiquincentennial edition features the Liberty Bell on one side with the words "Liberty," and Independence Hall on the reverse side, bearing the words "In God we trust." It also features the years 1776 to 2026 to mark the nation's special birthday.

The composition of the 1-ounce gold coin is 99.99% gold and is 0.167 inches thick with smooth edges, according to the Mint's posting.

"Years of planning and innovation have culminated in this unique coin," the Mint website reads.

Member of coin advisory committee says design should've gotten congressional review

Donald Scarinci, the longest-serving current member of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, which advises the Secretary of the Treasury on coin and bullion production and design, says the Liberty Bell-shaped coin design was never presented to the CCAC. This is a process that is required by law when making new coins, bullion or medals for commemoration, circulation or awards.

"Congress should review how this coin came to exist," Scarinci told USA TODAY. "It is a complete mystery to the members of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee. We saw this product along with the rest of the public for the first time when the Mint's press release was published. Not even the concept of this coin had ever been discussed with us. "

USA TODAY has reached out to the U.S. Department of the Treasury for comment.

Liberty Bell coins are 'speculative asset'

These coins are part of three limited batches: Only 2,026 of each variation were produced. The U.S. Mint website says the scarcity of the special coin is due in part to the process of making such a distinctive design.

"Owing to the high level of detail and precision required to produce each coin, the Freedom Ringing – Liberty Bell Gold Coins were uniquely minted for 2026 in limited quantities," the U.S. Mint says on its posting of the coin.

It's an "speculative asset," says David Freund, professor of history at the University of Maryland. With the 1-ounce gold coin's high price tag of $19,600, "[no one] who purchases it is going to use it for spending," he says.

Given that the value of the coin won't be tied to an actual dollar value, it could be hard to predict how much it will be worth in the future.

"There's just no way to predict the future sales price of collectors' items," Freund says. "The value of these coins won't have any fixed relationship to the value of dollars issued into circulation by the U.S. government."

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