With a round of 3-under 67, Tommy Fleetwood will take a one-shot lead over Brendan Steele into the final round of the Honda Classic, where PGA National has been the real winner through three days in South Florida.

Leaderboard: Fleetwood (-5), Steele (-4), Luke Donald (-3), Lee Westwood (-3), Daniel Berger (-2), Charl Schwartzel (-2), Sungjae Im (-2)

What it means: The 12th-ranked player in the world, Fleetwood, a five-time winner on the European Tour, is still seeking his first PGA Tour victory after four runner-up finishes. A victory Sunday would also give the Englishman his first win in the United States. Giving chase on Sunday will be Steele, the 54-hole leader who failed to close the Sony Open less than two months ago, Westwood, the 46-year-old who last month won his 25th European Tour title and is now seeking to end a 10-year PGA Tour drought, and Donald, the former world No. 1 who hasn't won anywhere in the world since 2013. As for just how difficult the Champion Course at PGA National is playing this week, there were 278 bogeys or worse from the 69 players in the field Saturday. Jason Dufner was the only player to make it through the golf course unscathed with a bogey-free 68. Fleetwood’s 5-under total is the highest 54-hole score to par this season by five shots.

Round of the day: Mac Hughes’ 4-under 66 tied for the round of the week and was the lowest score of the day by one. He made six birdies Sunday, including two on his last two holes, to move into red figures and jump from T-59 to a T-8 at 1 under par for the week.

Best of the rest: Fleetwood likewise made six birdies, including two on this last two. Through 54 holes, he leads the field in strokes gained: off the tee, and is second in strokes gained: tee to green, a recipe for success on a layout that, more than most, rewards quality ball striking and punishes those who miss fairways and greens.

Biggest disappointment: Playing in the day’s final pairing with Steele, J.T. Poston played his first four holes in 4 over par and finally signed for a 3-over 73 after a closing birdie at 18. Separately, seeking his first win since his U.S. Open triumph, Gary Woodland went from two off the lead 36-hole lead to six off the 54-hole lead with a 4-over 74 featuring two doubles, three bogeys and three birdies.

Shot (and celebration) of the day: Grayson Murray, from 151 yards at the raucous par-3 17th – cue the hat throw.

It was Murray's fourth ace on the PGA Tour.

WATFORD, England -- This had been coming.

It's easy to say that now, in the aftermath of this Premier League season's most astonishing result -- Watford 3, Liverpool 0 -- and with a song nobody could have predicted hearing back in August ("We've got super Nigel Pearson, he knows exactly what we need") reverberating around the Vicarage Road crowd. But Liverpool have not quite been right since the winter break and on Saturday, it finally caught up with them.

They were played off the park by a fast, physical, punchy Watford side and, while they will still collect their first league title since 1990 within a matter of weeks, this defeat will colour the rest of their campaign.

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Of course, this must be accompanied by a hefty dose of perspective. Liverpool went 44 top-flight games unbeaten dating back to Jan. 3, 2019, and notched 18 victories in a row this season. Every week the numbers have mounted up, causing jaws to drop and leaving little doubt that this is one of the best teams ever to have played in England's top flight. Liverpool still have a more than credible shot at the Premier League points record. But the notion of invincibility, of completing an entire season without defeat, holds a special allure -- particularly (and perhaps completely) in the eyes of supporters. In a season that has already given so much, it feels as if they have one less big target left to play for.

Not that Jurgen Klopp had any patience for such an idea after the match.

"I'm not bothered," he said when asked if he regretted seeing a potentially unbeaten campaign slide away. "Now we can play free football again. We don't have to defend, or try to break, a record. We must try to win football games again."

There was enough in those words to suggest that, with the title virtually in the bag, that big "zero" in the losses column had weighed down on his players to some extent. But the real significance of that is intangible. What we do know is that, over the past fortnight, there had been a laboured element to their play, a drop in intensity that came directly after their fortnight off. They've turned a marathon into a sprint this season but perhaps, both physically and psychologically, those final yards to the finishing line are still the hardest.

In two clear harbingers of what was to come, they were forced to scrape and scrap past two of Watford's relegation rivals, requiring a 78th minute goal from Sadio Mane to win at Norwich and then relying on a gift from West Ham's Lukasz Fabianski to tip the scales at Anfield on Monday. Eventually, those key moments will not combine in your favour and an off-day will be exposed for what it is, which is exactly what happened at Vicarage Road.

Watford, who managed to stretch Liverpool without turning the game into the kind of end-to-end battle that would surely have seen them lose, seized the initiative with their controlled aggression and speed down the wings. Liverpool are used to seeing matches settled by a lively Senegalese forward and the pattern repeated itself here: this time, though, it was Watford's Ismaila Sarr who twice finished smartly within six minutes early in the second half. Like Mane, the 22-year-old started out at local academy side Generation Foot before moving on to France with Metz; again like Mane, he looks cut out for a stellar career at the top level.

Ben Foster, who had to face few clear chances and was only really needed to deny an Andy Robertson strike after half-time, called Sarr a "crazy good talent" afterwards. Sarr missed crucial games against Aston Villa and Brighton, two more teams threatened by the drop, through injury either side of the winter break and perhaps they would have gained more than a point from those fixtures had he been available. He made the difference here, although a goal and assist for the indefatigable Troy Deeney were invaluable too, and Watford can now feel confident of seeing Pearson's revolution through to a happy conclusion.

"[Liverpool] are such an outstanding side," Pearson told broadcasters. "We had to get our performance right, as close to max as possible, and I thought we thoroughly deserved the win."

Watford's season is, in its own context, alive with possibility now, while Liverpool's risks taking on a slightly odd hue. They may still wrap the title up by mid-April, and the celebrations will be extensive and well deserved, but defeat in their Champions League last-16 tie against Atletico Madrid -- they are a goal down from the first leg -- would mean they essentially go into the campaign's final weeks with nothing to play for. There are worse problems, to put it mildly, but Klopp will be keen to devise ways of ensuring his side regain their spark before the final push.

"We don't think it's the biggest catastrophe in world football," he said. "Congratulations to Watford, well deserved: that should be the headline." It says everything about Liverpool's mind-boggling achievements from the past six months, and the novelty value of the no-show they turned out tonight, that the reports will probably read quite differently.

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Desmond Bane scored 23 points, including eight straight in TCU's tiebreaking run as the Horned Frogs upended No. 2 Baylor 75-72 on Saturday.

Bane made a long tiebreaking 3-pointer with 4:42 left that put the Horned Frogs (16-13, 7-9 Big 12) ahead to stay. After blocking a shot by Jared Butler, Bane then made a turnaround jumper before adding another 3 to make it 63-55 with just over three minutes left. That was part of a bigger 18-1 spurt that Bane had started with another 3-pointer.

Baylor (25-3, 14-2) lost for the second time in three games since winning a Big 12-record 23 games in a row. The Bears were the nation's No. 1 team when they lost a week ago to now-No.1 Kansas (26-3, 15-1), which is a game ahead of them in the league standings after beating Kansas State on Saturday.

This was only the third Big 12 game this season where Baylor, which is still in contention for its first Big 12 title and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, trailed in the second half.

PJ Fuller added 21 points for the Horned Frogs, while Jaire Grayer had 13 points and nine rebounds.

Butler and Freddie Gillespie both had 18 points while MaCio Teague had 13 for Baylor, the highest-ranked team to visit TCU since then-No. 1 Kansas in December 2003 -- before the Frogs were in the Big 12. Gillespie also had 17 rebounds.

TCU was up 68-55 after Fuller made two free throws with 1:19 left, although Gillespie's layup with nine seconds left cut the margin to three in the final 10 seconds before Diante Smith made two clinching free throws for the Frogs.

The Frogs were down by as many as 12 points in the second half, but shot 76.2% (16 of 21) from the field while scoring 54 points over the final 20 minutes.

BIG PICTURE

Baylor: It was the first Big 12 road loss this season for the Bears, who were allowing only 58.7 points a game. They were looking for their sixth series sweep this season, having started February with a 16-point home win over TCU. Baylor was coming off 19-point home win over Kansas State.

TCU: The Horned Frogs were playing without second-leading scorer RJ Nembhard and guard Francisco Farabello. This was their third win this season over a Top 25 team. They have beaten a higher-ranked team in coach Jamie Dixon's four seasons, with their win over then No. 1 Kansas in the Big 12 tournament three years ago.

POLL IMPLICATIONS

The Bears will certainly fall out of the top two spots for the first time in eight weeks. They are still a top-five team.

UP NEXT

TCU now plays the only team ranked higher than Baylor. The Horned Frogs are at No. 1 Kansas on Wednesday night.

Baylor plays its home finale Monday night against No. 22 Texas Tech.

TAMPA, Fla. -- New York Yankees star Aaron Judge underwent an MRI that came back negative and is scheduled for another test Monday as the team tries to determine the cause of his ailing right shoulder.

Manager Aaron Boone said Judge "was not right" while taking batting practice in an indoor cage Friday.

"We're in a holding pattern with it, just trying to figure out what exactly is going on," Boone said Saturday. "We"re trying to get our arms around if we can pinpoint something that's causing some of the discomfort. At this point we haven't found that."

Judge was shut down from hitting a week before spring training after experiencing soreness in the shoulder. The slugging right fielder had been scheduled to take batting practice on the field for the first time since being shelved this weekend.

While the Yankees are concerned about Judge, there were no worries over new ace Gerrit Cole.

Cole allowed two hits and struck out two over 2 2/3 scoreless innings against the Detroit Tigers in his second start Saturday.

Cole gave up his first hit with the Yankees, an opposite-field jam-shot single to Victor Reyes with one out in the first. Jordy Mercer hit a two-out single the other way in the second.

"I thought the command was better today," Cole said. "Able to throw the ball down when we wanted to and up when we wanted to. Threw one good changeup, a couple soft-serve changeups that were noncompetitive, but the slider was sharp in and out of the zone, and the curveball was good. It was good work."

Cole took the mound to begin the third inning after throwing just 24 pitches through two. He finished at 30, striking out two without a walk.

The right-hander struck out two and walked one over a hitless frame during his 20-pitch debut against Pittsburgh on Monday night.

Gary Sanchez caught Cole for the second time.

"We had a good routine today," Cole said. "Getting settled in the analytics and a whole new routine of how it's going to flow here. So, I was more comfortable with that today."

Cole signed a $324 million, nine-year contract as a free agent after going 20-5 with a 2.50 ERA and 326 strikeouts last season for the AL champion Houston Astros.

The expected opening day starter on March 26 at Baltimore anchors a rotation that has already had two setbacks.

Righty Luis Severino had a season-ending Tommy John surgery on Thursday.

"From the performance standpoint, obviously, it's a hit, but we have a lot of depth and we have a lot of good pitchers here," Cole said. "Every year we're always looking for a couple of overperformers. So, we get that out of the some guys this year, we'll be right where we need to be."

Left-hander James Paxton could miss the first two months of the regular season after having back surgery on Feb. 5.

The Yankees are looking to reach the World Series for the first time since winning the 2009 title. New York won 103 games and the AL East last year, swept Minnesota in the Division Series, then got knocked out by Houston.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

With great risk comes great reward in baseball, whether played on actual diamonds or the ones found in digital fantasy leagues. It's not a monumental challenge to assemble an 81-win team in Major League Baseball or finish fifth in your 12-team fantasy league. But who wants to be an also-ran?

At some point, every victor is going to have to risk something, take a chance on that delicious upside even when the benefits are far from guaranteed. Going through the ZiPS projections for 2020, here are some of my favorite high-upside gambles, for real life teams or in fantasy. This will also include the 90% and 10% projections for ERA and FanGraphs-blend WAR for pitchers, and average, OBP and slugging for hitters, as best- and worst-case scenarios for each player to give you a sense of the range of the risk for each of these 10 players.

Stories of strength and resilience abound as Jacob Riley, Molly Seidel, Abdi Abdirahman and Sally Kipyego join Rupp and Tuliamuk on the American team

The US Olympic marathon team was decided in thrilling style on Saturday as Galen Rupp and Aliphine Tuliamuk won the trial races in Atlanta to lead some surprise results.

Two-time Olympic medallist Rupp will be joined on the men’s squad by Jacob Riley and Abdi Abdirahman, while Tuliamuk’s women’s team-mates will be Molly Seidel and Sally Kipyego after the six athletes overcame the challenging hilly course and cold, windy conditions as well as their rivals to triumph in a ‘first three past the post’ selection battle.

Winning his second consecutive US Olympic trial marathon, Rio bronze medallist Rupp clocked 2:09:20 to finish 42 seconds ahead of the unsponsored Riley, whose comeback after injury issues saw him secure his first Olympic place.

Behind Rupp it was a close fight for the two other team places, with 43-year-old Abdirahman just one second back in third to make his fifth Olympics, while 2016 trials third-placer Leonard Korir just missed out this time, running 2:10:06 for fourth place.

The races featured many stories of strength and resilience, particularly in the women’s contest where Seidel secured the second women’s team place after clocking 2:27:31 on her marathon debut behind Tuliamuk’s winning 2:27:23, while Kipyego ran 2:28:52 to make her first Olympics for the USA after claiming 10,000m silver for Kenya in 2012.

Desiree Linden had been among the favourites going into the race but despite finishing strongly the 2016 Olympic seventh-placer couldn’t close the gap on Kipyego and finished fourth in 2:29:03.

“I actually still don’t believe that happened,” Tuliamuk, who was born in Kenya as one of 32 siblings and became a US citizen in 2016, told NBC.

“Making the Olympic team is my way of showing my gratitude to this beautiful nation that has given me so much.”

The 30-year-old, who is sponsored by Hoka One One, suffered a stress fracture in her femur last year before returning to finish 12th in the New York City Marathon in November. During her time out, she taught herself crochet and was wearing a self-made red, white and blue beanie after the race. During a previous injury in 2018, she drove for Uber to keep busy.

While Tuliamuk was continuing her return after injury, Seidel had her own comeback story. The 25-year-old former NCAA champion has spoken openly about the disordered eating and depression she experienced in the past and surprised herself with a debut marathon run in Atlanta which saw her gain a first Olympic place.

“I didn’t think I was going to be here,” said Seidel. “I’m still in shock right now.”

Kipyego has become a mother since winning Olympic and world medals on the track and she managed to hold off 2018 Boston Marathon champion Linden to ensure an Olympic return.

In Atlanta the quartet had formed part of a 23-strong group which went through eight miles in 45:57, with Laura Thweatt, Emma Bates and Emily Sisson having been among those to the fore.

The lead pack was reduced to 14 by the half-way point, which Thweatt led through in 74:38.

By 20 miles the group was down to seven, as Tuliamuk, Seidel, Kipyego, Linden and Thweatt were joined by Kellyn Taylor and Emma Bates with the the clock showing 1:53:03 at that point.

Tuliamuk and Seidel broke away and were together through 23 miles in 2:09:15, with Kipyego 22 seconds behind.

The 25-mile mark was passed in 2:20:29 before Tuliamuk made a move and started to pull away.

In the men’s race, which saw an early lead by 2016 trials fourth-placer Luke Puskedra, Dan Nestor and Brian Shrader pushed ahead and led by around 20 seconds at seven miles.

Shrader was ahead through 10 miles in 49:07, 14 seconds ahead of Nestor, as the 23-strong chase group, led by Galen Rupp, was a further 41 seconds back.

Shrader was 31 seconds ahead at half-way (64:53), while Nestor was caught by the chase group at around 14 miles. By 16 miles, Shrader had also been reeled in and Rupp led with 79:43 on the clock.

Rupp pushed on at the front and 20 miles was passed in 1:38:51, as Augustus Maiyo and local athlete Matt McDonald of the Atlanta Track Club were three seconds behind him, with Abdirahman another four seconds back.

Rupp continued to grow his advantage and went through 24 miles in 1:58:10, 54 seconds ahead of Abdirahman, Maiyo and Korir, but Riley was closing fast.

Riley, who was 15th at the 2016 trials but struggled with injury, was diagnosed with Haglund’s syndrome and required surgery in 2018 which led him to wonder if he would ever race as an elite again, came through to pip Abdirahman into third.

“Going into this race coach said you’ve got to be ready for every scenario,” said Rupp, who was previously coached by the now-banned Alberto Salazar but is currently working with Northern Arizona University coach Mike Smith.

There had been much discussion in the lead-up to the race on the impact of Nike’s carbon-plated shoes, but addressing that, Rupp added: “You can’t just put those shoes on anybody and they turn into Superman. I’ve trained really hard for this.”

Further down the field, McDonald finished 10th, former world track champion Bernard Lagat 18th, ultra star Jim Walmsley 22nd and many people’s pre-race favourite, Jared Ward, 27th.

The US team now has five months to prepare for the Olympic marathon races, which will take place in Sapporo on August 8 and 9.

Results can be found here.

FONTANA, Calif. – Saturday afternoon nearly saw a Hollywood ending to NASCAR Cup Series qualifying at Auto Club Speedway, except Clint Bowyer didn’t get the script.

Bowyer edged out hometown hero and seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson, who is in his final full-time season, for the Busch Pole Award ahead of the Auto Club 400 on Sunday at the two-mile oval.

The Stewart-Haas Racing veteran turned a lap of 40.086 seconds (179.614 mph) with the No. 14 Rush Truck Centers/Haas CNC Ford Mustang for his fourth career Cup Series pole and first of the season.

It’s Bowyer’s second pole in the last 13 races, dating back to last fall at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

While some said Bowyer may have benefited from a well-timed cloud on his lap, the Emporia, Kan., native was quick to disagree.

“I was freaking out actually that the sun kept coming out, because you know the track’s building temperature when that keeps happening,” Bowyer noted. “You could see in the SMT data that everyone kept getting looser and looser down in (turns) one and two, and I was no exception. I knew coming to the green was important. You try to stay up high, try to get up through the gearbox as well as you can, and that’s what made the difference down there in (turns) one and two. She just kind of slid in there and got loose and it stuck right there and away it went.

“The 48 (Johnson) … I was thinking that if it came down to getting beat by the last car on the race track, I was going to freak out. Sure enough, thanks to the SMT data, I saw him pull up by me getting into (turns) three and four and actually pass me,” Bowyer added. “I’m sure he wished he would’ve moved down on the front-straightaway a little bit more, but we got a pole, baby. I’m looking forward to tomorrow; it’s going to be a hell of a race.”

Johnson will join Bowyer on the front row Sunday, an important place considering his wife and daughters are the honorary starters for the event and one of his longtime friends is the honorary pace car driver.

“It’s super special. I wish we were one spot further ahead, though,” Johnson admitted. “Clearly, off of turn four, I ran a little more distance to the start-finish (line). It’s such a fine balance to try to understand how much you can open the wheel and let the engine run. Clearly, I did a little too much, but it’s just the competitor in me.

“This is a very special weekend for me and I can’t wait to see my girls up in the flag stand waving that green flag on Sunday.”

Alex Bowman and Kurt Busch will share the second row of the grid on Sunday, stacking three Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LEs between the Ford Mustangs of Bowyer and Kevin Harvick, who qualified fifth.

Aric Almirola, Joey Logano, Michael McDowell, Kyle Larson and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. completed the top 10 in qualifying at Auto Club Speedway.

Kyle Busch, the fastest Toyota driver in the field, starts 17th on Sunday. His Daytona 500-winning teammate, Denny Hamlin, rolls off from the 28th starting position.

Martin Truex Jr. was not permitted to take a timed lap after his No. 19 Toyota Camry failed pre-qualifying inspection three times. He will start from last in the 38-car field for Sunday’s 400-mile race.

Sunday’s Auto Club 400 goes green at 3:30 p.m. ET, live on FOX, the Motor Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, channel 90.

To view complete qualifying results, advance to the next page.

Tampa Bay Lightning center Steven Stamkos will miss six to eight weeks after he undergoes surgery Monday to repair a core muscle injury.

Stamkos has battled injuries this season, having most recently missed three games earlier this month due to a "lower-body injury."

The 29-year-old exited Tuesday's loss to Toronto after the second period and has not played since.

The approximate timeline for his return from surgery lines up with the start of the playoffs. The Lightning entered Saturday's games as the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference.

Stamkos has 29 goals and 66 points in 57 games.

Maximum Security, the first ever to be disqualified from first place in the Kentucky Derby for causing interference, won the first running of the Saudi Cup, the world's most valuable race.

Twice a winner in Grade 1 company since the Derby last May, Maximum Security and jockey Luis Saez finished ahead of Bob Baffert-trained Midnight Bisou and Saeed bin Suroor's Benbatl to win $10 million -- half of the race's $20 million purse.

Victory did not look likely for most of the nine-furlong contest at the King Abdulaziz Racetrack in Riyadh, as Pegasus World Cup hero Mucho Gusto traveled strongly into the lead by a few lengths.

Maximum Security gamely stuck to the task for Saez, but did not seem to be catching Mucho Gusto until he began to wander under Irad Ortiz Jr. close to home.

The Jason Servis-trained Maximum Security has also subsequently been bought into by Coolmore, while his original owners Gary and Mary West remain involved.

The New York Knicks and forward Maurice Harkless won't come to an agreement on a contract buyout, which means the coveted wing player remains unavailable to join a contender for the playoffs, league sources tell ESPN.

Several teams -- including the West-leading Los Angeles Lakers -- had interest in signing Harkless if he became available. The NBA has a Sunday deadline for players to be waived and become eligible for playoff rosters.

Harkless plans to finish the season with the Knicks, where he was sent at the February trade deadline in the Clippers' trade for Marcus Morris.

Harkless, 26, averaged 5.5 points and 4 rebounds for the Clippers in 22.8 minutes per game. He had 17 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists in the Knicks' loss on Thursday to Philadelphia.