CSB - While you were sleeping - June 20

Producer Mark runs you through what you missed while you were sleeping.

• Tiger Woods  has been granted a lifetime exemption to compete in what have been termed the PGA Tour's eight "signature" golf events.
• Euro 2024 update
• Cricket World Cup update
• Former grand slam tennis champions Naomi Osaka, Caroline Wozniacki, Angelique Kerber and Emma Raducanu have been awarded wild cards for Wimbledon.

• NBA news.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
While you were sleeping. Yes, good on to sports fans
and happy Thursday. Starting off with golf and Tiger Woods
has been granted a lifetime exemption to compete in what
has been termed the PGA Tour's eight Signature golf events.
The body has announced the honor and recognition of woods
joint record eighty two victories on the American based circuit.

(00:22):
The forty eight year old has effectively had the category
created for him by virtue of his past achievements. Woods
has played in four tournaments this year, missing the cut
at the PGA Championship in May and the US Open
last week. To the euro Euro twenty twenty four creation.
Albania have drawn to All in Hamburg, a result that
could make it difficult for both to advance beyond Group B,

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which also includes Spain and Italy. Germany have just beaten
Hungary at two nil, and that was in Stuttgart and
then at seven this morning. Scotland up against Switzerland to
the Cricket World Cup and South Africa have top palled
the United States by eighteen runs after posting one ninety
four for four and they're super eight at the T
twenty World Cup match that was an integer. At twelve

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thirty today, just after lunchtime, England and the West Indies
will go at each other the tennis now in former
Grand Slam tennis champions Namia Osucker, Caroline Wozniaki, Angelique Kerber
and Emma Radakan, who have all been awarded wild cards
for Wimbledon that gets underway in about ten days. Osaka
and Wazsniaki will play for the first time in five

(01:29):
years after becoming mothers. Twenty eighteen winner. Kerber has also
taken time away to start a family to Basketball News,
and the Detroit Pistons in the NBA have dismissed coach
Monte Williams after one season in charge. He was on
our listen to this sixth year, one hundred and twenty
eight million dollar contract. The franchise is now left to

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pay him out more than one hundred and sixty million
dollars to pop away his whiteboard, so can't coach and
he gets paid one hundred six million to do nothing.
Detroit's fourteen when sixty eight last record was the franchise worst,
and the season also included the longest losing streak in
NBA history of twenty eight games. Imagine that getting paid
one hundred and six million dollars to put your feet

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up