For content people, this past weekend was like an all-you-can eat buffet. Where do you even start? Duke-UNC. Bob Knight returning to Indiana. XFL kicking off. The Oscars. The Independent Spirit Awards (go watch Adam Sandler's speech right now if you haven't). Golf even provided it's fair share of chaos thanks to Phil Mickelson, who didn't even win at Pebble Beach. It was can't stop, won't stop, which allowed perhaps the best moment of the entire weekend to fly a bit under the radar.
That moment occurred early in the second half of the Stanford-Colorado game, when Colorado big man Evan Battey stole the ball and began barreling down the court. Battey, who stands at 6-foot-8 and weighs 262 pounds, drove to the hoop and was met by Stanford's Oscar da Silva. Da Silva fouled him hard, and the two collided and slammed down hard against the hardwood. Both players appeared to be shaken up, but Battey sat up immediately. Da Silva, who hit the floor head first a..

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David Cannon/Getty ImagesRory McIlroy and Erica Stoll at the 2016 Ryder Cup.This week’s Genesis Invitational features a loaded field with nine of the top 10 players in the world competing at Riviera Country Club, including new (again) No. 1 Rory McIlroy.
The 30-year-old Northern Irishman has come to enjoy spending time in Los Angeles over the years—in his two appearances in the tournament the last two years, he has finished T-20 and T-4. He also seems to like getting away from the course, moonlighting apparently as a tourist.
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That’s among the things you can glean in the second installment of a series of fantastic interviews McIlroy has done with Paul Kimmage of the Irish Independent, published on Sunday. In the piece, McIlroy discusses, among other things, taking on Tiger Woods at the 2018 Tour Championship, missing the cut at the Open Championship at Royal Portrush and winning the Players Championship.
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Streeter LeckaWe need fewer cliches in sports discourse, not more, and maybe I'm doing a disservice to the world by even making this argument, but after watching last night's Duke vs. UNC rivalry game at the Dean Dome in Chapel Hill, I can't help but tip my cap to a cliche I've been hearing since I was a kid: “When two rivals play, you can throw the records out the window.” It's an annoying concept because it rejects the true quality of a team based on measurable data like wins and losses, and appeals to mystic qualities of universal balance based on years of enmity and shared history. On a logical planet, it shouldn't be true. By now, it should be in the trash heap of cliches that have been neutered by time and knowledge. Instead, it's stronger than ever.
First, about that game: North Carolina is having a very, very bad season…obscenely bad, by their standards. Injuries and luck have played their part, but beyond lonely superstar Cole Anthony, the ..

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