TruliaWidely considered the greatest hockey player of all time, Wayne Gretzky is apparently a savant when it comes to real estate as well. At the height of the housing bubble in 2007, the Great One sold his Thousand Oaks (Calif.) mansion to Lenny Dykstra for $18.5 million. Now more than a decade later, the Los Angeles Times confirmed Gretzky bought back the property for $5 million less. That's a pretty sweet profit on a really sweet pad.
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This latest transaction was made possible in large part by Dykstra's well-documented financial struggles. The former MLB All-Star declared bankruptcy shortly after acquiring the house and wound up losing it to foreclosure. Since then, the property has changed hands a couple times, first being scooped up at an auction in 2010 by an investment group.
But now it once again belongs to Gretzky, who according to the Times sold another house in the same neighborh..

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Tiger Woods is returning from his post-Masters break at the Wells Fargo Championship next week.

It will be his first time playing at the Quail Hollow Club since he missed the cut in 2012. Woods won the tournament in 2007.

Woods announced Thursday he will be playing consecutive weeks at the Wells Fargo Championship and The Players Championship. It will be the third time since returning from back surgery that he plays back-to-back weeks.

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Woods tied for 32nd at the Masters, failing to break par until the final round.

Since returning from a fourth back surgery, he has missed only one cut in the six tournaments he has played. Woods was runner-up by one shot at the Valspar Championship.

Good news and bad news this week for Miami and fans of ghoulishly oversized Dad-From-Stranger Things eyewear. The good news: Local hero Pitbull is planning a massive 2019 tour. The bad news: Mr. Global Warming Worldwide How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck Biggity Boy Diggity Dog will have a co-headliner. The confounding news: The co-headliner is Tony Robbins, and the two will be … motivational … speaking? Together? Motivationally? Helping us learn the subtle art of not giving a f**k, and awakening the giant within? Ugh, look this shit was not OK when Andrew WK did it, and we liked one of his records. Happily, we at The Loop, having committed ourselves to the intersection of golf and pop-rap self-help, have obtained a transcript from Pitbull’s performance, which we present to you here in its iggity entirety:
WHAT’S UP LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AND DALE (wait for applause)!
Thank you, thank you. I am your host, Pitbull (wait for applause), and I am thrilled to include (name of city) on my ..

Here at The Loop, we see unbelievably bad sports tattoos every day. It's just one of the many crosses we bear in our effort to bring you the most random sports content on the internet. For example…
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FacebookPinterestFacebookPinterestThat said, we have never seen anything or anyone quite like Maurício dos Anjos, a 33-year-old fan of Brasileirão soccer club Flamenco, who recently got his team's jersey tattooed across his ENTIRE FREAKING TORSO. But don't worry, at least his nipples don't look weird now or anything (just kidding, they look superrrrr weird):
FacebookPinterestRequiring over 32 sessions and 90 hours—plus the sale of a motorcycle to raise funds, because obviously this dude had a motorcycle—the permanent Flamenco home strip was completed over the course of several months, during which time, according to an interview with Vice, dos Anjos had a falling out with the original tattoo artist for one of pr..

Justin Rose takes off pants, braves gator-infested waters to hit golf shot in first round of Zurich Classic

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156 golfers will tee it up at the 2018 U.S. Open. But getting to the Southampton property is a competition in itself.

It wasn't quite as badass as Michael Jordan's shrug or even Desmond Howard's Heisman pose, but Jordan Spieth's “Go get that!” shout after dropping an eagle during last year's Open Championship run became an iconic moment the instant those words left the Texan's lips.
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And, though never duplicated, such classics are often replicated. Which is why Ryan Palmer, partner to Spieth at this week's Zurich Classic, repeated the three-time major winner's famous line after holing out for birdie at TPC Louisiana's 16th hole on Thursday morning:
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A funny scene, albeit one that makes us sad. Because as nice as that is, can you imagine Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson teaming up at this event, with Phil busting out Big Cat's patented fist pump? It would cause either the biggest smile from Woods or start World War III. Hey, there's always next y..

Coming into the NBA Playoffs, the Utah Jazz and their star rookie Donovan Mitchell were playing with house money. Mitchell already put together an NBA ROY-worthy season, and even though the Jazz had earned the 5-seed and had a good enough team to compete with Oklahoma City, most of us expected the Thunder to advance in a hard-fought series.
Fast forward 10 days and the Jazz found themselves leading the series 3-1, dominating in all three consecutive victories after a game one loss in OKC. Suddenly, the Jazz were now the favorite, and with Mitchell backing up his fantastic rookie year with an even better playoff performance (26.6 points per game), Utah was skating into round two. On Thursday night, it quickly became a foregone conclusion when the Jazz took a commanding 25-point lead in a close-out game five. Then Russell Westbrook happened.
As we now know, the Jazz went on to collapse in epic fashion, and that house money has now shifted into mounting pressure as they head back home for..