MEXICO CITY (AP) One of the intriguing aspects of the Mexico Championship is the thin air and the long ball.

Chapultepec Golf Club is approaching 7,800 feet above sea level, making it the highest altitude most of the players in this World Golf Championships event will see all year. The Joburg Open was close to 6,000 feet above sea level. The Barracuda Championship in Reno, Nevada, is about the same.

But that’s not what wins the tournament.

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Just ask the defending champion.

Dustin Johnson still smiles at one of the best shots he hit all year – a sand wedge. His lead was down to one shot when Tommy Fleetwood made birdie on the 18th hole, and Johnson tugged his tee shot into a wicked spot in the bunker.

”The ball was below my feet. It was not sitting great,” Johnson said. ”And I didn’t really have anywhere to miss it coming out of where I was. It was either hit a good shot or I was probably going into a playoff.”

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As exciting as it is that Spring Training is here and baseball season is within reach, it's a reminder that none of these games matter until Opening Day. This next month is going to be especially hard for New York Yankee fans, who are already screaming “28 RINGS” from the mountaintop at the mere sight of Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge side by side. And, I mean, how can you not …
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But, before Wednesday, they hadn't even batted in the same lineup together. That changed when the lineup card came out ahead of their Grapefruit league matchup with the Detroit Tigers:
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Oh baby, what time is Game 1 of the World Series in the Bronx!?? Only question is if Tanaka or Severino gets the start.
Ok, Ok, pump the brakes. Naturally, Judge struck out in his first at-bat, while Stanton followed with a single, putting the creation of their Monument Park plaques on hold for the time being. After Stanton, ..

After a surprisingly good start to the season, things have not surprisingly fallen apart for the New York Knicks. Franchise cornerstone/unicorn Kristaps Porzingis tore his ACL earlier this month and the team, according to fivethirtyeight.com, has virtually no shot of making the playoffs. Not that it would matter. Without Porzingis, there's a better chance of Tim Hardaway Jr. winning NBA MVP than the Knicks getting out of the first round.
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In any event, the most entertaining thing to come from this latest lost season at Madison Square Garden was the reaction by Jon Stewart during the team's latest loss to the Golden State Warriors on Monday. After Golden State's JaVale McGee hit a fadeaway jumper — we're pretty sure it's the first non-dunk field goal of his NBA career — cameras caught Stewart with his hands on his head in utter disbelief. Have a look at the look that quickly became an Internet meme:
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En route to winning the National Invitational Tournament in Tucson, the UNLV men's golf team completed a truly unique statistical oddity.

Like my colleague Joel Beall pointed out on Monday with that feel-good Iowa free-throw story, there is still some hope for this great nation of ours. This latest, tear-jerking story courtesy of the Jacksonville State men's basketball team further confirms that notion.
Nobertas Giga, the Gamecocks' Lithuanian seven-foot senior center, has been on quite the journey since arriving in America in 2013. After spending his final season of high school at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, N.J, Giga was off to Florida State University to play for the Seminoles. Only he never did, instead spending a year at Tallahassee Community College, where he got in a little trouble with the law and ended up transferring to Midland College in Texas. Finally, he made his way to Jacksonville State, where he's been a huge contributor, starting over 60 games in the last two years. Like I said, quite the journey, and during that time the poor guy hasn't even seen his mother.
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Way back in December, we introduced you to Chad and JT, two 21st-century patriots who vent viral for their opposition to a new Los Angeles city council initiative to crack down on house parties in the Hollywood Hills. Exercising their right as American citizens and relying on experienced gained during a recent campaign to erect a Paul Walker (RIP) statue on the San Clemente pier, the pair—clad in “Bacon” beanies and Hawaiian shirts with ties—became instant heroes, racking up over half-a-million views on YouTube and logging appearances on major “news” networks like Fox “News” in the process.
Unfortunately, their righteous pleas went unheeded, and last week the LA City council passed its proposed house party ban like the dickhead principal in some John Hughes movie. Never ones to back down from a fight, however, on Tuesday Chad and JT returned to court to express their disappointment and disillusionment with the American political machine. Two minutes of pure liquid gold ensued:
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Everybody has that “one that got away” in their lives, but five Shark Tank judges share the same tale of regret. And it's not a person, but a product. Ring.
Perhaps, you've heard of this budding brand. Perhaps, you even own one of its WiFi enabled video doorbells. But if you do, just know that none of the Sharks got a single cent of your money because they all passed on investing when they had a chance. Talk about having egg on your face. Hey, how about that for a product? An egg that attaches to someone's face. You know, as a joke or a prank? Sounds fun, right? No? Damn it. Someday, I'll be on that show. Someday. . .
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Anyway, Ring was in the news on Wednesday when news broke that Amazon bought the company for “more than $1 billion.” Yep, that's billion. One BILLION dollars.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) Tiger Woods is bigger than ever in golf, and he already was plenty big when he was winning at a rate never seen.

The Honda Classic broke its attendance record last week with a confirmed 224,624 spectators over seven days. The tournament attributed the record increase to the return of Woods and the drama of a sudden-death playoff won by Justin Thomas.

It could have stopped after Woods. Not even Thomas would argue with that.

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Television ratings for the Honda Classic were up 43 percent from the previous year, when Rickie Fowler won.

No surprise there, either.

Woods no longer moves the needle in golf. He is the needle.

Even when he finishes 12th.

What made Woods so compelling at PGA National was that he was only four shots behind going into the weekend, and that on the toughest course of the season – more than a full shot harder than the next one – Woods never shot worse than 71.

He still finished eight shots behind and was never closer ..