The European Tour's two-player team event—complete with shot clock—will expand to include wildcard duo and women's teams

As far as Mondays go, Noah Syndergaard had himself a pretty good one. Returning to ace status for first time since tearing his lat last April, Thor—God of Thunder, Son of Odin—took to the mound in Port St. Lucie on Monday afternoon for two perfect innings of seam-searing insanity, including a first inning that clocked in like this…
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a 100-mph heater that put George Springer on 15-second lip-reader delay…
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and this steeee-rike that sent reigning AL MVP Jose Altuve to the showers pondering the meaning of life.
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For Mets fans, fantasy owners, and self-professed fans of capital-P Pitching (you know who they are, because they never shut the f—k up about it), this is all very good news. For everyone else, Syndergaard saved the best for last, reportedl..

The 2018 Winter Olympics just ended, but while the festivities were wrapping up in PyeongChang, a potential new sport was thrust into the limelight. Introducing skateboarding pole vault. And yes, it's as awesome as it sounds.
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Thanks to Deadspin for unearthing this gem from this weekend's All-Star Perch pole vaulting competition. Admittedly, we were unaware of such a competition. In fact, we were unaware that there were even specialized pole vault competitions. Rock on, pole vaulting. Anyway, enjoy:
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As you can see, French pole vaulter Baptiste Boirie (easily) cleared the bar at 5.9 meters. That's 19.357 feet to us dumb Americans who haven't converted to the Metric System yet. And that's pretty close to the actual pole vault world record of 6.16 meters, which is h..

The latest Golf Digest Podcast discusses the reasons this time is different for Tiger Woods

Icon Sportswire(Photo by Steven King/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)It's been a tough few weeks for our nation. One glance at the news or Twitter will confirm. So here's the rare item that delivers hope.
With his team nursing an eight-point lead against Northwestern this weekend with two minutes remaining, Iowa guard Jordan Bohannon missed a free throw, one that would have given him the school record for most consecutive shots made from the charity stripe. However, after his miss, Bohannon pointed to the sky. For he had missed the foul shot on purpose in order to preserve the mark of Chris Street, who died in a car accident in 1993 while the streak was ongoing.
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“Obviously, that's not my record to have; that record deserves to stay in his name,” Bohannon told the Big Ten Network. “I've heard a lot (about Street); I've been really close with his family these past couple years and gotten to know them a ..

David CannonBy the time Sunday's final pairing of Justin Thomas and Luke List reached the 18th hole at PGA National, a huge crowd had gathered to watch the finish. But thanks to a 14-time major champ playing a few groups ahead, the two leaders hadn't been the main focus of fans attending the Honda Classic. Not that Thomas minded. Or was surprised in the least.
“To be honest, I don't care. I'm sitting with the trophy, so I'm fine with it,” Thomas said. “I did say that to Jimmy, it's so weird, it was a good gallery, good crowd, but it wasn't obviously anything big. It wasn't anything remotely close to Tiger's. But he fully deserves that and he is the needle. He moves the needle. He's the reason probably why the attendance this week was as high as it was, and you know, they weren't coming out here to watch Luke List and Justin Thomas. They were coming out here to watch Tiger, so I don't blame them. I'd go watch him, too, ins..

Three Billboards Outside Cleveland, Ohio. No, that's not the porn parody of this year's Oscar-nominated Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, it's what commuters on I-480 just outside Believeland woke up to on Monday morning…
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A mysterious trio of advertisements designed to lure LeBron James to the City of Brotherly Love, the billboards—a back-handed power move by Pennsylvania's Power Home Remodeling—make their case with three simple selling points:
A new (literally) Big Three of Lebron/Simmons/Embiid.
The sultry allure of completing a process started by their fired GM who now teaches classes in Silicon Valley.
A hashtag, because this is 2018 and you have to have a hashtag.
When tracked down by ESPN's Darren Rovell, PHR co-CEO Asher Raphael had only this to say about the experimental use of company marketing funds:
“We're passionate about Philadelphia. We have an amazing city, it's
the b..

Lots of professions might see fit to relocate you—if Gary from sales wants to spot-reassign you to Grand Rapids, Mich., there’s not a lot you can do about it, even though Gary’s a fat sweaty jerk who wants you out of the office because he’s threatened by your success. But few employees are repositioned as speedily as our valuable professional athletes, who can be traded at a moment’s notice, without any warning all, to hypothetically someplace like Detroit, expected to suit up in a matter of hours and only notified because some 15-year-old retweeted SI’s hockey writer. (The world is awful.)
FacebookPinterestB BennettTo that end, today marks the NHL’s trade deadline, which means by 3 p.m. many of your favorite hockey players and other assorted Slovakians will be moving to entirely new environments (to say nothing of the rich-ticket MLB free agents who are watching spring training begin from the comforts of Scott Boras’s waiting room). But even hockey players are humans, and you can’t ju..

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) The U.S. Open is changing to a two-hole aggregate playoff, the last of the four majors to do away with an 18-hole playoff.

The change is takes effect immediately and would be used at Shinnecock Hills on Long Island in June if there is a tie after 72 holes. The U.S. Golf Association also decided to make its other three open championships two-hole playoffs – the U.S. Women’s Open, U.S. Senior Open and U.S. Senior Women’s Open.

The U.S Open has had 33 playoffs in its 117 years, all decided by 18 holes or more.

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”There was a time when they did make sense before television, before the modern era of wanting everything decided immediately,” said Mike Davis, chief executive of the USGA. ”There is no correct way to determine a tie in stroke play.”

The last U.S. Open playoff was 10 years ago at Torrey Pines, where Tiger Woods beat Rocco Mediate in 19 holes for his 14th major.

The Masters was the first major to abandon the 18-hole pla..

Thearon W. HendersonOn Saturday night, Warriors center Zaza Pachulia, in the process of pretending he was actually going to play basketball for a second, threw his 6' 11″ carcass softly to the Oracle Arena floor, a flop of Shakespearean proportions from the The Association's very own Tybalt. Typically, this wouldn't even be worth a hyperlink—Zaza is gonna Zaza, after all—but in the process of folding like an Origami swan, he accidentally, inadvertently, randomly just so happened to fall on Russell Westbrook's legs, reigniting a narrative that never really went away in the first place:
Zaza Pachulia is the dirtiest player in the NBA.
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So without, further ado/moral high-roading/rambling about how the Warriors, thanks to the ambulance-chasing dark-arts defense attorneys at Draymond & Zaza, have fast become the league's most unlikeable squad, we'll turn it over to some semi-legal YouTube highlights, which paint..