Because of the nature of the sport, golf doesn't lend itself to real rivalries. For one to formulate organically, two players have to go head to head on the course, preferably on Sunday, multiple times. The odds of that happening are often slim at best.
But Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka are doing their best to create a rivalry off the course. The two have had a war of words that dates back to last January, when Koepka called out DeChambeau for slow play on a podcast following DeChambeau's victory last January at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic. Then there was the impromptu meeting between the two at the Northern Trust in August, another event DeChambeau's deliberate pre-shot routine came under fire on social media. At the time that seemed to be the end of it.
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Nearly 14 years removed from his fourth and final PGA Tour win, Tim Herron has made it clear he's ready to move onto the senior circuit. “I’ve been looking for the promised land all summer,” Herron joked in November. And as the big five-oh creeps closer, the golfer better known as “Lumpy” has even created a fantastic hype video around his upcoming career transition.
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Not surprisingly, it involves the self-deprecating player making fun of getting older in hilarious fashion. Check it out:
https://twitter.com/PGALumpy/status/1217462653473501184
The music. The slow-mo. The reading glasses. The celebratory dance. Absolute perfection.
The PGA Tour Champions is adding another good player—and quite a character—come Feb. 6. Long live Lumpy.
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It's been a pretty lousy week for baseball. First of all, there was no baseball. Generally that makes life a little less good. Second of all, the headlines were dominated by the culmination of the sports' biggest crisis since the BALCO scandal. On Monday, the MLB handed down punishment to the Houston Astros for their elaborate sign stealing scheme, suspending manager A.J. Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow for an entire season, docking first and second round picks the next two years, and fining the team $5 million actual U.S. dollars. Within hours, the Astros had fired Hinch and Luhnow—the architects of a perennial 100-win roster—and on Tuesday the Red Sox followed suit, axing Alex Cora before league penalties had even been announced. Next on the list of casualties? Potentially Mets' manager Carlos Beltran, who hasn't even coached a single game for the Flushing franchise yet. Dark days, indeed.
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Stuart FranklinYou gotta give Scott Van Pelt credit for being able to get Tiger Woods on the phone. Getting the 15-time major champ to come on a podcast, though? That's a different story.
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For the second time, the SportsCenter host attempted to corral the Big Cat—who is the white whale of the podcast community—for a phone interview. And for the second time, SVP was politely turned down. Here was the short, but humorous exchange between the two friends:
SVP: “TW!”
TIGER: “Hey SVP, I'd love to help, but today's a big short game day, and I think you remember the last podcast you called me out of the blue. . .”
SVP: “Oh, yeah. . .”
TIGER: “Yeah, so, with that in mind, I'm going to pass and I will see you at Augusta. Later. Out.”
SVP: “Alright, so we're 0 for 2.”
Hey, it was worth a shot. Anyway, here's the clip:
https://twitter.com/TWlegion/status/1217283786918047745
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The last time we saw Thor, he was looking little rough. No, we're not talking about bearded, buddha-bellied Avengers: Endgame Thor. We're talking about his Flushing doppelgänger Noah Syndergaard, who finished a bumpy 2019 with a 4.28 ERA and 1.234 WHIP, both career highs. But don't worry, red-blooded baseball fans of America, this is the part of the program where we get to the good stuff, and the good stuff is this video of Noah Syndergaard getting absolutely Marvel-movie shredded ahead of the 2020 MLB season. We don't care who you love, how you identify, or what you're into, if this video doesn't move the, ahem, needle, then you're probably lying in a drawer at the county morgue.
https://twitter.com/SNYtv/status/1217124113245986816
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