Will NewtonMan, what a bummer. You've just had your breakout postseason, one that will put you up alongside Ronald Acuna Jr. in the best-young-player-in-baseball discussion. You just broke the Nationals' postseason duck, jumpstarting a three-run comeback in the 8th inning of the NL Wild Card before navigating the NLDS and CS with ease on the way to your city's first World Series berth since Teddy Freakin' Roosevelt. And yet, while all your teammates, co-workers, and peers are hooking themselves to a Budweiser IV to celebrate, you're stuck drinking Welch's sparkling white grape juice because you don't turn 21 until next week. Thus is the predicament of Juan Soto.
Now, there's nothing particularly wrong with Welch's sparkling grape juice (though we'd opt for Martinelli's sparkling cider), but this is how the 21+ Nats celebrated their first-ever NL Pennant last night…
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NurPhotoBrooks Koepka always seems to be searching for some chip-on-the-shoulder motivation — though he apparently doesn’t even consider four-time major winner and reigning Player of the Year Rory McIlroy, or anyone else, a rival these days. This week, it sounds like he found some through the odds makers.
Koepka is the defending champion at this week’s CJ Cup. He’s also coming off a PGA Tour season in which he won three times, including at the PGA Championship, and finished in the top four of all four majors. Yet the 29-year-old isn’t the favorite for this week’s event at Nine Bridges Golf Club in Korea. Instead, Justin Thomas, who won the tournament in 2018 and is coming off a season in which he won once, is the favorite at the betting window.
“It's all about who puts money on whom,” Koepka said when asked about it. “Obviously that's how they find the odds. More people are betting on Justin, perfect.”
Sounds like he just found a way to get motivated for a “regular” PGA Tour ..

For diehard fans, you could argue that there is no worse time to watch your favorite team than playoff time. The stress, at times, is overwhelming, to the point where you'd rather your team not have made it so you can just enjoy the ball game and hope everybody has fun. The people that get to do that also have an ace in the hole when watching, and that's calling every other opposing fanbase whose team is in the playoffs “bandwagoners” because they all “came out of the woodwork” for the playoffs which literally “every fanbase ever does.”
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And there is nothing wrong with that. Everybody should be invited to the party, regardless of how many innings they watched during the regular season. At the end of the day, most casual fans are frontrunners.
The time when that gets you in trouble is when somebody challenges your fanhood, as if that matters in life. We've seen it..

Gary Woodland returns to South Korea's CJ Cup at Nine Bridges

ALERT: We are one week away from the start of the NBA season. It’s unfathomable. How did this sneak up on us? Cue the music!
Next Tuesday, we will see the depleted Raptors take on the depleted Pelicans and the undepleted Clippers take on the undepleted Lakers. It will be a joyous day for my household and many others across the country as we undertake a topsy-turvy campaign in which every single player seems to be in a new city.
However, there is some consistency…like the Knicks being terrible. I think they have 12 power-forwards. Maybe one will be good. Probably not, but anything is possible!
As the NBA is wont to do, they are slowly trickling out new uniforms for teams across the country (and Canada) and we at The Loop decided to rank them. So here they are—the best new jerseys for the NBA in 2019. Let’s do the damn thing.
10) Golden State Warriors
https://twitter.com/warriors/status/1174017116401328128?s=20
Just because this is at number 10 doesn’t mean these are terrible jerseys. ..

Of the four teams left in the MLB Playoffs, there was really only one that could be characterized as “like-able,” that team being the Washington Nationals. The New York Yankees? Evil Empire. The St. Louis Cardinals? Most insufferable fanbase ever. The Houston Astros? Cocky players and even cockier fans, which is funny considering they just discovered the franchise existed in 2017.
As for the Nats, now that Bryce Harper is in Philly, there's really hate-able about them. In fact, unless you're a fan of another NL East team, you almost had to feel bad for them. For years they were a dominant team in the National League, yet time after time failed in the playoffs, as if they'd been cursed. That appears to be finally changing this postseason, one in which the Nats have been the comeback kids, except in the NLCS, which is all but over now that they've taken a 3-0 lead.
The Game 3 victory, which came at home in front of a raucous crowd, was powered by the right arm of Step..

Column: An act of kindness and compassion from Virginia golf pro takes Lanto Griffin to places he never imagined

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we take back everything nice we said about Cardi B last week. Apparently, the rapper will NOT name her next album “Tiger Woods” after all. She was “kidding.” Well, Cardi, you lost a fan (of less than one week) and a customer. You don’t kid about stuff like that. Someone could see it and write about it and talk about it on a podcast and do an entire video about it. SOMEONE could! Did you ever consider that, Cardi? More like Cardi Boo, am I right? Anyway, fortunately, there’s a lot of other good stuff happening in the golf world. Let’s get to it.
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Lanto Griffin: Named after Lord Lanto, a spiritual master, Griffin clearly mastered his nerves down the stretch of the Houston Open. He rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt to take the lead on No. 16 before two-putting from 60 feet on the 18th hole to close out his first PGA Tour title. And then the tears flowed like rain—and it was awesome:
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Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jason Day and Hideki Matsuyama will go head-to-head in GOLFTV's “The Challenge: Japan Skins.”

It's been a rough go for the Rules of Golf in 2019, but somehow this story involving Jesper Parnevik puts all other oddities to shame.