Last year, Matt Kuchar won with local caddie David (El Tucan) Ortiz, then created a controversy by paying him only $5,000. This year, El Tucan will caddie for Rob Oppenheim

Chung Sung-Jun/Getty ImagesThe European Tour is in Sun City, South Africa (A+ name) this week for the Nedbank Golf Challenge. The tournament, held at the Gary Player Country Club, is an important one for a number of reasons—most notably, it’s the penultimate event in the Race to Dubai and it’s part of the lucrative Rolex Series. The winner this week will take home roughly $2.5 million(!).
If that’s not enough to get drum up your interest, maybe the priceless animal-human interactions we tend to see to see on Nedbank week will do the trick. Sun City is located about 115 miles northwest of Johannesburg, adjacent to the Pilanesberg National Park and game reserve. As you may have guessed, the area is teeming with wildlife. And said wildlife aren’t the least bit shy.
During Thursday’s opening round, Tommy Fleetwood posted a video of a tee shot that found the fairway. Two mongooses—it is indeed mongooses and not mongeese, by the way—took keen interest in the Callaway, and immediately rushed ..

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If there was ever a story that would have made for a great scene in an “Entourage” episode, it's the one Matt Damon told on a recent podcast with The Ringer's Bill Simmons. All it's missing is an appearance from Ari Gold.
Damon, who stars alongside Christian Bale in the upcoming “Ford v Ferrari,” which hits theaters tomorrow, joined Simmons to discuss his new film, his “feud” with Jimmy Kimmel and much more. The best part of their discussion, though, involved the NBA, specifically the 2008 Finals that featured Damon's Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. Simmons, who had obviously heard this tale before, asked Damon to reminisce about the time he and former Lakers head coach Phil Jackson “got into it.” We'll let Damon take it from there:
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The game Damon is referring to is Game 4 of the '08 Finals. After falling into an 0-2 hole with a pair of losses in Boston, the Lakers won Game 3 87-81 and t..

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Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, or KCP for short, has had a rough start to his third season as a member of the L.A. Lakers. After averaging double figures in each of his last two seasons, he's now averaging a paltry 5.3 points per game. In 2017 he played 33 minutes per game, and in 2018 he played 24. Eleven games into this season, he's playing only 19 minutes per, a number Laker fans actually wish was lower.
It's been so bad for KCP that the new thing on Twitter is to say “arrest KCP immediately” when he makes a poor play. Now, his own teammates are laughing at him.
On Wednesday night, the now 9-2 Lakers welcomed in the new, terrible version of the Golden State Warriors and smacked them around for a 120-94 victory. The only negative of the night was the play of poor Caldwell-Pope, who went three for nine from the field and played only 19 minutes. Late in the first quarter, he grabbed an offensive board and went up for what should have been an easy layup, but the ball got stuck..

Austin Rivers owes a lot to his dad, Doc Rivers. The NBA genes he passed down, a comfortable life growing up, and even that time Doc reportedly refused to trade Austin to the lowly New York Knicks, a punishment worse than any possible grounding as a kid. Despite all that, Austin helped get his pops ejected from Wednesday night's Rockets-Clippers game. And he enjoyed every minute of it.
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The odd, but hilarious scene happened late in the fourth quarter with Austin's Rockets closing in on a win over Doc's Clippers. The elder Rivers, upset over a miscommunication with officials over whether he could challenge what he thought was a bad call, lost his cool. The younger Rivers pleaded with the refs to give dad a technical foul. And when Doc wound up getting tossed, Austin laughed and egged on the crowd:
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What a little brat! But ..

England's exclusive Sunningdale Golf Club reportedly revoked one golfer's membership for teeing it up too often.