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Arnaus, Cabrera Bello lead Spanish Open after 2 rounds
Adri Arnaus and Rafa Cabrera Bello took a one shot lead of the Spanish Open on Friday, as Spaniards finished in the top four spots on the leaderboard
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The late architect prided himself on sticking to a construction budget.
This Jon Rahm stare down would get him suspended at least one year from the Korean Tour
Jon Rahm has never and will never shy away from showing his emotions on the golf course. While he's never gone full Bio Kim and flipped a fan the bird, he's had his fair share of outbursts, though they are usually always directed at himself for his own poor play.
But on Thursday at the Spanish Open, Rahm had a little run-in with a fan behind the sixth tee. Immediately following impact, the fiery Spaniard dropped his club in disgust , turned around, stared directly at whoever angered him and gave him the famous Club Pro Guy stance. Here's the video captured by Golf Channel:
It's unclear which fan it was or what they did, but whatever it was it obviously irked Rahm. There were multiple people with phones out filming, but we don't want to assume.
Our question is, between the club drop, the stare down, the histrionics and the hard club slam into the bag, how long would this get Rahm suspended on the Korean Tour? One tournament? One month? The rest of the year? Luck..
Florida man beats mechanic with golf club for fixing car too slow, because Florida man
The list of “Florida man” stories has become the stuff of legend in recent years. And not the good kind of legend. In fact, there are so many that Esquire published “The 90 Wildest Florida Man Stories of 2019 (So Far).” In APRIL! But while it's tough to keep track of all these wild crime tales (Things like “Florida Man Dances through DUI sobriety test” and “Florida Man Who Allegedly Threatened Family with Coldplay Lyrics Ends Standoff After SWAT Promises Him Pizza”), one jumped out on Friday morning because Florida man struck again. Literally.
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Also, this particular story involves two tried-and-true staples of the Sunshine State: An elderly man and a golf club.
According to the Bradenton Herald and the Manatee County Sheriff's Office (Even the county names in Florida are great), a 56-year-old (Florida) man has been charged with aggravated battery for hitting his mechanic over the head with a golf club..
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Troy Aikman continues year of the roast by crapping on Cooper Kupp’s dad on live television
Troy Aikman is absolutely feeling himself in 2019. Don't believe us? Back in August, he took sports radio personality Doug Gottlieb (of credit card fraud fame) to the woodshed for his awful take on Andrew Luck's retirement, which he immediately tried to write off as “sarcasm.” If you don't recall, here's what Gottlieb tweeted:
https://twitter.com/GottliebShow/status/1165442952832811008
Everybody and their mother had a quote tweet, but nobody bodied Dougie quite like Aikman did:
https://twitter.com/TroyAikman/status/1165809758806388736
What made this particularly great, other than the endless “BODY BAG” comments and pop culture GIFs in the replies, was that Aikman and Gottlieb both work for FOX. They're coworkers! And Aikman openly dumped on him. What a world.
A month later, Aikman was back at it, responding to a tweet from The Athletic's Kansas City Twitter account that randomly compared Patrick Mahomes to Aikman:
https://twitter.com/TheAthleticKC/status/1..
PGA Tour’s Twitter King absolutely destroys Twitter troll after bad round
Dom FuroreMax Homa Westin Kierland Resort Scottsdale AZJune 5th 2019Dom FuroreCurrent Golf Digest cover boy Max Homa is one of the best golfers in the world. But he had already established himself as the game's King of Twitter (Well, at least part of its royal family along with Phil Mickelson and Eddie Pepperell) before picking up his first PGA Tour at the Wells Fargo Championship in May. And you know what they say about coming after kings on Twitter: You best not miss.
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But a brave foolish follower decided to take a crack at Homa for letting his fantasy team down with a rough start to the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open on Thursday. It did not go well for the guy. Here's his tweet with Homa's reply:
https://twitter.com/maxhoma23/status/1179912829186408448
Burn! Absolutely perfect.
It wasn't long before the poor guy was getting slammed left and right, including from fellow tour pros:
https://twitter.com/JT..
Chipper Jones (Yep, that Chipper Jones) made the play of Game 1 between the Braves and Cardinals
Chipper Jones is one of those baseball players that makes me feel like an old man. Not to date myself, but I remember having an entire sleeve of his rookie cards and watching him break in with those great Atlanta Braves teams. Then watching his entire 19-year career before retiring. (Googles when Chipper Jones retired) SEVEN years ago?! Man, I really am old.
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And so is Chipper. In fact, he's 47 and looks like a typical middle-aged man when he attends baseball games. The Hall-of-Famer also still has pretty good hands as evidenced by what happened during the ninth inning of Game 1 of the NLDS between the Braves and Cardinals on Thursday night. Check out Chipper snagging a foul pop-out with ease like he was still manning third base at the old Fulton-County Stadium:
https://twitter.com/cut4/status/1179921501212086272?s=12
What are the odds? Of course, things got even wilder from there as the Cardinals score..
Milan Lucic wasted absolutely no time beating somebody’s face in, remains the NHL’s last real enforcer
The enforcer position in the NHL is all but extinct, and analytics nerds will tell you that's a good thing. On one hand they're right. The more speed and skill on ice the better. On the other hand, sometimes you just wish your favorite team had a guy that would sock an opponent in the face when they stepped out of line. A guy like Milan Lucic.
Lucic is the last of his kind in the current NHL. The 31-year-old has been wreaking havoc on the ice for 13 years, eight of those spent with the Boston Bruins, one with the L.A. Kings, three with the Edmonton Oilers and now one game with his new squad, the Calgary Flames. On Thursday night the Flames were in Colorado to face the Avalanche, and Lucic wasted absolutely no time endearing himself to his new teammates.
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Late in the second period, Avs defenseman Nikita Zadorov made a huge, seemingly clean hit along the boards on Flames center Aus..