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U.S. Open 2019: Zach Johnson forced to do jumping jacks after a missed putt

Patrick Smith(Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)PEBBLE BEACH—Whatever your side on the “Are golfers athletes?” conversation, there's no debating this video capturing Zach Johnson's poor jumping-jack form doesn't make a strong case for the affirmative.
That's right, jumping jacks. In its practice round coverage of the 2019 U.S. Open, Golf Channel cameras caught the two-time major winner breaking out calisthenics off a Pebble Beach green following a missed putt:
https://twitter.com/DiggersGolf/status/1138367521634029568
Far be it from us to judge another man's athleticism—glasses houses and what not—but Johnson looks like an 80-year-old at a pre-sunrise Zumba class at the local Y.
And if that's the penalty for a missed putt during a practice round, what's the punishment for what Johnson did at the Masters this year, when he accidentally hit his tee ball during a practice swing at Augusta National's 13th tee? The thought of ZJ breaking out push-up..

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Game 5 of the NBA Finals was every little terrible thing wrong with modern sports

Claus AndersenSports Twitter is a fallout zone. It's Tuesday morning, the day after Game 5 of the 2019 NBA Finals, and the buildings are crumbling, every avatar is sprouting a second head from the radiation, and it's simultaneously everyone and no one's fault. What was supposed to be a fairytale ending for the Toronto Raptors and their plucky fanbase, saw the former blow it and the latter morph into villains. What was supposed to be a Bill Murray-in-Space Jam comeback for Kevin Durant turned into a cautionary tale about the relationship between employee and employer. Drake was Drake and the internet attacked some random guy named Kyle Lowery. It was every single little thing wrong with modern sports rolled into a two-and-a-half hour hand grenade and the NBA Finals are probably ruined because of it.
If you have to blame one thing, blame the times, man.
A great many things, both in and out of sports, are better now than they were 20-30-40 years ago. But Monday night at the..

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