Tiger Woods gets more fresh faces in his return to Match Play, opens WGC event against PGA Tour rookie of year

The Iowa State women's golf team, still reeling from the murder of Celia Barquin Arozamena, claimed their first stroke-play title since 2012—and won it in historic fashion

Sometime last week, rapper Lil Pump spent a very interesting evening at TopGolf. We know this because, like most celebrities who go to TopGolf, he splattered videos of his ill-fated golf escapade all over social media, and, like most celebrities who do literally anything, quickly went viral for his efforts. Despite Lil Pump's good natured go at it, however, his form left a, um, little to be desired, attracting the attention of golf instructor Travis Fulton, who took to Twitter on Sunday night to offer a full, tip-to-tail breakdown of Mr. Pump's problematic stroke.
https://twitter.com/travisfulton/status/1109865113023115265
No we here at The Loop our big proponents of the whole “swing your swing blah blah” approach, and to Fulton's credit, he starts Lil Pump's assessment with the positives, namely his visualization and ability take a full cut and still spray the ball exactly 90 degrees to the right. It's not everyday you see such focus or precision. From there, ..

Nelly Korda, after finishing T-2 at the Bank of Hope Founders Cup, moves up to No. 6 in the Rolex Women's World Rankings, becoming the top-ranked American

Vaughn RidleyIf you were looking for a little madness from the NCAA Tourney this weekend, you were probably a little disappointed. One-seed Duke and two-seed Tennessee held off upset bids, while UNC cruised and Oregon, the 12-seed “surprise”, knocked off the UC Irvine Anteaters, a 13-seed “surprise.” So far things look chalkier than a bottle of Tums, which has many basketball fans lamenting the lack of chaos (and Sister Jean), but thankfully the NBA was on hand to ratchet up the crazy on Sunday evening with quite possibly the best buzzer beater of the year thus far. Jeremy Lamb, take a bow, sir.
https://twitter.com/hornets/status/1109975417169960962
Obviously incredible stuff from Lamb, who picks up the fumbled in-bounds and goes full Steph Curry from the Raptors' half, banking in as the buzzer sounds to not only give the Charlotte Hornets the 115-114 win, but also keep them in playoff hunt. If you watched the video on mute in the restroom stall at work while hiding from your Mond..

It's a good thing the Portland Trail Blazers have one of the best backcourts in the NBA in Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum. Otherwise, the wife of one of their big men might be coming for their jobs.
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On Sunday, center Meyers Leonard posted a video of his wife, Elle, practicing her jump shot. And it's one of the more impressive home highlight reels we've ever seen. Check out Elle, a 1,000-point scorer in high school, quickly raining step-back shots. With both hands.
https://twitter.com/MeyersLeonard11/status/1109868439131156480
Incredible. And how about the concentration at the end where she avoids that bouncing ball, then catches it and makes it to? Skills!
Leonard has been a solid big since Portland took him with the 11th overall pick out of Illinois in 2012. But for a 7-footer, he does boast a sparkling career free throw percentage of 82.3. Then again, how could he not with that sweet ..

Sean GardnerLast year, immediately following the Patriots loss in Super Bowl LII, Rob Gronkowski told reporters “I’m definitely gonna look at my future, for sure. I’ll sit down in the next couple of weeks and see where I’m at.” Days later, Bill Burt of the Eagle-Tribune published a report alleging that if Gronk does retire, it will be to pursue a full-time acting career—using his numerous hosting roles, stand-up specials, WrestleMania cameos, and Tide Pod-devouring commercial gigs as a springboard to Hollywood stardom.
On Sunday, that day finally came, with the 29-year-old Patriots tight end officially putting himself out to pasture. Where or not he follows in the goliath footsteps of friend and former-linebacker-turned-helicopter-punching-muscle-ball Dwayne Johnson remains to be seen, of course, but if he does, we have some script ideas that are sure to help Gronk turn Tinseltown upside down. Now if you’ll excuse us, we have Mr. Pitt holding on the other line.
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Icon SportswireI hate to break this to you, but it's Sunday afternoon, the first two rounds are almost complete, and I can now project, Wolf Blitzer-style, that we are in the midst of a very bad March Madness.
On some level, this was to be expected—last year's tournament was absolutely bonkers, to the point that I declared it the greatest opening weekend ever. First off, there was the small matter of a 16-seed beating a 1-seed, which, you know, has never happened before and probably never will again. No big deal.
Beyond that, there were buzzer beaters, massive upsets, and even an iconic nun named Sister Jean who now has her own Wikipedia page.
What do we have so far in 2019? Very few upsets of note, no buzzer beaters, and lots of stupid teases, where underdogs look good for 15 minutes or so before collapsing. The few upsets that have happened have mostly been blowouts or duds, like Murray State crushing Marquette, or the epitome of “who cares?” style wins, like Ohio State ove..

From Paul Casey's title defense at the Valspar to a pro's breakthrough 15 years in the making, here's what you missed in golf this weekend.

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