With a third-straight individual win, OSU sophomore Matthew Wolff is the first Cowboy golfer to finish the fall season undefeated in stroke-play competition

The golf “buddies trip” is a tradition as old as the game itself—a group of friends plan a trip to a golf destination where they will play more golf in a long weekend than they thought humanly possible, and pair it with great food, activities and camaraderie. The golf professionals at the American Club Resort in Kohler, Wis., are used to seeing buddies trips visit their facilities year-round, and they've recently created a service called “The Ultimate Buddies Trip that customizes these trips for the groups of men and women who come to Kohler for this specific purpose.

On Monday night, following the L.A. Lakers third straight loss to open the season, the talk of social media revolved around Kobe Bryant, of all people. Why? Because newest Laker LeBron James missed two potential game-sealing free throws, something Kobe would NEVER do according to his lovable legion of lunatic fanboys, or “stans” as many on Twitter refer to them as (urban dictionary definition here).
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Those same Kobe “stans” must have lit up like a Christmas tree when they saw Kobe was conveniently going to appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” the next night. Among many other topics discussed, the Lakers 0-3 start to the season obviously came up, with Kimmel first asking if Bryant had seen any of the overtime thriller between his former team and the San Antonio Spurs. Bryant says he only caught the final eight minutes and all of overtime because he was coaching his daughter's basketball team. Wha..

Life is full of hardship and grief. Loss and devastation. Just ask Cubs fans. Partly because they went 108 years without winning a World Series and partly because now, just as the deep emotional wounds we're beginning to heal, the fates have struck the goat-fearing psycopaths of North Chicago (and their late-adopting army of bandwagoneers) another cruel blow: Wrigleyville's iconic Taco Bell—a beacon of light in many a dark night for Cubs fans—will be demolished next month to make way for some suspender-wearing mortgage developers' luxury condo development for people who grew up playing squash instead of baseball. Rest in Power, 1111 West Addison Street.
FacebookPinterestChris McGrathThankfully one Chicago bar is stepping up to the plate to help Northsiders exercise their new complement of demons, hosting an Irish Wake in honor of the beloved Baja Blast purveyor on Sunday. “Wrigleyville's last bastion of burritos, gorditas, and good decision making is getting the wre..

Our veteran golf writer's first trip to Ireland turned into a therapeutic journey around some of links golf's greatest destinations.

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FacebookPinterestHindustan TimesAir pollution in New Delhi, India, last week. It could be as bad or worse for the Panasonic Open India this week. (Photo by Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

The field in the Asian Tour’s Panasonic Open India in New Delhi this week might redefine the word choking as we know it in golf.
Smog, rather than pressure with a back-nine lead on Sunday, is far more likely to the culprit in a region plagued by some of the worst air pollution in the world. It could have golfers choking on the front nine on Thursday.
In 2017, Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi, called the city a “gas chamber,” and barring a stiff breeze the situation at Delhi Golf Club won’t be appreciably different.
An Agence France-Presse story on the city’s FirstPost news website previewing the tournament noted how bad the smog was for the Delhi half marathon on Sunday.
“Some runners wore masks…when the US embassy website showed levels of the smallest, most harmful air pollu..

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Philip Ramey Photography, LLCThe T-Wolves have had a real rollercoaster start to their 30th year of NBA futility. First they revived one of the best uniforms the NBA has ever seen. Then Jimmy Butler went full Wahlberg. Then Kevin Garnett swore a bunch. Then they started the season 2-2, winning in a 101-point effort and losing after putting up 136. Go figure.
But now the Wolves are back on the upswing again, with the reddit page r/timberwolves uncovering the team's long-rumored, Prince-inspired City Edition unis, which look totally, ridiculously awesome duh. Look upon them and weep, proud Minnesotans of America:
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If you've been longing for the Raptors to revive those '90s purples, these are definitely the next best thing. Honoring the late R&B legend's all-purple, all-the-time ethos, these purported City Editions are simultaneously simple and flashy, featuring aggressive fonts, ultra-saturated hues, and “MPLS” p..

It was a play that had all the makings to cause an on-court skirmish: A lopsided game getting even more out-of-hand on a dunk that involved a bit of showboating. Only, there wound up being no fight, but rather, an assault.
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The brutal retaliation took place in an Austrian pro league contest on Tuesday and involved an American player named David Samuels. Presumably frustrated by getting dunked on while his team was getting its butt kicked, Samuels connected a sucker punch to the back of Erwin Zulic's head, causing him to drop to the floor in a heap. Here's the chilling clip that makes the punches thrown in that Lakers-Rockets brawl look tame by comparison:
Incredibly, Zulic gets to his feet quickly considering the death blow he absorbed. However, he had to be helped off the court and will probably never even think about hanging on the rim again.
As for Samuels, who played collegiately at Long Beach State, forget abo..