Patrick McDermottHonestly, the less said about bat flips at this point the better. Whether or not they soil the beautiful, pure fabric of baseball shouldn't even be a topic of debate here in 2018, where sports (to say nothing of the world at large) are facing far more complex, meaningful flashpoints. Thankfully, in recent months baseball has discovered an unlikely voice of reason on this front: Nationals reliever Sean Doolittle, who not only doesn't care if you stunt on him after a home run, but actually wants to incentivize hitters to do so.
“If a guy hits a home run off me, drops to his knees, pretends the bat is a bazooka and shoots it out at the sky… I don’t give a shit.” Doolittle says in a new interview with Expanded Roster. “A lot of these guys come to America and baseball was their ticket to give their family a better life…They’re incredibly grateful for the opportunity to play this game. I promise you they’re not disrespecting the game. If you got your feelings hur..

The cups runneth over: Ryder Cup on the mind, FedEx Cup is in play for so many others

In case you missed it, yesterday evening kung-fu sensei, John Travolta School of Dance graduate, and off-duty regional sales manager Phil Mickelson was announced by Captain Picard, er, Furyk as one of three U.S. Ryder Cup captains alongside Newsies star Bryson DeChambeau and Tiger Woods. Phil hasn't exactly been on fire this summer, but he's been there and done that, and his experience could prove valuable down the stretch at Le Golf National. Don't believe us? Just check out this Yankee Doodle Dandy that Phil posted to Twitter moments after Tuesday's announcement.
https://twitter.com/PhilMickelson/status/1037085203074707456
The appropriate response here is wow. Not sure where or when Phil snapped this gem, but it has us seeing stars and hearing the screech of an eagle soaring somewhere high overhead. In Phil's own words, it's “patriotic” and “PHIERCE” and is sure to have Sergio and co. shaking in their spikes come the end of the month.
Until, then it repr..

Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson and Paul Casey are the European team's wild-card selections for the Ryder Cup

Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson and Paul Casey are the European team's wild-card selections for this month's Ryder Cup

Woods, Mickelson, DeChambeau added to US Ryder Cup team, with 1 more pick left for captain Jim Furyk

Tee times and viewer's guide for the 2018 BMW Championship at Aronimink Golf Club.

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Here is a functional Bugatti Chiron sports car that drives, looks cool and is made entirely of Lego Technic pieces, and if that sentence doesn’t trigger some form of childlike glee in your central nervous system, you are excused to get back to protesting Nike. Everything about this car hits the precise midpoint between formative-year nerdery and Italian-design opulence; it’s a sports car made out of a toy that works and — if we were to guess — is currently being used to hunt down spies. Lego spies, mainly, and probably little tiny ones whose hands don’t move and whose arms only go up and down, but still.
Readers of a certain demographic — pretty much anyone between the ages of 3 and 98 — can probably agree that Legos remain the best toy ever produced, with the obvious exception of the automatic water-balloon filler (NOBEL PRIZE) and the time G.I. Joe made an action figure out of The Fridge. (PROBABLY NOT A NOBEL PRIZE)
Happily, thanks to technology we can now merge Lego Nerds with Inte..

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