Chris CondonSince retiring from baseball, John Smoltz has established himself as a legit threat on the golf course. Aside from cleaning up on the celebrity circuit, the MLB Hall-of-Famer has qualified for a U.S. Senior Open and played in four PGA Tour Champions events, shooting scores of 74 or better in eight of 12 rounds. But his favorite golf story comes from his days playing for the Atlanta Braves. And it involves an astronomical score by one of his teammates.
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Smoltz, now the lead baseball analyst for Fox Sports, regaled MLB.com's Mark Bowman with the tail of an epic collapse most golf fans aren't aware of. Move over, Jean van de Velde—the French golfer known for his meltdown at the 1999 British Open—and make room for a man who goes by the nickname “Frenchy,” Jeff Francoeur.
As Smoltz tells it, Francoeur, trying to beat his older teammate for the first time in 2007, held a five-shot lead on the ..

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From time to time, we make fun of Jeopardy contestants for giving bad responses. It's funny, of course, because all these people are much smarter than us, but we take the opportunity to jump on them, usually because they don't know as much as we do about sports. You know, the most important subject.
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On last night's show, it wasn't sports, but pop culture, that created the latest in what could be a series titled, “This is it, this is the worst Jeopardy response ever.” We're sure Alwin Hui is a smart guy, but this was just brutal.
Let's start with the clue in the category “Billboard Music Awards”:
As the recipient of the 2018 Icon Award, she took “Control” & took to the stage in her first live TV performance in nearly a decade.
This is actually a five-part clue. 1.) The 2018 Icon Award winner; 2.) The person has therefore been around for a long time; 3.) It's a she; 4.) She sings a song calle..

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Jim RogashWant to feel old? Like really, REALLY old. Well, today, the 17th birthday of 'NBA Street Vol. 2' as Twitter helpfully points out, Boston Red Sox legend Manny Ramirez officially announced his intentions to make a baseball comeback (in Taiwan!) So what? Normal enough, right? Well, until you realize the man they called Manny is 47 NON-DOG YEARS OLD NOW.
It's official folks: Manny Ramirez, the effervescent, dinger donging fun king, is ancient and, by proxy, so are you.
In an interview with the Taiwan Times on Wednesday, Ramirez said he is “itching to get back in the batter's box” and that despite offers from the Atlantic League, would rather schlepp it halfway around the world to play in the CPBL, where he did a 49-game stint in 2013. “The baseball fans of Taiwan are incredibly respectful and loyal,” Ramirez said of his desire to take his talents to Taiwan. “Also, the food and their tea were delicious, I remember trying to figure out how to bring it back, days..

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