Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we're about as excited as we can be for a non-major week. Fresh off that thrilling charge (and not-so-thrilling tumble) at the Open Championship, Tiger Woods returns to Firestone for one final time. Well, unless he goes back to the newest Champions Tour major venue when he's on the senior circuit. Man, imagine Tiger playing against fellow 50-plus golfers with that fused back of his? It's not even a fair fight. Heck, he might be more dominant than he was at his peak. Anyway, that's a long ways off. For now, here's what else has us talking.
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Dustin Johnson: DJ cruised to his 19th career PGA Tour title at the RBC Canadian Open. The victory matched Bubba Watson for the most on tour this season (three) and made Johnson the first player since Tiger Woods in 2009 to win three or more times on the PGA Tour in three consecutive seasons. And boy, did he look thrilled about it after:
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'400-pound rats' leave golf courses wallowing in devastation. In Texas, and in spots throughout the South, one can see the coming aporkalypse.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Australian golfer Jarrod Lyle has opted not to seek further treatment in his long fight against leukemia and will receive palliative care at home, his family announced late Tuesday.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Australian golfer Jarrod Lyle has opted not to seek further treatment in his long fight against leukemia and will receive palliative care at home, his family announced late Tuesday.

There's not exactly a pantheon of greatest moments in New York Jets history. There's the '68 Super Bowl…um…when the little kid in “Elf” wore a Wayne Chrebet jersey…let's see…Rex Ryan's “Hard Knocks” speech? Yes, that about sums it up.
So if you're wondering why first-round draft pick Sam Darnold received the “Rudy” slow-clap treatment for merely signing his contract after a short holdout, well, the above gets that point across.
https://twitter.com/Connor_J_Hughes/status/1023992126454022144
Is there a more “Jets” thing than mistiming the slow clap, thus having to do it once more? Or maybe his fellow players just really, really like Darnold. Hell, you would too after watching Josh McCown and Bryce Petty throw pass after pass to your feet for an entire season.
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PARAMUS, N.J. — It’s one of Phil Mickelson’s most famous Phil moments, and one that will likely be replayed during coverage of this year’s Northern Trust, which returns to historic Ridgewood Country Club for the first time since 2014. The A.W. Tillinghast design will be routed a bit differently for the first leg of this year’s FedEx Cup Playoffs, specifically in regards to a hole that Mickelson caused a bit of chaos on during the second round in 2014.
The hole, which played as the fifth in 2014, is known as the “five and dime” par 4, earning that moniker thanks to Byron Nelson, who would hit a 5-iron and a pitching wedge (a 10-iron way back when) as the club’s assistant pro in the 1930s. One of the first drivable par 4s before those became commonplace, it plays 291 yards, which sounds like it could be a soft 3-iron for Dustin Johnson. But the “five and dime” plays anything but soft, featuring one of the most narrow greens players will face all season, one that’s guarded by five bunkers..

In the months following Super Bowl LII, the “Philly Special” has become an inedible version of the Philly cheesesteak—an ooey, gooey embodiment of Philadelphia that's so damn good the rest of the world just has to suck it up and admit it. We've seen the tattoos and the the suit linings, but now we finally have the piece de resistance:
The Philly Special Gender Reveal (courtesy of some dude who goes by @donnyfootball93 online, because obviously).
https://twitter.com/NBCSports/status/1023947303768322054
Overall pretty good execution. The snap is a little low and the decoy routes aren't quite as crisp as you'd want—plus no way real-life Doug Pederson is getting away with flip flops on the sideline—but the mission was to find out the gender of this kid and the mission was accomplished. Given some of the gender reveals we've seen lately, that's more than some people can say.
Elsewhere in the City of Brotherly Love, the Phillies are perched atop the NL East and ..