The 2018 MLS All-Star Game is next week. There's a good chance this is news to you and, given the game's seemingly perpetual identity crisis, that's OK. It all began in 1996 with a traditional East-West format. In 1998, the MLS pitted their domestic stars vs. their international counterparts. Fours years later, they played the U.S. Men's National Team. After that, the MLS moved to their present-day format of All-Stars vs. random European mega-club…except for 2004, when they went back to East-West matchup for some reason. In other words, the only way to feel about the MLS All-Star Game is confused.
In those early days, however, lost in a kaleidoscope swirl of frosted tips, Microsoft Paint jersey designs, and format tinkering, lies a hidden gem of American sports: The MLS Skills Competition—an unabashedly Y2K grab-bag of semi-soccer related challenges including everything from long-kick competitions to something called “Goalie Wars”, where two goalies would stand 10..

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) American Kirk Triplett and Thaworn Wiratchant of Thailand shot 7-under 65s Thursday to lead the Senior British Open by one stroke after the opening round but both will be keeping a close eye on defending champion Bernhard Langer.

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) Bryson DeChambeau shot a 6-under 66 to take the first-round lead at the European Open on Thursday.

You know you're getting old as a sports fan when the athletes you root for start to get older than you are. It happens to all of us when we get older. How about for Vince Carter, and you're now playing with fellow basketball players who weren't even born when you started playing in the league?
Carter agreed to a deal to a $2.4 million, one-year deal on Wednesday with the Atlanta Hawks, where he'll team up with rookie Trae Young, who started at the University of Oklahoma last season. The crazy thing? Young was three months away from being born when Carter was drafted in the 1998 NBA Draft. Same for Hawks rookie Kevin Huerter, who played two seasons with the University of Maryland before being drafted by the Hawks this year. This will be Carter's 20th season in the league.
We'd hope the new class of NBA players have seen Vince Carter highlight videos—VC jumping over 7-foot-2 Fredric Weis and dunking on him in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney might be one o..

Joaquín Niemann's father told the Chilean Golf Federation that the fledgling star will be playing in the PGA Championship.

OAKVILLE, Ontario (AP) Dustin Johnson got into the hockey – and family – spirit on the par-3 seventh hole at Glen Abbey.

Nat LapointeIt's been just a couple weeks since news broke that Derek Jeter was selling his $15 million dollar Hudson Valley haunt, and now it appears yet another aging sports icon, Mario Lemieux, is following suit. Castles are, like, soooooo 2017.
North of Jeter's place both in terms of location—perched at the foot of Quebec's Mont Tremblant—and price—a whopping $21,999,066—Lemieux's so-called “Fleur de Lys” (ick) features 17,000 square feet of goodies, including 50 rooms, 17 fireplaces, a theater, a pool, a spa, a tennis court, a gym, a wine cellar, and guesthouse that makes your actual house look like a tool shed. But enough details. You can't afford this place anyway. Let's get to the pictures so we can play make believe for five seconds:
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ST ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) Never before in the 31-year history of the Senior British Open has the event attracted as much interest from would-be competitors as this week's edition at St Andrews.

One-handed rakes, punch-out club twirls and Mexican drug cartel run-ins appear like they're coming to the Web.com Tour's Kansas City event in a few weeks. The tour announced on Wednesday that they have extended a special exemption into next week's KC Golf Classic's Monday qualifier to the Club Pro Guy, one of the best follows in golf social media.
Any golfer on social media likely follows the Club Pro Guy, a hilarious parody account run anonymously but has accumulated 60,000 followers for his dead-on humor about all things golf. The former Mexican mini-tour star has appeared on the Golf Channel a handful of times, in the pages of Golf Digest and on podcasts like No Laying Up and the Tour Junkies. But every time, he's managed to keep his identity unknown—with the Golf Channel blurring out his face. If Club Pro Guy does, in fact, take up the Web.com Tour on this offer, he'll be showing his face in public. And we're sure folks will share it on social med..

FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS: We, as a planet, have plenty of ninjas. Loads of ninjas. Too many ninjas, probably, enough that we got bored teaching the ancient silent death arts to humans and began spawning mutant turtles, just for something to do. Enough that we invented a game show in which people equate a 500-year-old Eastern legend with flinging themselves over elevated monkey bars in downtown Tulsa. Rest assured that tonight, when you rest your noggin on your memory foam pillow, you live in a world stuffed to the brim with three things: Yankees closers, people who are easily duped by Sacha Baron Cohen, and ninjas.
But here’s the bad news: Despite having been fooled seven billion times in the last four days, the internet jumped on an
awesome-sounding headline, got the story totally 100% wrong and will pay for it by preeeeeeeeetty much doing the same shit the next time Ken Bone shows up or a douche-looking guy appears to steal a foul ball from an adorable moppet. (And here let me pause to s..