Maverick McNealy is a budding tour pro and a very skilled hockey player. He also happens to have grown up in the perfect, um, house(?), to cultivate those skills.
This past week, McNealy's dad, billionaire and former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, officially put his spectacular Silicon Valley spread on the market. For $96.8 million. Yep, $96.8 MILLION. But what a property you'll be getting. It comes with a backyard golf hole/practice area and a 7,300-square-foot indoor hockey rink, according to the Wall Street Journal. Young Mav, who is currently playing on the Web.com Tour, clearly has plenty of athletic talent, but having those two things at his disposal certainly didn't hurt, either.
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Anyway, as you might imagine, there's plenty more that comes when you purchase a house for a tenth of a billion dollars. There's a “pizza room” and a 4,700-square-foot gym so you can work off all the damage you did in th..

If you haven't noticed yet, Tiger Woods has clearly moved on from his disappointing performance in the U.S. Open at Shinnecock, where he missed the cut. The man is all smiles this week at the Quicken Loan National, almost to an aggressive degree, like in these photos of him LOLing his damn face off at Kevin Na, of all people.
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I don't doubt Na is a funny guy, but goodness gracious, Woods is howling in that third picture. Must have been a real knee-slapper. A search on Getty also yields multiple snaps of Woods flashing that million-dollar smile. He's clearly in incredibly good spirits, and this video captured by the PGA Tour furthers that notion. Here's Tiger on the range bro-hugging it out with former caddie Mike “Fluff” Cowan, causing hearts throughout the golf world to melt:
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Adorable, and Fluff even made sure to toss him a ball like old times. Fluff began carrying Tiger's bag when ..

On the pitcher’s mound, John Smoltz never shied away from pressure.

This week, the man considered by some to be the most clutch postseason pitcher in baseball history finds himself dealing with an entirely new sort of stress.

The Hall of Famer qualified for a spot in the U.S. Senior Open, which starts Thursday in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Instead of delivering the nasty stuff, he’ll be trying to avoid it on a Broadmoor East Course that ate up the seniors 10 years ago for this tournament – won by Eduardo Romero, whose 6 under was one of only three scores in the red for the week.

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”I love pressure,” Smoltz said in an interview earlier this month, shortly after he won a three-man playoff to qualify. ”But I don’t think people understand this is a different kind of pressure. This has more to do with the difference between what I’m accustomed to doing on a daily basis of average golf versus what this tournament is, which is `One bad swing, and see ya.”’

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The Simpsons has been nothing if not prophetic over the course of its astounding 29-season run, most notably predicting Donald Trump's rise to presidency as far back as Y2K, when people still believed a binary software error was the greatest threat facing mankind. Now, dedicated internet sleuths, freed from the yolk of their pesky day jobs, have unearthed a new prophecy in a classic bit from the season 9 episode 'The Cartridge Family', in which viewers are given a glimpse of a [less-than-riveting] World Cup final between Mexico or Portugal. Surely, they say, this must be the shape of our immediate soccer future:
You may be picking up on our skepticism, but so far things have lined up. Portugal finished second in Group B following a late penalty by Iran in their final group stage game, which means they will not be able to meet Mexico until the final (assuming Mexico hold on to their top spot in Group F). In addition, followers of cartoon omniscience, have also pointed to ..

Growing up, I brought my baseball glove to every New York Yankees game I attended. Of course, I never caught a foul ball, and I certainly never had a catch with Aaron Judge like one young fan did during Monday night's game. Lucky bastard.
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A video of the star rightfielder and a boy in the stands at Citizen Bank Park (the Yanks were on the road against the Phillies) has gone viral for obvious reasons. It probably didn't hurt that the boy was wearing a Judge jersey, but still, this is pretty awesome:
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And here's another angle of this special interaction this kid will never forget:
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Like Mariano Rivera, Judge has become the rare Yankee that even Yankee haters have to like. And he also just locked up a few more MLB All-Star votes. Savvy.
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Quicken Loans National fantasy golf picks: Do you trust Tiger Woods with a mallet putter at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm?

POTOMAC, Md. (AP) Even after winning for the third time in his last nine starts, Bubba Watson wasn’t willing to say it’s his best year in golf.

And he’s right.

Watson got the year wrong, though his memory was clear after closing with a 63 to win the Travelers Championship. It was in 2014 that he won at Riviera, held off Jordan Spieth to win the Masters and then closed out the year with a wild finish in Shanghai, where he made double bogey on the 17th hole, holed out a bunker shot for eagle on the 18th hole and won the HSBC Champions in a playoff.

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”The birth of our child was two days later,” he said. ”Angie was in the hospital with the birth mom. I was in China at that time celebrating a victory, but celebrating a beautiful child that nobody knew about at that moment.”

The three victories in 2014 included a green jacket from Augusta National, so that raises the stakes.

But there’s more.

Watson also had three runner-up finishes in 2014 at the Phoenix Op..

POTOMAC, Md. (AP) Tiger Woods already has played 10 times as the year reaches the halfway point.

Some might consider that a surprise considering where he was a year ago.

Woods has finished within five shots of the lead only once, a runner-up finish in the Valspar Championship, and he was never in the picture at either of the two majors.

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Some might consider that a surprise considering how well he is swinging the club.

Six months into 2018, golf hasn’t offered a lot of clarity with Woods, or anyone else.

Golf keeps trending younger, with few exceptions, a point driven home two weeks ago at the U.S. Open when 28-year-old Brooks Koepka made it five straight majors won by players in their 20s. Dustin Johnson is still No. 1 in the world, a ranking he has held for all but four weeks.

But there still isn’t a dominant figure, except when it comes to attracting a crowd.

Woods is at the Quicken Loans National this week, a field so weak that Rickie Fowler (No. 8..

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we get super cautious paranoid the week of our annual buddies trip. The lawnmower gets put away and even doing something as tame as vacuuming can cause panicked conversations to run wild through my head. What if I trip over the cord and break my leg?! I’ll never live down a vacuuming injury! Even Jason Day has never gotten hurt vacuuming! At least, I don't think. And wait, vacuuming has TWO “u”s in it? What a weird-looking word. . .
And I don’t even have to do anything to get hurt. I woke up Sunday morning with a sore neck for the first time in years. Totally random. Or maybe it wasn't random. . . Damn it! I knew I shouldn’t have vacuumed! Anyway, before I dislocate a finger typing, let’s talk about everything else going on this week in golf.
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