Jason MillerLeBron James has been the focal point of this NBA off-season for obvious reasons. Despite having logged 15 long years as a pro, The King is coming off one of the best campaigns of his career, and he has the power to dramatically shift the league's landscape for the next few years depending on where he decides to play next.
So it's no surprise that anyone who has ever watched so much as one Cleveland Cavaliers game has been asked where he/she thinks LeBron will land — and this constant questioning won't stop until we finally know. Just please, stop bothering Richard Jefferson.
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LeBron's longtime friend and former teammate is tired of people inquiring if he has any inside info. So much so that he posted this humorous note on Wednesday in which he states, “I have decided to end my friendship with LeBron James.” Read the entire thing:
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Vegas makes John Smoltz the longest of long shots at this week's U.S. Senior Open at the Broadmoor Golf Club.

Eric ThayerAttention, Guts of America! It’s almost July 4, which means it’s not only time to head to Urban Outfitters and buy a $35 ironically camouflaged T-shirt you could get for $3.99 at Piggly Wiggly, but also time for the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, which returns to Coney Island to spread iconic American cheer and ruin many of its bathrooms. Since we here at The Loop and Golf Digest participate in a sport that doesn’t end with the competitors disgorging 12 lbs. of leftover panda meat into a Port-a-Potty, unless Mickelson is playing, here’s a wiener-eatin’ primer for those of you who consume hot dogs “one at a time,” like you’re so fancy.
How is this allowed to happen in America?
We have no idea! And yet every Independence Day, the country’s most accomplished “competitive eaters,” a phrase that never fails to fill us with a titanic melancholy, engage in the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Competition in Coney Island. It’s basically like the World Series/Preakness/US Open/World Cup of ..

John Smoltz discusses what it means to have his dream of playing in the U.S. Senior Open come true.

San Diego native Phil Rodgers, who died at 80, was the yin to Jack Nicklaus' yang as the contemporaries played amateur and professional golf together

You just played a fantastic course and you want to tell your friends all about it. Here's how without putting everyone to sleep or being too self-indulgent

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 ..