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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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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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) John Daly has withdrawn from the U.S. Senior Open, citing a deteriorating knee condition and blaming the USGA for not allowing him to use a golf cart.

The 52-year-old two-time major champion went on Twitter to say the USGA turned down his request to use a golf cart, which could have been allowed under rules that conform with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The USGA responded , saying it offered Daly a chance to provide additional information about his condition. Daly said he never received such a request .

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Golf carts generally are forbidden in tournament play. In 2001, Casey Martin , who suffers from a rare circulatory condition, successfully sued the PGA Tour to use a cart in a tournament.

Daly, who withdrew from a tournament last October after his knee collapsed, finished seventh at last week’s Champions Tour event.

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James Harden won Most Valuable Player not named LeBron James honors at Monday night's NBA Award Show, and deservedly so. The Beard led the league in scoring, win shares and efficiency usage while guiding the Houston Rockets to a No. 1 seed in the Western Conference. Considering the six-time All-Star should have won the year before (that sound you hear is every poor bastard that's ever played with Russ Westbrook nodding), it was a long overdue coronation.
But no one is talking about Harden's crowning Tuesday morning. And that's because the Houston guard received his award dressed like a f$@%^@! cow.
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