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Yana PaskovaAs America hurtles toward an exciting, high-stakes future full of legal sports gambling and friendly neighborhood bookies, the appetite for everything and anything even remotely competitive to throw money at has reached 1pm-on-Thanksgiving levels. Enter the iconic, immortal, and infinitely American Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest—hosted every July 4th in Coney Island since time immemorial—which is now accepting bets ahead of its 2018 gorging.
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The tubed meat stick version of Apollo Creed, Joey Chestnut, is the favorite to claim the Men's Mustard Belt at 1/5, followed in a distance second by Matt Stonie at 3/1, who snapped Chestnut's 8-year winning streak back in 2015. On the women's side, Miki Sudo is the clear favorite at 2/9 to win. The over/under line for Chestnut, who devoured 72 dawgs last year, is 68.5 at 5/6, but you may want to hold off on that one for a week or two, when s..

On Monday night, Auburn and Florida played each other with a trip to the College World Series on the line, which was evident based on how hard each team was playing. In the end, it was a wild pitcher's duel that featured some heart attack-inducing plays for both fanbases, none worse than the final play of the game, one that sent the Tigers home in the most heartbreaking way imaginable.
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With the game tied 2-2 in the bottom of the 11th, no outs and nobody on base, Florida's Austin Langworthy lined a pitch to right field of Auburn relief pitcher Cody Greenhill. Off the bat, it didn't appear like a walk-off homer, until it got closer to the fence, where Auburn right fielder Steven Williams leapt to rob Langworthy's liner and keep the Tigers alive. Well, he tried at least:
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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) Garrett Rank is trading skates for spikes on a stage far larger than anything he has experienced.

No one plays Shinnecock Hills on ice.

This week is not about blue lines and high-sticking. It’s about green fairways and lag putting.

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Rank’s day job ended two months ago when he finished working the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. That left Rank, an NHL referee for the last three years, enough time to qualify for his first U.S. Open.

”The reaction from the hockey community has been huge,” Rank said Monday. ”I think every official on our staff sent me a text and congratulated me and said they’d be following along and are really proud of me. I even had a few phone calls asking if it was me, like if that was the same Garrett Rank. I don’t know too many other people with the same name. But yeah, that’s me. I’m going to the U.S. Open.”

The fairway isn’t really an escape for the 30-year-old Canadian. Sure, it’s quieter. There is l..

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) Phil Mickelson believes Shinnecock Hills is one of the best setups he’s ever seen for a U.S. Open.

At least for 17 of the holes.

The course where Mickelson twice contended on Sunday has been lengthened by some 450 yards. That doesn’t bother Lefty, especially the 14th hole, which has been stretched by an additional 76 yards from 2004. It now is 519 yards, the longest of the par 4s.

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Mickelson, who also has a golf course design company, likes it when the hard holes are harder and the easy holes are easier.

”So when they take 14, which is a very hard par 4, and they make it harder and move the tee back, I actually like that a lot because it allows for the players that are playing well to make up strokes on the field by making pars,” he said.

He also noted that the front of the green is open, allowing shots to bounce onto the green, which makes it fair for everyone.

”It’s a hard par,” he said. ”But if you make a par there, you’ll mak..

U.S. Mid-Amateur champ Matt Parziale is enjoying his second major at the 2018 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills.

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) Garrett Rank is trading skates for spikes on a stage far larger than anything he has experienced.

No one plays Shinnecock Hills on ice.

This week is not about blue lines and high-sticking. It’s about green fairways and lag putting.

Article continues below …

Rank’s day job ended two months ago when he finished working the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. That left Rank, an NHL referee for the last three years, enough time to qualify for his first U.S. Open.

”The reaction from the hockey community has been huge,” Rank said Monday. ”I think every official on our staff sent me a text and congratulated me and said they’d be following along and are really proud of me. I even had a few phone calls asking if it was me, like if that was the same Garrett Rank. I don’t know too many other people with the same name. But yeah, that’s me. I’m going to the U.S. Open.”

The fairway isn’t really an escape for the 30-year-old Canadian. Sure, it’s quieter. There is l..

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) Garrett Rank is trading skates for spikes on a stage far larger than anything he has experienced.

No one plays Shinnecock Hills on ice.

This week is not about blue lines and high-sticking. It’s about green fairways and lag putting.

Article continues below …

Rank’s day job ended two months ago when he finished working the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. That left Rank, an NHL referee for the last three years, enough time to qualify for his first U.S. Open.

”The reaction from the hockey community has been huge,” Rank said Monday. ”I think every official on our staff sent me a text and congratulated me and said they’d be following along and are really proud of me. I even had a few phone calls asking if it was me, like if that was the same Garrett Rank. I don’t know too many other people with the same name. But yeah, that’s me. I’m going to the U.S. Open.”

The fairway isn’t really an escape for the 30-year-old Canadian. Sure, it’s quieter. There is l..