Eclipse SportswireDid you have a good weekend, America? Did you bask and bake in the perfect spring weather? Did you indulge in a little Cinco de Mayo celebration with your sombrero-clad near and dears? Good. We're glad you enjoyed yourselves, but you have nothing on this Austin woman, who won $1.2 million dollars on a Kentucky Derby bet of [drum roll please] $18.
How's that for a little ROI?
FacebookPinterestOn Saturday afternoon, while you were busy betting your kid's Harvard fund on Gronkowski (don't worry, they're not getting in anyway), the unidentified woman made a Pick 5 wager at the Retama Park racetrack in Salem, Texas—selecting the winner of five Derby Day races, including Justify, the 7-2 Derby favorite and eventual champion, Limousine Liberal, Maraud, Yoshida, and 39-1 Pat Day Mile race longshot Funny Duck, who we assume she picked purely because of the name.
Retama Park spokesperson Rachel Bagnetto called the feat—a first for the Texas track—”unhea..

A new four-part docu-series, 'Driven,' goes inside the world of college golf by following the Oklahoma State men's golf team during the 2018 spring season

Christian Petersen(Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)I have said many a mean thing about Major League Baseball. How it's draconian laws on video use has curbed its growth among youth in the digital age. That its lack of salary cap is a death sentence to small-market teams. Its treatment of minor-league players borders on indentured servitude, or that it lionized Bud Selig, a man who actively covered up scandal after scandal. But, God help me so, I do love the game. And whenever I get down about the sport's future, there are moments like Sunday to remind me that America's pastime might be okay.
For, during a tilt between the Houston Astros and Arizona Diamondbacks, the bullpen cart made its return to baseball when Astros reliever Collin McHugh. And it. Was. GLORIOUS.
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The Diamondbacks have had the cart since Opening Day, but McHugh was the first to commandeer it.
“It was there, they provided it for us, so I decide..

One of the biggest fallacies here on planet earth is that you should always respect your elders. Respect is earned, not given, and you don't get brownie points simply for not dying. As it turns out, plenty of terrible people are old, like Cincinnati Flames youth baseball coach Paul Melvin who, despite being the “elder” of the 13U baseball team he was coaching in Indianapolis this weekend, was in fact the worst behaved human in attendance, attempting to attack a parent with one of his players' aluminum bats in what looks like the most milquetoast Grand Theft Auto mod of all time. Let rage blackout commence.
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Now we don't know what provoked this outburst or what Melvin would have actually done if he were able to reach his target without first being restrained, but let's just keep this simple: You aren't allowed to hit people with baseball bats. You aren't allowed to threaten to hit people with baseball bats. You're especiall..

Jason Day might not ever get as hot as when he won seven times in a 10-month span in 2015-'16. But when he's happy & healthy, he's as talented as they come

There's a new season of “Arrested Development” coming down the pipeline, not that you'd know it. Aside from creator Mitchell Hurwitz keeping fans up to date on the beloved show's status in the occasional media interview, Netflix hasn't made a peep. Odd, considering the streaming service breaks the bank anytime an Adam Sandler movie is ready to roll.
But, according to Hurwitz, who recently announced Season 4 had been re-cut and presented in chronological order, Season 5 is right around the corner. No, really.
“Like real soon,” Hurwitz said on Twitter. “Like, if you knew when, you would not be wrong to be thinking, ‘Why are we all just hearing this now?'”
Over the weekend, Hurwitz's statement was seemingly confirmed by this Bluth Company car sighting in New York City:
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Interesting use of guerrilla marketing, although the the team missed a big..

Matteo MarchiLiterally one week ago, Ben Simmons was one of the most celebrated players in the NBA. The Sixers guard couldn't shoot, but the gleeful narrative was that it didn't matter—his passing, penetrating, and post-up games were all so strong that he was the odd NBA guard who didn't need a jump shot. I believed it. The numbers backed it up—he averaged 16 points, eight boards, and eight assists in his rookie campaign. LeBron called him “Young King.” Julius Erving called him “once-in-a-lifetime.” The Washington Post wrote about how his rookie season was actually better than Lebron's. Then, in the first round of the playoffs, he completely dominated the Heat, nearly averaging a triple-double (18.2/10.6/9.0) and 2.4 steals while shooting 50 percent in a five-game series. To quote CBS: “Rookies are not supposed to do this. There is supposed to be at least some kind of learning curve. Simmons is special.”
Again, that was one week ago.
Then Brad Stevens and the Boston..

Jared C. Tilton/Getty ImagesNothing Phil Mickelson does on a golf course should ever, ever, EVER surprise anybody, not with more than two decades of swing pyrotechnics as reference for Lefty’s wizardry. The same holds true for anything that comes out of Mickelson’s mouth. He’s part William Shakespeare, part Mark Twain and part John Grishom when it comes to answering interview questions.
The combination of “do” and “say” was on display again Sunday at the Wells Fargo Championship when Mickelson made an all-world par on the 18th hole at Quail Hollow Club to cap off a closing 69 for a T-5, his fifth top-five finish in 2018.
Mickelson was smack in the fairway off the tee only to push his second shot left of the green. The ball wound up in a precarious lie against the rocks by the stream beside the putting surface, but Mickelson didn’t break a sweat. He popped up the shot to 20½ feet of the hole—a remarkable effort give what he was facing. Naturally, he rolled in the putt, and authored a vi..

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Jason Day birdied two of his final three holes Sunday for a 2-under 69 and a two-shot victory over Aaron Wise and Nick Watney in the Wells Fargo Championship, his second victory this year.

After squandering a three-shot lead on the back nine, Day rolled in a 20-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole and then effectively won the tournament when his tee shot on the 230-yard 17th hole crashed into the flagstick and settled 3 feet away. He was the only player to make birdie on No. 17 at Quail Hollow in the final round, and it staked him to a two-shot lead.

Wise, a PGA Tour rookie, saved par on his last two holes for a 68. Watney made a 59-foot birdie putt on the last hole for a 69 and his best finish in three years.

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Day finished at 12-under 272 and returns to the top 10 in the world.

Tiger Woods was never a factor. He failed to make birdie in the final round of a PGA Tour event for only the second time in his career, and the first since the ..

THE COLONY, Texas (AP) Sung Hyun Park converted a clutch shot to turn around what had been a disappointing year.

Park chipped in for birdie from behind the green on the par-4 18th hole to close out a 5-under 66 in the second and final round of the weather-abbreviated LPGA Texas Classic, good for a one-shot victory.

”The beginning of the season was pretty frustrating, since I missed two cuts, and I felt pretty upset inside,” Park said. ”But after today’s win, I just feel like everything – everything just kind of disappeared.”

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The sweet-swinging 24-year-old South Korean, the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 5, ended up needing that chip to drop to survive a late charge by Lindy Duncan, who birdied her final three holes for a 64, the low round of the tournament.

Park finished with a two-round total of 11-under 131 for her third career victory and first since last season, when she was named rookie of the year and shared the player of the year award..