Sean GardnerAs we've seen with many great NBA players, specifically Kevin Durant, even guys who are the best in the world at what they do can still be insecure. Constantly scouring social media is part of the problem, as it's full of takes from couch analysts who really don't know what they're talking about. Why NBA players, or any star athlete for that matter, feel the need to respond to these trolls is difficult to comprehend.
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Carmelo Anthony is no stranger to responding to these people on social media either, and with the direction his career is going in, the criticisms are only going to get worse. The latest random dagger came from the @all.nba.riddles account, in which it posted a screenshot of a tweet (INCEPTION) that was clearly sarcastically comparing the career of Cleveland Cavaliers shooting guard Kyle Korver to Melo's:
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Haley Moore rolled in a birdie to win her match in extra holes and give Arizona the needed third point to beat Alabama and win the 2018 NCAA Women's title

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) The LPGA Tour and BMW Group Korea have reached an agreement for a South Korean tournament that will start next year.

LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan and BMW Group Korea Chairman Hyo Joon Kim announced Wednesday that the first event will be played in October 2019 at LPGA International Busan, the tour’s first golf facility outside the United States.

BMW also sponsors the PGA Tour’s BMW Championship and two European Tour events.

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STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) Haley Moore beat Lakareber Abe with a birdie on the first extra hole Wednesday to give Arizona a 3-2 victory over Alabama in the NCAA women’s golf championship.

Three days after the Wildcats were one putt away from being eliminated, Moore made a 4-foot putt on the par-5 18th to finally finish off Abe in the last match at Karsten Creek. Abe putted first and missed from about the same distance, with her ball going by on the left.

”It means so much. It is actually like a dream,” Moore said. ”I never would have thought that it would be like this. I’m just so happy right now and for my team, and I did this for them.”

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Abe birdied the 18th in regulation to force overtime.

”I kind of screwed up on 17 and then came to 18 and I knew I was going to have to make a birdie or eagle because Hayley had been outdriving me all day,” Abe said. ”Just to hit a good drive and a good 3-wood and to have a chance to play 19 holes is the best feeling.”

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TEQUESTA, Fla. (AP) High school seniors Cole Hammer and Garrett Barber won the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship on Wednesday, beating Marc Dull and Chip Brooke 4 and 3 at Jupiter Hills.

The 18-year-old Hammer, from Houston, is set to play at Texas next fall. Barber, from Stuart, Florida, also is 18. He’s headed to LSU.

”Growing up watching U.S. Opens and U.S. Amateurs on TV, I just knew being a USGA champion is something that I desperately wanted,” said Hammer, who qualified for a U.S. Open three years ago at 15. ”And to finally do it, it feels incredible. It feels as good, if not better, than I thought it would. And especially being able to do it with Garrett. It’s really cool to share this moment.”

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Hammer and Cole won the par-4 eighth with a birdie to take a 2-up lead. They took the par-4 10th with a par, won the par-5 13th with an eagle – Barber hit a 4-iron from 235 yards to 3 feet – and havled the next two holes to end the match.

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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Jordan Spieth has always considered Colonial a hometown tournament as well. He also has had much more success at Hogan’s Alley than at the Byron Nelson, where he played his first PGA Tour event as a 16-year-old high school junior.

”I’ve been coming out here since I was 6, 7 years old, too. It was always a fun couple of weeks,” Spieth said Wednesday. ”School was letting out into summertime and the PGA rolled through Dallas and Fort Worth way back when I was just falling in love with the game. … Both places have the extra aura, too.”

Now 24 and with three majors among his 11 PGA Tour wins, Spieth has won only once in his home state of Texas. That was two years ago at Colonial, where he has four top-10 finishes in five starts. He was the runner-up in 2015 and last year.

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Webb Simpson, a top-five finisher in the last two Colonials, was off last week after winning The Players Championship earlier this month. He was the 54-hole leader at ..

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) Ariya and Moriya Jutanugarn play golf and live life differently.

The sisters from Thailand do have the same goal on the LPGA Tour, hoping their shot-to-shot focus leads to titles.

The Jutanugarns are two of six women with a shot at the Volvik Championship to become the circuit’s first two-time winner this year. The first round begins Thursday at Travis Pointe Country Club, a course six winners are skipping to prepare elsewhere for next week’s U.S. Open at Shoal Creek in Alabama.

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”Everybody has a chance to win every weekend,” Moriya said. ”That’s how hard it is on tour right now.”

Ariya competes with a grip-it-and-rip-it approach, usually hammering a 3-wood off the tee.

Moriya takes a more calculated approach, analyzing each shot patiently.

That’s perhaps fitting because she’s 16 months older than her sister.

”It’s funny because when we think about something, it’s always the different,” she said. ”But we pretty much end up with t..

NBCMorgan Freeman could read anything and we'd listen. The nutritional information on a box of Cheerios, IKEA assembly instructions, the collected tweets of Tomi Lahren. You name it and we'll be there, tweed jacket, legs crossed, hanging on every single syrupy syllable. Which is why we just sold our car, packed a pocket full of dreams, and booked flights to Vancouver, where Morgan Freeman is poised to become the voice of god Rain City's TransLink metro system.
FacebookPinterestNo, this is not a drill. For a limited time, Freeman will helm public service announcements on Vancouver's SkyTrain, urging customers to utilize the new “tap-to-pay” system on behalf of Visa (which we can only assume everyone will immediately obey.) Said announcements will include golden soliloquies like “Good news, Vancouver. Starting today, you can now tap your Visa to go anywhere TransLink takes you,” as well as pleasant morning greetings and etiquette reminders to not smoke or put your fee..

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The odds of being struck by lightning twice might be better odds than pulling off what Brian Dozier did on Wednesday afternoon at Target Field. If that seems like an exaggeration, it's not. There's really no other way to explain this:
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How!? Seriously, how? You have better odds of getting killed by a bear at Yellowstone National Park than wedging a baseball in the padding of the center field wall. Yes, I did Google “odds of (insert insane thing here)” a bunch of times until I found this list of “21 Things Things More Likely Than Dying In A Plane Crash” and the bear at Yellowstone National Park item really jumped off the page. In case you're wondering, it's a 1 in 2.1 million chance, and if you're that one person I feel like you definitely could have avoided being killed by the bear at Yellowstone National Park. Step 1: Don't go to Yellowstone National Park. Boom, problem solved.
Anyway, back to Dozi..