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Netflix’s promotion for the fifth season of “Arrested Development” seems highly inefficient

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:
https://twitter.com/Late2TheParty11/status/993353556798226432
https://twitter.com/gregfeltes/status/993312570562891776
Interesting use of guerrilla marketing, although the the team missed a big..

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Ben Simmons lost all his swagger, and it only took three games

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..

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Phil Mickelson will make you feel ashamed because you don’t practice hitting shots ‘vertically’ off of rock-infested lies

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..

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Jason Day holds on to win Wells Fargo Championship

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 ..

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Sung Hyun Park chips in on last to win LPGA Texas Classic

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..

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Jason Day captures Wells Fargo for second win of season

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Jason Day shot a 2-under 69 on Sunday to win the Wells Fargo Championship by two strokes over Aaron Wise and Nick Watney, his second victory of the season.

After squandering a three-shot lead on the back nine, Day’s tee shot on the difficult 230-yard par-3 17th hole crashed into the flagstick and settled less than 3 feet away. He made the putt to take a two-shot lead, becoming the only player to birdie the hole in the final round.

Day finished at 12-under 272.

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Tiger Woods was a non-factor, shooting 74 to finish 14 shots back. He failed to make a birdie in the final round of a tournament for the first time since 2014.

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Langer wins Insperity Invitational for 1st title this year

THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) Bernhard Langer won his first PGA Tour Champions event of the year when he saved par on the final hole for a 2-under 70 and a one-shot victory in the Insperity Invitational.

Langer had to rally from as many as four shots behind in the final round at the TPC Woodlands. He birdied two straight holes around the turn, added birdies on both par 5s on the back nine and then had to scramble for par.

Paul Goydos (68) led for much of the back nine until a bogey on the 18th hole. He tied for second with Jeff Maggert and Bart Bryant, who each had a 69.

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The 60-year-old Langer won for the 37th time on the PGA Tour Champions, which trails only Hale Irwin’s 45. It was Langer’s fourth win at the Insperity Invitational.

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Ireland wins GolfSixes on European Tour

ST. ALBANS, England (AP) Ireland won the second edition of the European Tour’s innovative GolfSixes tournament as Gavin Moynihan and Paul Dunne beat the French pair of Romain Wattel and Mike Lorenzo-Vera in the final on Sunday.

The Irish overcame the England Women’s team of Charley Hull and Georgia Hall 2-0 in the quarterfinals of the six-hole matchplay event, then beat South Korea in the semifinals, with Moynihan chipping in for a birdie on the first playoff hole.

Moynihan and Dunne then defeated France 2-0 at Centurion Club to secure the first prize of 100,000 euros each. That almost doubled Moynihan’s career earnings on the European Tour, for just two days’ work. The 23-year-old player has not made a halfway cut in eight events this season.

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The European Women’s team of Mel Reid and Carlota Ciganda lost to Australia in the quarterfinals. But the fact that both women’s teams, who were rank outsiders, advanced from the group stage was a boost for the wom..

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