Streeter Lecka (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)Tiger Woods returned to the winner's circle at Quail Hollow this week. Kind of.
No matter how the Wells Fargo Championship plays out, Woods is leaving with some hardware. That is thanks to Wednesday's pro-am, where Tiger and four amateurs—including a 17-year-old who gained entry through a writing contest sponsored by the First Tee—combined to fire a 56, bettering Xander Schauffele's group by a shot.
The craziest thing? According to Golf Channel's Tiger Tracker, it is the first career pro-am victory for Woods. Astonishing, considering Tiger has 79 real victories in 331 tour events.
Now, we're not petitioning the tour to include this pro-am triumph as an official win. But, if we're counting team events like the Zurich and 30-man fields like the Tour Championship and Tournament of Champions as sanctioned victories, Tiger's pro-am certainly has the same amount of merit, yes?
(Silence)
Fine, you monsters..

In case you haven't been paying attention, the Las Vegas Golden Knights are pretty good. Like, best expansion team in the history of American sports good. And while this might be news to you, it isn't to former NL MVP, manscaping specialist, and Vegas native Bryce Harper, who is all aboard the Golden Knights hypetrain, CHOO CHOO!
https://twitter.com/GoldenKnights/status/989706180816613376
On Wednesday night, however, Harper took his fandom one step further, sending a slew of custom Golden Knights baseball bats to the team while smacking his first-ever lead-off dinger with his own Knights-branded slugger 3,000 miles away. Fate or completely random happenstance? You bet your ass it was.
https://twitter.com/GoldenKnights/status/991834057515253761
In the end, the Knights got battered by the Sharks 4-0, and the bats did little to even the odds, but it's still comforting to know that despite the money, fame, and social media game, professional athletes are still psychotic, wal..

As part of the increasingly popular “May The Fourth Be With You’’ Star Wars celebration on May 4, the Seattle Mariners will be giving out bobbleheads of third baseman Kyle Seager dressed as Han Solo—although he is armed with a baseball bat rather than a blaster.
“I’m going to try to do (Han) proud,’’ said Seager, who says he binge watches Star Wars movies during the offseason. He added he will be play wearing a Mariners uniform rather than a Solo costume and won’t have Chewbacca by his side that game, either. “I won’t have that going for me. It will be just me out there.’’
FacebookPinterestSeager will not be the only Star Wars bobblehead on Friday. The Yankees will give away Aaron Judge bobbleheads in which the outfielder is dressed as a Jedi knight with a light saber.
FacebookPinterestThe Brewers will give out Ryan Braun bobbleheads in which he, too, will be dressed as Han Solo (with his hand on his blaster) and is identified as Braun Solo.
“Star Wars’’-related bobbleheads are given o..

Yoenis Cespedes is set to make $90 million over the next three seasons. We state that to state this: the following clip shouldn't earn the Mets outfielder your condolences.
In the first inning of New York's 7-0 loss to the Atlanta Braves Wednesday night, Cespedes made a hard slide into second base, a crash that shattered his necklace and sent diamonds all over the diamond:
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Cespedes was none too pleased with the incident, especially since he wasn't able to recover most of those gems (although a half-inning later, New York second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera and umpire Bill Welke appeared to pick up pieces of the necklace). It was a scene that evoked memories of last year's playoffs when pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. broke a black diamond necklace in a game against the Yankees:
FacebookPinterestYes, nothing looks more manly than crouched on the ground looking for jewelry.
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Recognizing the emotional and physical benefits of exercise, a golfer has championed using golf to help cancer patients

TARZANA, Calif. (AP) Katrina Prendergast and Ellen Secor turned a late deficit into a Colorado State rally to capture their first USGA title.

The duo won three straight holes late in the championship match of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball against teenagers Yachun Chang and Lei Ye and pulled off a 1-up victory at El Caballero Country Club.

In chilly, windy conditions Wednesday in the San Fernando Valley, Ye and Chang appeared to seize control by winning the 13th and 14th holes for a 2-up lead.

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The Colorado State teammates won the 15th hole with a par. Secor holed a 12-foot birdie putt on the par-3 16th hole to square the match for the fifth time. They took the lead on the par-5 17th when Prendergast two-putted from long range for birdie.

Ye missed a 7-foot birdie putt on the final hole that would have forced extra hole.

It was the second straight year that college teammates won the Women’s Amateur Four-Ball. Taylor Totland and Alice Chen of Furman ..

When I was young and the Simpsons were in their prime (Seasons 3-6), they could do no wrong. That was part their fault and part our fault. I laughed at the outsized stereotypes of Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel; Groundskeeper Willie, the angry, drunk Scot; Fat Tony, the Italian mobster; Dr. Hibbert, the token Bill Cosby black guy; and of course, Bumblebee Man, the Mexican soap opera buffoon.
And in spite of myself, I still find a lot of that stuff genuinely funny. The show sometimes, though not always, does a good job of making clear its intent is purely satirical. Some jokes, however, haven't aged well, and by “haven't aged well” I mean “have only recently been understood by white people as being super offensive.” Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the workaholic Kwik-E-Mart shopkeeper, is a case in point.
A recent documentary called “The Problem with Apu” mainstreamed (i.e., raised white people's awareness) the problem with Simpsons character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, a reductive moc..

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Patrick Reed took the week off before the Masters, and it paid off beyond the work he did on his game.

He also had time to get his eyes checked.

”First week ever wearing contacts, and I go ahead and make every putt I look at and win a golf tournament,” Reed said.

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Reed said he had been struggling with reading at a distance – specifically the menu guide on his TV – when his wife, Justine, had seen enough. Reed recalled one moment when his wife and her parents could see the words, but everything was blurry to Reed.

”So we went to the eye doctor and next thing you know, I could see up close, but I can’t see anything past about 30, 40 yards,” Reed said Wednesday. ”Everything was really blurry. So I got a prescription for contacts, put them in and all of a sudden I’m just looking out like, `Wow. I can see everything.’

”Now all of a sudden I can read greens pretty well,” he said. ”And it worked at Augusta.”

Reed received the contacts a w..

Here's the list of the 81 teams and 45 individuals to play in the six 2018 NCAA Men's Regional tournaments May 14-16.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Tiger Woods spent three months working toward one week in April.

The Masters has come and gone.

Woods took a small step back at Augusta National when he misfired with his iron play, didn’t break par until the final round and tied for 32nd. He finished 16 shots back, his widest distance from the lead in 19 appearances at the Masters.

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It was a big step forward for Patrick Reed, who slept three hours after winning his first major, woke up at 5 a.m. because he couldn’t sleep and responded to 155 text messages and about 180 emails.

”Every one,” he said with a big smile.

This is no time to rest. Golf shifts into overdrive starting Thursday with the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow, a course that hosted the PGA Championship last summer and boasts enough star players to make it feel like the next best thing to a major.

The Players Championship is the following week. Three major championships, starting with the U.S. Open at Shinnec..