ATLANTA (AP) All 30 players who made it to the Tour Championship have a mathematical shot at the FedEx Cup and its $10 million prize.

That includes Pat Perez, the No. 11 seed, who calculated his own odds of winning.

”All the top guys would have to play bad, which they haven’t done all year,” Perez said Wednesday. ”So for them to all do it at once, and me win, it’s about the same odds as the Powerball.”

These sobering words come from perhaps the happiest guy at East Lake.

Perez finished 40th on the money list in 2002, his rookie year. He never has come seriously close to losing his full PGA Tour card in 16 years. But it took him until now, at age 41, to reach the Tour Championship for the first time.

He is among eight players at East Lake for the first time. He also is the oldest in the field.

”I didn’t think it was going to take me 16 years to get here, but it has, and I’m just going to enjoy every minute of it,” Perez said. ”It’s awesome to be here. That’s all I can say, r..

ATLANTA (AP) All 30 players who made it to the Tour Championship have a mathematical shot at the FedEx Cup and its $10 million prize.

That includes Pat Perez, the No. 11 seed, who calculated his own odds of winning.

”All the top guys would have to play bad, which they haven’t done all year,” Perez said Wednesday. ”So for them to all do it at once, and me win, it’s about the same odds as the Powerball.”

These sobering words come from perhaps the happiest guy at East Lake.

Perez finished 40th on the money list in 2002, his rookie year. He never has come seriously close to losing his full PGA Tour card in 16 years. But it took him until now, at age 41, to reach the Tour Championship for the first time.

He is among eight players at East Lake for the first time. He also is the oldest in the field.

”I didn’t think it was going to take me 16 years to get here, but it has, and I’m just going to enjoy every minute of it,” Perez said. ”It’s awesome to be here. That’s all I can, reall..

After three years battling a bad back, Patrick Cantlay played in just 12 events in 2017, but the former college golf star somehow reached the Tour Championship

It's always a slippery slope when it comes to huge giveaways, or promises of donations involving five, six, or even seven figure numbers at sporting events. Free tuition for a half court shot? You better read the fine print first. Knock in a hole-in-one for a million? Hope the ball traveled far enough….
The latest of these “getting off on a technicality” situations came at the Los Angeles Angels game on Tuesday night, when Angels outfielder Justin Upton hit a home run to deep left center. Sitting over the left field fence is a giant, Sherwin Williams paint can that reads “ANGELS HOME RUN IN THE CAN – $1,000,000”. The building material company agreed at the beginning of the season to donate the one million to the Angels Baseball Foundation if any Angel hit a home run in the can.
It took 150 games, but it finally happened, when Upton's blast took one hop into the can. Check it out:
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Amazing stuff, right? Wron..

Oh Nintendo, eternal purveyors of childlike euphoria and public-GameStop-meltdown-inducing supply shortages, we here at The Loop see your latest winking, willfully obtuse little trick and we applaud you. Why? Because thanks to a few enterprising nerds—the fuel upon which this world runs, btw—we now know that embedded within the firmware of each Nintendo Switch, lies an honest-to-goodness version of the brand’s iconic 1984 links sim, Golf.
Supposedly a tribute to Nintendo’s late president and symbolic soul, Satoru Iwata, who helped to program the game back when Russia was still called the Soviet Union and Purple Rain was the biggest record on earth, this secret Golf easter egg—per Nintendo SOP—is not exactly easy to unlock, however.
In fact, if you already have a Switch, it’s very likely you can't. Ever.
You see, the first step toward accessing this digital “omamori”—Japanese charms that are believed to bring luck and safety to their owners—is to set your console’s date to July 11t..

The PGA Tour’s year-long schedule that began last October in California and featured tournaments that sent players from Hawaii to Mexico to Canada to England and back comes to a furious finish this weekend at the Tour Championship.

The tournament, which begins on Thursday, will be contested at venerable East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

The Tour Championship is the last of four events of the FedExCup Playoffs and the finale to the PGA Tour campaign for the 11th consecutive season. The top 30 players in the FedExCup standings following the BMW Championship are on hand this week chasing a total purse of $8.75 million and a chance at a $10 million bonus that comes with winning the playoffs.

Those who got cut after the three previous playoff events receive a little bit of the FedExCup’s $35 million bonus pool. Those who finished Nos. 125-150 in the standings each will receive $32,000.

The top five players in the standings — Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Dustin Johnson, Marc Leishman ..

The New York Times reported this week that your third-most effective means of wasting time in the mid-‘90s*, the TV show “Friends”, is enjoying a weird and unlikely second life in the unlikeliest of places: major league baseball clubhouses, where, for some Latino players, it’s become something of a language guide, a convenient and funny way into English, at least in the context of inexplicably wealthy Caucasian Manhattan twentysomethings who are all terrible at baseball. “Now that it’s on Netflix, I always put it on and watch it,” said Wilmer Flores, a 26-year-old Mets infielder, Venezuelan native, and guy who won’t have to worry about fitting it into the playoffs. “When I get up in the morning, I turn on the TV, and whatever episode is there I’ll watch and keep watching. I stop it when I come to the stadium. When I come home from the stadium, I pick up where I left off.”
This is great! We like “Friends”! “Friends” taught us all sorts of things and one terrible song too. But it’s hardl..

New York Fashion Week may be over, but the runway-ready looks are still pouring in thanks to TechCrunch, perhaps the last place on this semi-habitable space rock you would expect to find anybody wearing anything other than a pair of taped-up glasses and a Superman t-shirt. On Tuesday, however, Russian programmer Vitalik Buterin caused a sartorial stir, discussing his new “decentralized mining network and software development platform rolled into one” draped in an array of rainbows, UFOs, and unicorn llamas, but it was Udacity founder and autonomous driving pioneer Sebastian Thrun who made the biggest splash, taking the stage wearing a living, breathing, barking, shitting husky puppy like a necklace.
No, we’re not kidding.
FacebookPinterestFrom Dr. Evil to Dr. Claw, and even Ernst Stavro Blofeld in between, humanity’s most infamous super villains have long demonstrated an affinity for malevolent hench-i-mals (hell, even Voldemort had a snake), and Thrun—shaved head, puppy strapped to hi..

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