With a 164-point over/under, Friday's Auburn-UNC game has by far the highest total of all the Sweet 16 matchups. But if you make just one bet this week (LOL one bet), you should wager on that over to hit. Why? Because we've got some vital inside info. From Auburn's Bruce Pearl himself.
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That's right, the Tigers coach let quite the cat out of the bag on ESPN Sportscenter with Scott Van Pelt on Monday night. When Pearl was asked about the meeting of two up-tempo teams, he blurted out, “I would just take the over, that's all I'm going to say.” The response drew a big laugh from Van Pelt—a man who loves gambling talk more than Jim Nantz loves Masters promos—and we'd be surprised if it didn't draw a call from the NCAA as well. Check out the amusing (and informative) clip:
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Phil Mickelson is a lot of things. Golf legend, kung-fu master, and budding fitness guru. Perhaps most importantly, however, he's a style trailblazer, equally at home wandering Augusta National in a dress shirt as he is strutting Sunset in his trusty leather jacket. So when Phil tells you he's feeling your drip, you say and please and thank you, sir. Just ask Haotong Li, who could hardly believe his luck when Phil sauntered over at the Dell Match Play on Tuesday to say what's up and compliment Haotong on his bold new headwear direction. Check out the pivotal moment in golf style history below.
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The best part of this video is obviously Haotong's reaction—a mixture of terror and elation that Phil even remembered his name, let alone noticed his new Powder-on-Safari lid. “It saves on sunscreen,” Li quips, barely containing his glee as Phil shouts “It's hard to pull off but you're doing it!” before wandering off to hit a few flop shots o..

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Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we are still trying to wrap our brain around the finish of the European Tour’s Maybank Challenge. Nacho Elvira (whose name is a trip in itself) had a huge clap of thunder disrupt his crucial pitch on the 72nd hole, posing an important philosophical question: Was that the doing of the golf gods or the real gods? The plot thickened when play was suspended for an hour and 40 minutes before he could putt and when action resumed, this happened:
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Nacho! Overcoming all the universe’s governing bodies! Well, until the playoff, in which he still wound up losing to Scott Hend. Whatever forces were in play really had poor Nacho twisting in the wind. Anyway, that made for a fun Sunday morning, but there was so much else going on in golf around the world. And unlike the Mueller report, you can read all about it here, so let's dive in!
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