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..

Thanks to smartphones, and people who have a sense for the moment, we've been treated to some incredibly bad golf swing videos on social media. Many are a great reminder that some folks took that fantastic Arnold Palmer “Swing Your Swing” Dick's commercial as literally as possible.
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Last December there was that cringeworthy, twitchy swing from a Florida woman who actually got the ball airborne. A couple months earlier, another woman cranked one 200 yards with this absolutely insane move at the ball during a Web.com Tour Pro-Am. What you're about to see makes both of those swings and results look like Tiger's stinger hook at Sawgrass from two weeks ago.
Here's the video, posted by @mdgolfofficial, of a guy who is clearly not, shall we say… sober? I think that's a fair assumption:
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Aaaaaaand it's nap time. Either this driving range stays open very late or th..

Seemingly plucked from the script of a Judge Judy re-run, on Tuesday a New York judge officially evicted Michael Rotondo—age 30 of Camillus, NY—from his parents' home. Needless to say, if you thought your family was dysfunctional, you have nothing on the Rotondos.
According to court documents, the plaintiffs, Cristina and Mark Rotondo—Michael's parents—had been trying to convince their son to move out for months via a series of notes urging him to begin looking for job, get his busted car out of the driveway, and sell off his collection of weapons because not only did he need the money, but non-parental landlords don't take kindly to large weapon stockpiles for whatever reason. They even gave him $1,000 to help him find an apartment, but Michael, who has lived in the family home for eight years without contributing to expenses or even day-to-day chores, used the money for general expenses (read: new DLC content for The Witcher 3) instead of moving.
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Bubba Watson’s dad wanted him to play baseball. Needless to say, sticking with golf instead during high school has worked out pretty well for the 10-time PGA Tour winner and two-time Masters champ.
It has also allowed him to carry on his love for the game he left behind. In 2015, Watson became part owner of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, an independent league team in his hometown, and his success on the course has led to multiple opportunities to throw out the first pitch at a number of stadiums across Major League Baseball.
Tuesday, Watson got the royal treatment at Wrigley Field. I mean, really, is there a better place to do so in all of baseball? (Full disclosure, I’m a longtime Cubs fan.)
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Before the game, he posed for pics with the Cubs’ power trio of Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo and Kyle Schwarber, then, instead of taking batting practice stuck with what he knows best and hit a few golf balls into the outfield (no need to hit them over ..

Leona Maguire ended her four years at Duke with the lowest stroke average in D-I history, putting her in the discussion for the best college career of all-time

If we've learned anything from LaVar Ball's parenting, it's always the coach's fault. No matter the level of competition or country — in the case of the Balls' failed foray in Turkey — you always blame the person calling the plays. But for all of Ball's bluster, one Westchester (N.Y.) town found a new way to publicly point the finger at a pair of high school baseball coaches. With a plane.
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That's right, a plane towing a banner calling for two coaches to be fired flew over a Briarcliff High School baseball game on Tuesday. Have a look:
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Just a tad, um, over the top, no?
“Yesterday's flyover served to highlight what can happen when adults lose perspective on high school sports,” Briarcliff schools superintendent Jim Kaishian told The Journal News/lohud.com. “In an attempt to promote self-interest, some adults become wi..

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The PGA Tour's relationship with video-game mega giant EA Sports dates back to 1990, with the hugely popular Tiger Woods franchise debuting in 1999, drawing millions into golf's video-game universe. It appears that partnership has now ended, at least for the time being.
The tour announced on Monday an agreement with lesser-known developer HB Studios to produce the tour's licensed video game starting in 2019. The game will be called “The Golf Club 2019,” keeping the name from the developer's previous golf game “The Golf Club,” which included the ability to design your own golf courses. According to GameSpot.com, all existing Rory McIlroy PGA Tour games will be pulled off the shelves, but an EA Sports representative also told the gaming website: “We continue to have an ongoing relationship with the PGA Tour.” It's unclear what that might mean for the future, but for the time being, the licensing agreements have not been renewed for a new game this year.
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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) If the U.S. Open was suffering from an identity crisis, then a return to Shinnecock Hills should cure that.

But only to a point.

Jack Nicklaus was the strongest voice of concern a year ago, and it was easy to see why. The U.S. Open went to two modern courses in three years, Chambers Bay in 2015 and Erin Hills in 2017. The landing zones at Erin Hills were nearly wide enough on some holes to fit three fairways from a U.S. Open that Nicklaus grew up playing. It wasn’t necessarily a bad test, just a different one.

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And for those who spent the better part of four decades playing them, it was puzzling.

”I think the USGA has gotten away from their identity with what they’re doing,” Nicklaus said, though he conceded that Chambers Bay was unique and he had not been to Erin Hills or seen the way courses were set up.

He remembers a U.S. Open with narrow fairways, thick rough and firm, fast green. The ultimate test, he called it.

”I’m old-fa..

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