After Wednesday night's vintage, five-hour Boston Red Sox-New York Yankees marathon complete with multiple bench clearings, a beaning and a “brawl”, many people are saying that the rivalry is back. While it's too early to say that definitively yet, the game was certainly entertaining, especially considering it's only April. But by far the best thing to come from last night came from the Yankees clubhouse after the game.
And no, we're not talking about any postgame locker room scuffle, or a war of words. We're talking about the Red Sox WiFi password, which was in plain view during Yankee manager Aaron Boone's postgame interview. Their network name and password is TOTALLY NOT what you think, guys:
https://twitter.com/MetsKevin11/status/984391549915189249
With passwords like this, the Red Sox will never have to worry about getting hacked. But if we're spitballing here, I imagine Dave Dombrowski's computer log-in is something like – Username: Preside..

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) The Orlando Magic fired coach Frank Vogel, one day after the team wrapped up its sixth consecutive losing season.

Vogel was with the Magic for two years, going 54-110. He came to Orlando after six seasons with Indiana, where he won 250 regular-season games and got the Pacers to the Eastern Conference finals in three consecutive seasons. But with the Magic, he went 29-53 and 25-57.

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Vogel had one year left on his contract with the Magic.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

NEW YORK (AP) – A’ja Wilson was the top pick in the WNBA draft by the Las Vegas Aces.

The South Carolina star post player will bolster the relocated franchise’s frontcourt. The Aces, who moved to Las Vegas from San Antonio this past winter, had the first pick for the second straight season. Ohio State’s Kelsey Mitchell went second to the Indiana Fever.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Lindsay Whalen is going to be busy this year: She was hired as the women’s basketball coach at Minnesota, he..

KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) Top-ranked Shanshan Feng birdied three of her last five holes Wednesday to take the lead halfway through a windy first round of the Lotte Championship.

The Chinese star finished at 5-under 67 at Ko Olina Golf Club. She is the first golfer from China – female or male – to reach No. 1 in the world rankings. She insists she ”gets more excited” in the wind, which should make Ko Olina an ideal site for her this week.

”A lot of people would be like worrying, thinking `Oh, my God, it’s so windy,”’ Feng said. ”I wake up and I’m like, `Yeah, it’s windy.’ That’s why in this kind of situation I still stay patient on the course and still stay with my routine.”

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Brooke Henderson, Haeji Kang and rookie Martina Edberg are a shot back in second.

Henderson, a 20-year-old in search of her sixth victory, fired a bogey-free 68. She is ranked 14th, while the pair she shares second with are a bit farther back.

Kang, from South Korea, stands at No. 295. E..

KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) Top-ranked Shanshan Feng birdied three of her last five holes Wednesday to take the lead halfway through a windy first round of the Lotte Championship.

The Chinese star finished at 5-under 67 at Ko Olina Golf Club. She is the first golfer from China – female or male – to reach No. 1 in the world rankings. She insists she ”gets more excited” in the wind, which should make Ko Olina an ideal site for her this week.

”A lot of people would be like worrying, thinking `Oh, my God, it’s so windy,”’ Feng said. ”I wake up and I’m like, `Yeah, it’s windy.’ That’s why in this kind of situation I still stay patient on the course and still stay with my routine.”

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Brooke Henderson, Haeji Kang and rookie Martina Edberg are a shot back in second.

Henderson, a 20-year-old in search of her sixth victory, fired a bogey-free 68. She is ranked 14th, while the pair she shares second with are a bit farther back.

Kang, from South Korea, stands at No. 295. E..

KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) Top-ranked Shanshan Feng birdied three of her last five holes Wednesday to take the lead halfway through the first round of the Lotte Championship.

The Chinese star finished at 5-under 67 at windy Ko Olina Golf Club.

Haeji Kang was alone in second, a shot back.

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Lizette Salas, who lost a playoff here in 2013, bogeyed her final hole to shoot 69. She was tied for third with Kia Classic winner Eun-Hee Ji and Alena Sharp. Sharp, fellow Canadians Brooke Henderson, Anne-Catherine Tanguay and Maude-Aimee Leblanc and their caddies wore green and gold ribbons in memory of those killed in the Saskatchewan bus crash involving the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team.

Defending champion Cristie Kerr shot 71. She played with 2014 Lotte winner Michelle Wie, the home-state star who double-bogeyed her 15th hole to finish at even par.

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) Dustin Johnson is not satisfied with his Masters’ history, no matter how many top-10 finishes he posts at Augusta National.

The top-ranked Johnson wound up 10th in last week’s major, his third straight appearance in the top 10 on the challenging layout.

”I definitely expect better,” Johnson said Wednesday in prepping for this week’s RBC Heritage. ”I felt like I played well enough to win last week.”

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The problem was simple enough to identify – watching putts not fall in.

”The thing that’s most frustrating is it wasn’t that I was hitting bad putts. I was actually hitting good putts, they just weren’t going in,” he said.

Johnson hopes to remedy that at Harbour Town Golf Links, a place the South Carolina native has not played professionally since 2009. Johnson, who’s won a PGA Tour event in 11 straight seasons, typically took a vacation after the Masters to shake off the stress that comes with the first major.

But as a newly s..

HILTON HEAD, S.C. (AP) Adam Hadwin of Canada, who finished tied for 24th at the Masters last week, has withdrawn from the RBC Heritage.

Hadwin is ranked 41st in the world and has finished in the top 10 in three of his previous eight tournaments. His finish at the Masters was his best showing in two appearances at Augusta National.

The PGA Tour said Wednesday that Hadwin gave no reason for pulling out of the event.

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American Sam Ryder, who had his best result of the season finishing fifth at Houston two weeks ago, takes Hadwin’s place.

Hadwin won the Valspar Championship in 2017 for his lone PGA Tour victory.

The RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links begins Thursday.

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As I watched my new, and inebriated, friend Chris top shot after shot on the range, it dawned on me I was watching the living embodiment of a proverb, one etched on pub walls across the world:
“Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.”
How does alcohol affect your golf game? For centuries, hackers have sought the answer. The prevailing notion is that one or two beverages serve as proper “swing oil,” loosening the muscles and easing those first-tee apprehensions. Others posit three-to-four drinks do the trick, with a vocal minority claiming a six-pack is their Valhalla. (These folks might be called “alcoholics,” but who are we to judge?)
Just as important? Knowing how much is too much. In essence, where's the line between feeling like Happy Gilmore—busting drives, going for broke, not a care in the world —to, ahem, acting like Happy Gilmore?
It's a line we set out to discover. I joined fellow Golf Digest editor Ste..

Bruce BennettOn Wednesday night the most exciting, most underrated and most heart attack-inducing (PLEASE LIKE MY SPORT) professional sports postseason begins: the NHL Playoffs. All eight series will be underway by Thursday, setting up an epic stretch of games that will have you channel-flipping in every possible direction in the hopes you don't miss Doc Emrick screaming “OFF THE PIPEEEEE…… with the shot.” The NHL postseason's first round is a party unlike any other, but there's just one problem…my team's not invited.
For almost all of my actual-sports-fan-understanding life (since I was 12), my New York Rangers have been in the playoffs, something that's had its share of ups and downs (pretty much all downs). While I was a “fan” as a child, I don't remember much from the seven consecutive seasons the NYR missed the playoffs between 1997-2004, probably because they sucked and children don't like teams that suck. The point being, all I know as a ..

Siblings. Can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em. Just ask former NL MVP and certified hair enthusiast Bryce Harper, who was caught giving his luscious locks the dual hair dryer treatment by his brother Bryan on Wednesday morning:
https://twitter.com/BryanHarper45/status/984079461749583873
By NBA standards, this is pretty tame. Dudes will be wearing eye-liner courtside by 2022, so a little double blow dryer action ain't no thang. Per the MLB's axe-swinging, skull-beaming code, however, Hansel's Harper's beauty routine will definitely earn him a couple of towel snaps in the ol' clubhouse. Harper should just own this, of course—it's not like his infatuation with his own hair is any big secret:
FacebookPinterestFacebookPinterestFacebookPinterestBut if you're wondering how he feels about this little invasion of privacy at the moment, well, let's just say this is not the look you give someone who's going to be invited to Thanksgi..