SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) All six people aboard a small plane were killed when it crashed on a golf course in a Phoenix suburb shortly after taking off from a nearby airport, police said Tuesday.

The identities of those killed in the Monday night crash in Scottsdale have yet to be released. Nobody on the ground was hurt, said Officer Kevin Watts, a Scottsdale Police Department spokesman.

Watts said the plane had just taken off from the Scottsdale Airport, but no information was immediately available on its planned destination.

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The plane went down on the TPC Scottsdale Champions Golf Course. That course is the sister to the Stadium Course where the Waste Management Phoenix Open is held each February.

Investigators were at the site Tuesday morning, examining the burned wreckage next to a tree on a dirt area, with seven vehicles parked on nearby turf and others nearby.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the crash and no in..

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) Authorities say no one survived a fiery plane crash Monday night on a suburban Phoenix golf course adjacent to the grounds where the PGA Tour holds a popular tournament.

ABC15 reports that emergency crews responded to the TPC Scottsdale Champions Golf Course, the sister course to the Stadium Course where the Waste Management Phoenix Open is held each February.

Police say multiple people onboard died, but the exact number was not immediately released. Nobody on the ground was hurt.

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Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer says the Piper PA-24 Comanche went down on Scottsdale, Arizona, shortly before 9 p.m. Monday.

The single-engine Comanche can have four or six seats.

Kenitzer says it’s unclear how many people were aboard the aircraft or what caused it to crash.

Sneakerheads, you might want to sit down for this one. With the NBA Playoffs set to tip off this weekend, Nike has officially unveiled their latest, and potentially greatest, collection yet—a 16-sneaker free-for-all celebrating the most unforgettable postseason moments in hardcourt history. Representing the sixteen games required to take home an NBA championship, the line is a mixture of retro and modern silhouettes from Nike, Jordan, and Converse, and is already stirring up nostalgia in the hearts of basketball fans everywhere. Check out a few of the highlights below:
Nike Air Maestro II “Trifecta”
FacebookPinterestMoment: Scottie Pippen's historic triple double in the game 2 of the 1993 NBA Finals, when the sidekick-turned-superhero put up a 15-12-12 performance, including a pivotal late-game block on Danny Ainge.
Converse Fastbreak Hi “No Easy Buckets”
FacebookPinterestMoment: Kevin McHale's series-defining clothesline of Kurt Rambis in game 4 of the 1984 NBA Finals. Needl..

The PGA Tour is foremost a collection of independent contractors, in which players primarily answer to a constituency of one. That's why the Zurich Classic of New Orleans stands apart, because the two-man team format invites a whole host of considerations that go ignored the rest of the year
Do you wear a team uniform? Do you stay in the same hotel as your partner? And if you don't stay in the same hotel as your partner, do you at least offer to pick him up on the way to the golf course?
And now there's this: What will our walk-up song be?
Yes, in stealing a page from Major League Baseball, professional wrestling, and even perhaps a little bit of the Golden Globe Awards, the Zurich Classic announced Monday that “each two-man team will have an opportunity to select their walk-up song to be played on the first tee at TPC Louisiana” during the final two rounds of the tournament.
“Our fans and the players have enthusiastically embraced our team format,” said Steve Worthy, CE..

Andrew RedingtonTony Finau describes the moment he sprained his ankle at the Par 3 Contest at the Masters as embarrassing. Which, for an athlete of his caliber, is understandable. Falling over while running backwards after making a hole in one probably isn’t the scene you want to leave imprinted in fans’ minds. But I don’t think the people watching were thinking ‘Oh, he just embarrassed himself.’ No. They were thinking ‘Wow I think he just broke his ankle.’
What looked like a total dislocation and snapped bones turned out to be a sprain. Which was great news for Finau, because it meant he got to play in his first Masters. After rounds of 68-74-73-66, Finau finished in a tie for 10th place. All the while, he smiled and joked through press conferences, saying things about his ankle like, “My foot started to feel better the more I played,” and “It feels a lot better than it did yesterday.”
He was nonchalant, brushing off the fact that his ankle was bound so tight in tape that he had a ver..

Somewhere, Happy Gilmore is shedding a tear.
The NHL playoffs are about to begin, and if you’re like most sane sports fans, you haven’t watched a single minute of the regular season. (And if you’re one of those lost souls who does watch the October-to-March plat, God bless ya.) Unfortunately, you may have a hard time finding the postseason games this year. NBC has the rights to the sport, so, theoretically, the Peacock and its NBC Sports channel should be the home for all your bearded-men-falling-down-on-ice action, yes?
Not quite.
The Golf Channel, also under the NBC umbrella, will broadcast two first-round Game 4s next week. Stranger, it’s not because hockey will be on the other NBC-affiliated channels:
https://twitter.com/travisyost/status/983200210162610176
Golf Channel is expected to only call the first-round games. Worse, they won't be worked by Golf Channel crew. I was really looking forward to hearing Rich Lerner wax poetic on hot goalies while Brandel Chamblee takes today..

Get ready to cash in that 401K, liquidate your stock portfolio, smash your daughter's piggy bank, and move into a Top Ramen-stocked Winnebago for the next four years, because the world's first space hotel has been announced and it ain't cheap. The ambitious brainchild of Houston-based Orion Span Inc., the so-called Aurora Space Station—the world's first “luxury” space hotel, in case you were worried about staying in some interstellar Red Roof Inn or something—is poised to launch in 2021, offering a 12-night stay package for a whopping $9.5 million (or $792,000 a night) PER PERSON.
https://twitter.com/OrionSpan/status/981942319850106880
This is no Margaritaville, however. Drifting 200 miles above the surface of the planet, the Aurora Space Station has as many limitations as it does innovations, including a four-guest capacity (plus two-crew), cramped quarters (about the size of a private jet cabin), and probably a lot of freaking Tang.
“We’re not selling a hey-let’s-..

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) One of the messages Patrick Reed received for his hard-earned Masters victory came from Tiger Woods, who added a personal touch to his tweet of congratulations .

”At worst you have assured yourself a captain’s pick for next year’s Presidents Cup,” he wrote.

That’s still 20 months away in Australia and on nobody’s mind except for Woods’, mainly because he’s the U.S. captain for the 2019 matches. Much closer on the calendar is the Ryder Cup in France at the end of September. Reed moved to the top of the standings by capturing his first major.

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If he wasn’t already a lock, he is now.

For the last four years, the Ryder Cup has defined Reed’s success in golf. He earned his way onto the last two teams by winning tournaments, including a World Golf Championship at Doral and a FedEx Cup playoff event at Bethpage. And as much as Reed boasted after the 2014 victory at Doral that he considered himself one of the top 5 players in the world, he didn..

Golf Channel analysts agree that Rory McIlroy, with Grand Slam within reach, not 'immune from pressure'

Patrick Reed emerges as the Masters champ, handling the Sunday pressure to win by 1. Did the final round live up to the hype? We discuss on the latest podcast