Kevin C. CoxThings were going so good for the new-look Cleveland Cavaliers before the All-Star break. They had just ripped off four in a row, LeBron James was up to his usual, GOAT-level of play, and everyone was getting along in a drama-free environment, at least that's what it looked like from afar. Then, I gave them the kiss of death, guaranteeing not only victory, but a convincing victory over the Washington Wizards, a game they went on to lose 110-103.
Since then they've gone 2-2, with both of the losses coming by double digits at home, including last night's 108-97 loss to Philadelphia in which Cavs guard Jordan Clarkson whipped the ball at Sixers forward Dario Saric after a garbage-time dunk. Meanwhile, prior to the game, J.R. Smith was mysteriously suspended for “conduct detrimental to the team,” for a situation that Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said occurred after the team's shoot-around. There's no denying J.R. has done some dumb stuff in his career, on and ..

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Steph Curry is a man after our heart. He's got the smoothest J this side of Jesus Shuttlesworth, sure, as well as his own shoe line, but it's his love of golf that grabs our attention. He's teed it up with Jordan Spieth and President Obama, beat a handful of pros at a Web.com Tour event and has played Augusta National. That, my friends, is living life right.
Even Curry's proverbial mulligans are things of beauty. Evidenced by a quick glance at Curry's Instagram account.
Curry posted the following photo on Thursday after a few practice swings went wrong in his hotel room:
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Forgetting smashing a coffee table to pieces. The man brought his sticks on an East Coast swing knowing there was almost zero chance of getting out. That's what we calling having the bug.
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Harry HowAfter a year that saw the MLB break a 17-year-old record for home runs in a single season, whispers of the balls being “juiced” only got louder. The wild Fall Classic between the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers that featured the most combined home runs in World Series history (22) did nothing to quiet those whispers. It was so crazy that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred had to weigh in on the matter.
If anyone had the right to complain about the balls, it was the MLB's pitchers, and many did, including Red Sox starter David Price and Astros starter Justin Verlander, who said there wasn't “much of a seam on the ball anymore,” all the way back in June. But Verlander, who made the argument irrelevant in the playoffs by going 4-1 with a 2.21 ERA and striking out 38 batters, offered up another interesting take on Thursday night, saying he doesn't care if the balls are juiced or not:
https://twitter.com/JustinVerlander/status/969393648168308736
This is one of the m..

MEXICO CITY (AP) Tiger Woods is adding another tournament to his schedule on his road to the Masters.

Woods decided Friday to play in the Valspar Championship next week at Innisbrook, along with the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill the following week. It was another strong signal about the health of his surgically fused lower back, giving him four tournaments in five weeks.

Woods tweeted that he committed to play both tournaments after a ”good recovery week.”

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He has never played the Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Florida, though Woods has played Innisbrook. Three months after he turned pro in 1996, Woods paired with Kelli Kuehne in the now-defunct JC Penney Mixed-Team Classic. They finished third.

Innisbrook became part of the PGA Tour schedule in 2000. The Copperhead course is regarded by some players as one of the best tournament layouts in Florida because of the hilly terrain, tree-lined fairways and water that comes into play only on sev..

MEXICO CITY (AP) Tiger Woods is adding another tournament as he tries to ready his game for the Masters.

The PGA Tour says he committed on Friday to play next week in the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook. Woods has never played the tournament near Tampa, Florida, though he played Innisbrook when it hosted the old JC Penney Mixed Team Classic.

This will be his third tournament in four weeks on the PGA Tour since returning from a fourth back surgery.

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Woods tied for 23rd at Torrey Pines, took two weeks off and then missed the cut at Riviera and finished 12th last week at the Honda Classic. Woods also says he is playing the following week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, which he has won eight times.

Rejoice, my friends, for though the world is dark and increasing Russian today there is cause for UNABASHED GLEE, because not only has “Weird Al” Yankovic released a new single BUT it’s also a polka medley AND the polka medley is all songs from “Hamilton,” and YES the ricochet-bang sound effect is used right when it should be in “My Shot” and then it’s used LIKE 20 MORE TIMES. God, it’s like my brain had forgotten which synapses turned on the joy.
FacebookPinterest“The Hamilton Polka” is available from all your downloadable spots and is Yankovic’s first release in five years, following the absurd success of Mandatory Fun. (Yankovic has hinted that his days of releasing albums are over, and in the digital context singles like this make a lot more sense.) Yankovic and Miranda are slated to appear on Friday night’s episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, where they will almost certainly perform this medley, possibly with the Roots.
The two are old friends and mutual admirers: Miran..

Adidas is morphing its flagship shoe, the Tour360, into an offshoot model that very much resembles the ubiquitous sock-sneaker

To be fair, Brandt Snedeker seems to have great taste in birthday cakes. He picked a donut cake to celebrate his daughter's birthday on Thursday and it looked delicious. The only problem was that his daughter's name is Lily, and, well. . .
https://twitter.com/BrandtSnedeker/status/969282251438641159
Whoops. Don't beat yourself up about it too much, Brandt. The ol' Billy-instead-of-Lily switcheroo must be one of the most common confectionary personalization errors in the baking biz. At least the names rhymed. And at least Snedeker's wife didn't seem too upset by the mix-up:
https://twitter.com/MandySnedeker/status/969303152418803712
That whole “these guys are good” slogan only applies to the golf course. Although, again, Brandt deserves some bonus points for that donut cake. Still, he had one job. . .
https://twitter.com/tourwifetravels/status/969551641174315008
Yeah, we're guessing Brandt has lost birthday cake buying privileges in the Snedeker househ..

SINGAPORE (AP) The distraction of a chipped tooth proved to be no problem for Danielle Kang as she shot an 8-under 64 to take a four-stroke lead at the halfway stage of the Women’s World Championship on Friday.

Kang, who won last year’s Women’s PGA Championship for her first major title, equaled the course record at the Sentosa Golf Club to lead the LPGA tournament at 12-under 132.

”Never too bad to tie a course record,” Kang said. ”That’s interesting to hear. I like that.”

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Nelly Korda, whose sister Jessica won the LPGA Tour event in Thailand last week, had a 66 to be tied for second with fellow American Alex Marina (67) while Minjee Lee (66), Cristie Kerr (67) and Chella Choi (69) were a further stroke back at 7-under.

Kang, who discovered she had broken a tooth after falling asleep while stretching before shooting a 68 in Thursday’s opening round, had eight birdies, four on the front nine and another four after rounding the turn, to post her second st..