Three Billboards Outside Cleveland, Ohio. No, that's not the porn parody of this year's Oscar-nominated Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, it's what commuters on I-480 just outside Believeland woke up to on Monday morning…
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A mysterious trio of advertisements designed to lure LeBron James to the City of Brotherly Love, the billboards—a back-handed power move by Pennsylvania's Power Home Remodeling—make their case with three simple selling points:
A new (literally) Big Three of Lebron/Simmons/Embiid.
The sultry allure of completing a process started by their fired GM who now teaches classes in Silicon Valley.
A hashtag, because this is 2018 and you have to have a hashtag.
When tracked down by ESPN's Darren Rovell, PHR co-CEO Asher Raphael had only this to say about the experimental use of company marketing funds:
“We're passionate about Philadelphia. We have an amazing city, it's
the b..

Lots of professions might see fit to relocate you—if Gary from sales wants to spot-reassign you to Grand Rapids, Mich., there’s not a lot you can do about it, even though Gary’s a fat sweaty jerk who wants you out of the office because he’s threatened by your success. But few employees are repositioned as speedily as our valuable professional athletes, who can be traded at a moment’s notice, without any warning all, to hypothetically someplace like Detroit, expected to suit up in a matter of hours and only notified because some 15-year-old retweeted SI’s hockey writer. (The world is awful.)
FacebookPinterestB BennettTo that end, today marks the NHL’s trade deadline, which means by 3 p.m. many of your favorite hockey players and other assorted Slovakians will be moving to entirely new environments (to say nothing of the rich-ticket MLB free agents who are watching spring training begin from the comforts of Scott Boras’s waiting room). But even hockey players are humans, and you can’t ju..

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) The U.S. Open is changing to a two-hole aggregate playoff, the last of the four majors to do away with an 18-hole playoff.

The change is takes effect immediately and would be used at Shinnecock Hills on Long Island in June if there is a tie after 72 holes. The U.S. Golf Association also decided to make its other three open championships two-hole playoffs – the U.S. Women’s Open, U.S. Senior Open and U.S. Senior Women’s Open.

The U.S Open has had 33 playoffs in its 117 years, all decided by 18 holes or more.

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”There was a time when they did make sense before television, before the modern era of wanting everything decided immediately,” said Mike Davis, chief executive of the USGA. ”There is no correct way to determine a tie in stroke play.”

The last U.S. Open playoff was 10 years ago at Torrey Pines, where Tiger Woods beat Rocco Mediate in 19 holes for his 14th major.

The Masters was the first major to abandon the 18-hole pla..

Thearon W. HendersonOn Saturday night, Warriors center Zaza Pachulia, in the process of pretending he was actually going to play basketball for a second, threw his 6' 11″ carcass softly to the Oracle Arena floor, a flop of Shakespearean proportions from the The Association's very own Tybalt. Typically, this wouldn't even be worth a hyperlink—Zaza is gonna Zaza, after all—but in the process of folding like an Origami swan, he accidentally, inadvertently, randomly just so happened to fall on Russell Westbrook's legs, reigniting a narrative that never really went away in the first place:
Zaza Pachulia is the dirtiest player in the NBA.
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So without, further ado/moral high-roading/rambling about how the Warriors, thanks to the ambulance-chasing dark-arts defense attorneys at Draymond & Zaza, have fast become the league's most unlikeable squad, we'll turn it over to some semi-legal YouTube highlights, which paint..

The R&A and USGA will celebrate the Walker Cup turning 100 by bringing the biennial match to the Home of Golf in 2023

The Academy of Golf Art is holding its Artists of the Game Exhibit at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Ga. from Feb. 24–May 13. Golf Digest senior photographer Dom Furore will be among the featured artists

Let me be the first to say that I'm thrilled that the FBI is using its vast federal resources to investigate college basketball. I can't imagine a better use of that organization's time, money, and manpower. In fact, I hope they put everything else on hold until we can get to the bottom of this, and if that means joining forces with the CIA, the ATF, the NSA, and perhaps a group of elite shock troops from the Department of Agriculture, I say “go for it!”
FacebookPinterestChris CodutoOK. Deep breaths. Turning the sarcasm faucet off for a moment, you likely know the story by now: A bunch of big-time college hoops programs seem to have worked with an agent to provide money, entertainment, lodging, and other benefits for recruits. The case involves wiretaps, financial records, emails, and various other records, and has already implicated Arizona coach Sean Miller, who discussed a $100,000 payment to a recruit with a runner who worked for the sports agent Andy Miller. Apparen..

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) Justin Thomas is another young player that Tiger Woods has brought into his golfing circle, not only spending time with him but sharing some of his experience that led to 79 victories on the PGA Tour.

As recently as last week at Riviera, when Thomas was within range of the lead going into the final round, he said Woods sent him a text to dispense some advice and wish him well. That changed on the eve of the final round of the Honda Classic.

”Got crickets last night,” Thomas said with a laugh.

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That’s because Woods was playing, and he was playing well.

Just not as good as Thomas.

Thomas delivered a moment that so many times belonged to Woods on Sunday. He was tied for the lead with Luke List on the par-5 18th at PGA National, with List already on the green and some 35 feet away for eagle while Thomas had to lay up from the rough.

He needed a birdie to have any chance of a playoff, and his gap wedge from 117 yards was so pur..

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) Justin Thomas was down to his last chance when he delivered his most clutch shot of the final round in the Honda Classic.

Turns out he wasn’t finished.

Thomas nearly holed a gap wedge on the par-5 18th hole for a birdie to force a playoff with Luke List. Moments later, he hit 5-wood over the water, urged it to keep going and lost it momentarily in the darkening sky over PGA National.

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”All I was looking at was the water to see if it splashed,” Thomas said. ”And it didn’t. So I figured I was in the bunker, and then people started clapping and I could kind of see some little white dot on the green.”

That set up a two-putt birdie that made him a winner when List, who hit his own bold shot in regulation to the 18th to set up birdie, could only manage par in the playoff.

Thomas closed with a 2-under 68 and won for the second time this season. He also won in a playoff at the CJ Cup in South Korea last fall. With eight career vict..

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) Justin Thomas nearly holed a wedge that got him into a playoff, and then hit 5-wood over the water and onto the 18th green for a two-putt birdie to beat Luke List on the first extra hole Sunday to win the Honda Classic.

Thomas closed with a 2-under 68 and won for the second time this season. He also won in a playoff at the CJ Cup in South Korea last fall.

Thomas and List matched birdies and tough pars over the final eight holes, and List appeared to have a big advantage on the par-5 18th when he hit a big drive that left him a 4-iron he hit onto the back of the green. Thomas was in the left rough and had to lay up instead of taking on the water.

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He hit a wedge from 117 yards that landed a few feet in front of the hole and rolled some 6 inches to the side of the cup, settling 2 feet away.

List, going for his first PGA Tour victory, blinked first in the playoff by missing his drive well to the right amid palm trees. He blaste..