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The Los Angeles Clippers and the Houston Rockets agreed to a deal after Paul informed Los Angeles he would be signing with the Rockets in free agency. Rather than letting Paul walk for nothing, he agreed to opt into the final year of his deal and was traded to Houston. Paul was traded in exchange…
Rickie Fowler was in contention for his first major championship heading into the final round of the U.S. Open last weekend. The ninth-ranked player in the world instead was unable to make up a two-shot deficit after 54 holes and finished in a three-way tie for fifth. Making his first start since then, Fowler headlines…
Daryl Morey and the Houston Rockets did the most Moreyball thing ever on Thursday. They skipped the NBA Draft. Houston went full Moreyball. They entered the NBA Draft with two picks and exited with no new salary cap commitments while retaining and gathering assets for the future. By drafting a 19-year-old German who isn’t NBA…
We get a surprisingly star-studded field this week at the Travelers Championship in the week after Brooks Koepka took the U.S. Open. Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Jason Day and Jordan Spieth will all play at TPC River Highlands, which makes for a hell of a field anywhere, even more so the week after a major…
The NBA draft is a magical device. In the months leading up to and over its four-hour course, anything seems possible. Even the most skeptical curmudgeons talk themselves into this 19-year-old or that Latvian. In these hours, the players all believe they will be the next LeBron, or the next Nowitzki, or the next Draymond.…
The summer solstice is upon us: June 20th and the 21st will be the longest days of 2017 for anyone living north of the equator. If pagan rituals are your thing, this is probably a big moment for you. If not, the solstice is still pretty neat. Technically speaking, the summer solstice occurs when the…
To see Brooks Koepka on the 18th tee, with the village’s Holy Hill basilica tall in the distant background, was to imagine, if only for a second, a vision of the young Arnold Palmer, a strongman with blacksmith arms hanging from a running back’s shoulders. Yes, a guy could look at Koepka and see Palmer.…
After marveling at Rickie Fowler’s 65 and all those other low scores on Thursday at the 2017 U.S. Open, what happened on Friday? We saw TWO 65’s. But it wasn’t easy for everyone at Erin Hills, and to wrap up all the action, here’s our latest edition of birdies and bogeys: Birdie — World No.…
A pilot has suffered serious burns after the advertising blimp he was flying burst into flames and crashed over the US Open golf tournament on Thursday. The man was the only person aboard when the blimp crashed shortly before midday at the Erin Hills golf course in Wisconsin. The blimp went down in an open…
The final round of the 1985 US Open was anything but dull. Nerves frayed as each of the main protagonists took it in turns to seemingly blow their chance of glory. As Denis Watson sat in the clubhouse, wondering if his even-par total would be enough to earn him his first major, his mind must…