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Not that the membership of the Augusta National Golf Club ever lacked power or influence, but as the world of professional golf heads toward having dueling and rival high-end tours, it may be Augusta National, and that little tournament it runs each April down in Georgia, that has the most of whatever sway still remains.

(Warning: This story contains graphic allegations of sexual misconduct.) It’s clear now. During Deshaun Watson’s pathetic introductory news conference with the Cleveland Browns in March, as Browns general manager Andrew Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski spoke of having confidence in “Deshaun the person,” that very person claimed more than once he has “never assaulted,

PHILADELPHIA – The best thing to do when you find yourself aboard a sinking ship is to locate and plug the leak or leaks. Perhaps the second best thing to do is anything at all. Two things can be true simultaneously: The Phillies are playing better now that Joe Girardi has been fired in favor

SAN FRANCISCO — Boston Celtics center Al Horford doesn’t have the prettiest shooting form, but the end results are to be respected. The Golden State Warriors should have a new level of respect for the distance in which the 15-year veteran can launch it. Horford was one of the NBA Finals’ Game 1 heroes, producing

Deshaun Watson‘s attorneys appeared on a Houston sports radio station on Friday to discuss the 23 civil lawsuits against the Cleveland Browns quarterback, all of them from women alleging varying levels of sexual impropriety they were subjected to during massage appointments with Watson. Toward the end of the interview, attorney Rusty Hardin made a blithe

[Follow: Celtics-Warriors in Game 1 of NBA Finals] This is the Boston Celtics‘ first time in the NBA Finals since 2010, when they lost to Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers in a seven-game series. Jayson Tatum was 12 years old, Jaylen Brown was 13 and Marcus Smart 16, each young hoopers dreaming of

Imagine if Russell Wilson — Super Bowl champion, veteran still very much in his prime, ranked No. 12 on the NFL’s Top 100 list last year — had jumped from Seattle to the USFL’s Birmingham Stallions. With that one move, the USFL would go from afterthought to curiosity. Wilson’s move would give the league a

After deftly evading the grasp of law enforcement agencies for more than a decade, the world’s most notorious arms trafficker made a reckless mistake. Viktor Bout risked venturing outside of Russia, the one place where his close ties to high-ranking government and military officials offered him tacit protection, the one place where he could feel

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They had not unleashed a single shot for nearly 60 minutes. They’d been saved by a post, and by the sprawling limbs of a goalkeeper, but for almost an hour, the underdogs in the 2022 Champions League final seemed to be delaying the inevitable. They were outclassed, overrun, undermanned, and they would, surely, at some

Only the Las Vegas Raiders know whether Colin Kaepernick is still good enough to play quarterback in the NFL. Kaepernick tried out for the Raiders on Wednesday. It was his first legit tryout in years. He hasn’t appeared in a game since the 2016 season, when he started 11 games for a two-win San Francisco

Andy Behrens and I teamed up on an episode of the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast this week to offer up the five most interesting teams for 2022 leagues. A great idea by our producer, I decided it might be good to unpack my top five a little further here. A lot is going to change

TV: TNT, 9 p.m. ET BetMGM line: Mavericks -1.5 After a thrilling conference semifinal round produced a pair of Game 7s, the West finals have crashed with a resounding thud. We have the peaking Golden State Warriors and outmatched Dallas Mavericks to thank. History suggests the Mavericks are toast. That doesn’t mean there’s nothing to

TV: ABC, 8:30 p.m. ET BetMGM line: Celtics -6.5 At first glance Saturday, it looked like we were in store for a third straight blowout in the Eastern Conference finals. Though the Celtics eventually climbed out of a 26-point hole, the Miami Heat held on to take a 2-1 series lead over Boston headed into

TV: TNT, 9 p.m. ET BetMGM line: Mavericks -2.5 For a half Friday, the Dallas Mavericks looked poised to tie the Golden State Warriors at 1-1 in the Western Conference finals. Luka Doncic was the best player on the court with 24-first half points as Dallas took a 14-point edge into halftime. Then the wheels

TV: ESPN, 8:30 p.m. ET BetMGM line: Celtics -6.5 Time for a close game? The first two games of the Eastern Conference finals have been blowouts. Now that the series is headed to Boston for the first time, it might finally be time for a close game. Boston responded perfectly to an 0-1 series deficit