Author: Michael

Most of the baseball world has spent the past few weeks criticizing the Los Angeles Dodgers for the crime of attempting to build the best possible team. The Dodgers, the argument goes, are bad for baseball because, unlike other organizations, they aren’t refusing to sign free agents in an attempt to make more profit. 
Part of the Dodgers’ strategy to accumulate more talent, especially in high-tax California, is to use deferred contracts. Deferred money, essentially salary paid out after a player retires, can be beneficial for both the free agent and the team.

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Max Homa during the first round of the 2025 Farmers Insurance Open. | Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images
Max Homa turned in a ridiculous front nine on Torrey Pines’ South Course, one you need to see to believe.
Renowned broadcaster, podcaster, and golf journalist Shane Bacon coined a now famous expression within the golfing lexicon: a “psycho scorecard,” which is used to describe a player’s round that is, frankly, all over the place.
Max Homa’s front nine at Torrey Pines on Wednesday fits that billing.

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Throwing on a red firesuit and hopping behind the wheel of a Ferrari is one of the coolest things you can do in Formula 1, and Lewis Hamilton — who has done pretty much everything else you can do in the sport — finally got the chance to do that Wednesday.
Hamilton is getting his Ferrari tenure underway after a monstrously successful decade with Mercedes. 
Earlier in the week he visited the team headquarters in Maranello, where he was mobbed by ecstatic Tifosi (Ferrari fans) and snapped some photos.

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