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Hovland went crazy low at the BMW Championship for the win. He then dropped a bomb that put into perspective what this round meant.
Viktor Hovland provided one of the best rounds of the season Sunday at the BMW Championship. Hovland shot a course record 61 at Olympia Fields Country Club taking away the record that Max Homa and Sam Burns set earlier in the week.
Hovland came home in 28 strokes and made 10 birdies on his round.
“Definitely has to be the best round I’ve ever played,” Hovland told CBS Sports reporter Amanda Renner.

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China’s grip on the NBA market and its athletes continues to strengthen. Anta, a growing Chinese sports company, signed another hooper to a deal. Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson joined Anta for an apparel deal set to debut in the upcoming FIBA World Cup.

Jordan Clarkson has joined the Anta family
Anta Philippines announced that Clarkson will exclusively wear Anta when he plays for in the upcoming FIBA World Cup.
Both sides are also in talks of an agreement that would have Clarkson wear Anta for the upcoming NBA Season pic.twitter.

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In the penultimate event of the PGA Tour season, Viktor Hovland just played one of the best rounds of golf of the entire year. Hovland carded a course record 61 at Olympia Fields Country Club during the final round of the BMW Championship. His nine-under round moved him to 17-under for the event, enough to overtake and shock the World’s No. 1 golfer, Scottie Scheffler.
Heading into the final round, Scheffler co-led the event alongside Matt Fitzpatrick at 11-under par. Hovland was three shots back at eight-under par. He and Rory McIlroy were tied for fifth place.

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Maxie Baughan—a nine-time Pro Bowl selection at linebacker for the Eagles, Rams and Washington—died Saturday, the Eagles announced in a statement. He was 85.
Baughan played for the Eagles from 1960-65, winning the NFL title as a rookie in ’60. He starred for Los Angeles from 1966-70, and came out of retirement to play one final year for Washington in 1974.
A Forkland, Ala., native, Baughan played collegiately for Georgia Tech under legendary coach Bobby Dodd.

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Down by four shots with nine holes to go, Viktor Hovland went nuclear to shoot a course record and win the BMW Championship.
Viktor Hovland blacked out on the back nine as he demolished everything in his path. He shot a final-round 61 to win the BMW Championship and set the course record at Olympia Fields Country Club.
Max Homa had set the course record Friday with a 62, which was then matched by Sam Burns Saturday.
This victory is his second on the season after he won The Memorial, and it marks his first FedEx Cup playoff win.

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There have been plenty of bad calls from home plate umpires across MLB this season (Ángel Hernández had another one this weekend), but the error from Junior Valentine during the Yankees–Red Sox clash on Sunday may be the worst of them all.
During the second inning of the AL East rivalry game, New York outfielder Harrison Bader took what appeared by all accounts to be a third strike from Boston’s Nick Pivetta.
The 0-2 four-seam fastball was almost dead center of the strike zone, and Bader even began walking to the dugout under the impression he’d struck out.

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Larry Bird is the villain as far as Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers are concerned in episode three of the second season of “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.”
“The Second Coming,” airs at 9 p.m. Sunday on HBO Max. OutKick received an advance copy of the show from HBO.
Johnson and Lakers’ owner Jerry Buss watch with disdain as Bird and Celtics general manager Red Auerbach puff victory cigars after beating Houston for the 1981 NBA title. Houston upset the defending champion Lakers in an opening playoff series, 2-1, that season.

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