Author: Michael

Tom Kim salutes the crowd at the 2024 Presidents Cup. | Photo by Vincent Ethier/Getty Images
Ahead of this week’s Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas, defending champion Tom Kim commended the PGA Tour’s current structure.
Maybe it’s because he has won the Shriners Children’s Open two years in a row. Or perhaps it’s because Tom Kim is only 22 years old—a man whose energy is comparable to the Energizer Bunny, as he seems to play almost every week.

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New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart shared her distress over a recent hate message, including a death threat, received by her and her spouse, Marta Xargay Casademont.
An email received by the family allegedly read: “I hope someone shoots your wife dead.” More threats were sent to Stewart, suggesting violence against the family.
The heckler, who has a history of online harassment, according to the New York Post, reportedly threatened Stewart’s family, which includes the couple’s two kids.

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Just over one year ago, I wrote an article for this fine website about the sport of conkers.
It involves competitors trying to smash other players’ chestnuts threaded onto strings with their own and it’s popular in the United Kingdom (see what can happen when there’s no Division I college football in your country?).
Last year’s concern was that the nuts were too soggy, and I thought that would be the last time I ever wrote about conkers, though that was largely because I used my best nut jokes.

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