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Has Rory McIlroy missed the chance to not just be great, but be one of the all-time greats?

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Alfa Romeo hopes upgrades, and history, will lead to success this weekend in Imola
A season ago, Alfa Romeo driver Valtteri Bottas enjoyed his best weekend of the season in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
Bottas, and the rest of the team, are hoping for a repeat performance in this year’s event.
Alfa Romeo currently sit eighth in the Constructors’ standings, with six points to show for their efforts through five races this Formula 1 season.

Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. Did we ever get an update on the opossum living in the A’s stadium?
In today’s SI:AM:
Why the Eagles are basically a lock
Takeaways from the NBA combine
Georgia’s recruiting coup
A new USMNT star
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You can’t blame A’s fans
Bay Area residents looking for a little peace and quiet on a weekday evening, I have just the place for you to go: the Oakland Coliseum.

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Another year, another blown playoff lead for Doc Rivers.
Doc Rivers won an NBA championship with the Boston Celtics back in 2008. The only active head coach who has won more games than him is Gregg Popovich. But at this point, when NBA fans think of Rivers, one of the first things that usually comes to mind is his not-so-storied history of blowing series leads.

Yankees slugger Aaron Judge caused a stir by glancing at his own dugout in the middle of an at-bat Monday, and offered an interesting excuse when asked what he was doing.

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Now on his ninth team, Jeff Green is trying again to achieve immortality.
Time, a relentless flat circle, is a construct. But what does this actually mean? It’s a measure of unit, a way for us to order and make sense of what appears to be the linear succession of events, what we think of, and refer to, with our insufficient language, as “existence”, but even this doesn’t quite do our childlike understanding of time justice. Time is relative, depending on what point you may approach it from. We all experience time differently.

After a lengthy-decision making process, the United States men’s national team has added a key piece for its future.
Arsenal striker Folarin Balogun will play internationally for the United States, according to a Tuesday morning report from The Athletic. Balogun, 21, chose to represent the United States over England.
Born in Brooklyn to Nigerian parents, Balogun grew up in London and came up through Arsenal’s academy system.

Heading into his 14th NFL season, defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh remains a free agent. 
After spending last year with the Eagles, the 36-year-old is unsure of where he’ll play this season.
“I have no desire to be in a training camp,” Suh told NFL Network on Monday morning. “I will come in and watch and look and give some advice, but when Week 1 happens, I’ll be ready.”
Suh skipped training camp last year too, and it worked out just fine.

Get ready, Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal, Los Angeles Lakers’ center Anthony Davis may have the last laugh.
Sure, it turns out Davis needed that wheelchair late in game five of the Golden State series not much more than Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights, and you two had your laugh in postgame. Barkley even mimicked pushing the wheels at his side, saying he was “fixing his chair” on the set.

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Pirelli and F1 are rolling out some new tyre rules for qualifying ahead of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix
Qualifying will look a little different this weekend ahead of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. Pirelli, the official tyre supplier for Formula 1, along with F1 are introducing new qualifying rules regarding which compounds the teams can use during each segment of qualifying.
Called the “‘Alternative Tyre Allocation” (ATA), teams now see their total amount of slick tyre compounds for the weekend reduced from 13 to 11.