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Alejandro Tosti may have been a non-factor during Sunday’s final round of the Houston Open despite starting the day in second place, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t in the mix.
Tosti struggled out of the gate Sunday with a bogey on the opening hole and fell a handful of shots behind his playing partner and eventual winner Min Woo Lee in a hurry. While things appeared cordial for the first 90 minutes or so of the round, things got very interesting on the Par 5 8th hole.
Lee hit a wayward tee shot, leaving his golf ball directly underneath a bush well right of the fairway.

The second stop of the Texas two-step takes the PGA Tour to San Antonio.
The 2025 Valero Texas Open kicks off Thursday at TPC San Antonio, where Akshay Bhatia is the defending champion. There are plenty of notable names in the field getting one final tune-up before the 2025 Masters, including Ludvig Aberg, Hideki Matsuyama, Jordan Spieth and others.
NBC, Golf Channel, Peacock and ESPN+ are the go-to for viewing options for the Valero.

The Packers are going to have a different look on their offensive line this season.
General Manager Brian Gutekunst confirmed that free agent addition Aaron Banks is set to be their left guard while Elgton Jenkins will move from that spot to center for the 2025 season. Gutekunst said the team had “plenty of conversations” with Jenkins about the move and that they have high hopes for how he’ll fare in a move back to a position he played before entering the NFL.
“Obviously he played center in college,” Gutekunst said, via the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Former Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh used to always say that players made their biggest jump from either Week 1 to Week 2 or from their first year to their second year. You often see that when, all of a sudden, players that were unfamiliar to the casual fan suddenly become household names as they work their way into the rotation.
The Wolverines brought in several defensive linemen in the 2024 recruiting cycle and only one emerged in his first year — edge rusher Dom Nichols.

The Los Angeles Rams avoided a quarterback headache in February when they got a deal done with Matthew Stafford, keeping him for another year as their starting quarterback. The contract was agreed to on Feb. 28 but more than a month later, it’s unclear if Stafford has officially signed on the dotted line.
Sean McVay said on “PFT Live” Monday that he’s not sure if Stafford has signed the contract yet, but the Rams just sent it to him and his agent this week. It’s not that there are any holdups or issues. It’s merely semantics, McVay says.

The New York Yankees displayed custom-designed torpedo bats in their season-opening series against the Milwaukee Brewers, much to the chagrin of one of the opposing pitchers.
Reliever Trevor Megill watched as a few of the Yankees sluggers utilized their new weapons to amass 36 runs and launch 15 home runs (including a franchise record nine on Saturday) in the first three games.  The bats are designed so that the barrel is close to the hands, making them more effective at hitting home runs.

Dan Campbell is still just a football coach.
The NFL dropped one of my favorite things of the offseason: The official coach’s photo. Each year the league asks that all 32 coaches join together for a class photo during league meetings, and it never stops being entertaining.
What makes the coach photo special is that there’s seemingly never a plan for this thing. Guys just rock up in whatever clothes they happened to throw on and get herded like cats to get this shot.

Maro Itoje is on course to break the 30-game limit for a second year running – Getty Images/David Rogers
Leading England players are exasperated that player welfare guidelines will be broken for a second season running, Telegraph Sport understands.
As part of the Professional Game Partnership between the Rugby Football Union, Premiership Rugby and the Rugby Players’ Association that came into effect last September, a new limit of 30 games per season was introduced.