After guiding the Mississippi State women's basketball team to back-to-back NCAA championship games the past two seasons, Bulldogs coach Vic Schaefer bought an 80-acre plot of land near Starkville, complete with a 20-acre lake.
The 89th Major League All-Star Star game is 28 days away, scheduled for July 17 at Nationals Park in Washington.
Oh, the unfairness of it all. Having to dodge all that ridiculously tall, thick fescue. Having to attempt to keep that little dimpled white ball on those oil-slick greens. And the wind. When is the United States Golf Association going to build a giant, climate-controlled, wind-forbidden indoor course, complete with artificial turf, sugar-fine powder sand and bouncers to toss anyone uttering a discouraging word?
As a society, if we tend to place our moms on higher pedestals than our fathers, well, a lot of distant dads have earned that dynamic.
Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota told tales of sharks and surfing in Hawaii during the Best of Preps banquet Thursday night.
No sport is more obsessed with family trees than thoroughbred racing. Who's your dad? Your mom? Your grandfather? Your grandmother? If we've properly bred your sire's (dad's) endurance with your dam's (mom's) speed, could we have a Kentucky Derby winner on our hands? Or, even better, a Triple Crown champion?
Where to, LeBron?
The key takeaway from Rafael Nadal's 11th French Open crown in 11 appearances in the final wasn't that he won, preposterous as that stat is. It was what he said to runner-up Dominic Thiem after his straight-sets victory Sunday in Paris.
When it comes to the Tennessee Titans, almost everything about the NFL franchise will be new this season.
Say it's not so, T.O.
