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Weekend winners
› Everyone involved in getting Austin Schneider, a senior basketball manager who dressed for Silverdale Baptist, the game’s first bucket Friday on senior night. Schneider has overcome a slew of medical hardships, including a stroke. Here’s more from TFP sports editor Stephen Hargis, and friends, very few folks do these stories as well as Hargis does.
› Rory McIlroy. Winning at Pebble Beach is a pretty great start to the season for just about anyone. For Rory — one of the bona fide one-named superstars still competing and contending on a weekly basis on the PGA Tour — this win (his 27th PGA win) is a great precursor to a season in which he hopes to end a more-than-decade major-less streak.
› Auburn Tigers basketball. On a weekend when a record 11 AP-top-25 teams were knocked off, the Tigers continued to roll through the best conference in the country. Question for the group: AU has 10 regular-season games left — seven against ranked foes — and if the Tigers, who are 12-1 in Quad 1 games, lost out, they still would be a tournament team, right?