Welcome to the 1,000 hit club, Justin!
As you surely know by now, Justin Turner reached 1,000 hits for his career last night. It came off a double in the second inning of the game. Unfortunately, his personal achievement would not lead to a Dodger victory. Nevertheless, I am sure it's a feat he never imagined accomplishing when he came to the Dodgers spring training came as an unsigned free agent in 2014. Per Alyson Footer at MLB.com :
“That's a big positive from tonight, and somet...
From Dodgers Blue Heaven
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Golf bag weighing you down? Did you know, even a light stand bag can weigh as much as twenty pounds on average after golf clubs, balls and accessories are placed into it. Over time, this extra weight can result in back, shoulder, and neck problems as well as taking your focus away from the game and placing it into searching for the Advil you had stuffed into your bag before the round. We would like to introduce you to a golf bag that is perfect for those who play executive courses, par-3...
From Golf for Beginners
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Hey baseball fans! Relievers are sometimes called firemen because, well, they put out fires, "relieving" the starters they replace on the mound by getting out of jams. This didn't come from nowhere, however, because it was actually the nickname of one of the first modern-day relievers baseball ever saw, Johnny "Fireman" Murphy. So, let's talk about him! When I started blogging about baseball history eight years ago, my grandfather, who grew up in the Bronx, told me about how he used to work in...
From Baseball with Matt
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Hey baseball fans! The Detroit Tigers are one of the most storied franchises of the American League, originating as a part of the AL's inaugural season in 1901. With this history comes many Hall of Famers, but no Detroit legend, whether it be Hank Greenberg or Al Kaline, can compete with the meteoric rise and fall of "The Bird," Mark Fidrych. Mark Fidrych was a non-roster invitee for the Tigers in 1976, officially joining Detroit's MLB roster in late April. He was lanky and curly-haired,...
From Baseball with Matt
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Do you know the brand and model of your wedges? Are they one of the best golf wedges for a beginner or high-handicapper ? When you’re just getting started in the game of golf, one of the challenges is how to build your set of clubs. Do you go out and buy them all at once or do you purchase them over time? A full set can be expensive, so most golfers will take the latter approach. Buy new clubs here and there and use borrowed clubs in the meantime. If this is your approach, where should you inv...
From Golf for Beginners
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While
the PGA Tour is back, and many golf courses have reopened, thousands of golf
industry workers and their families are still suffering from the Covid-19
pandemic. Vie, Inc ., a new sports and
entertainment philanthropy company, has invited golfers of all ages and skill
levels to participate in the “ Chip Shot Challenge ” to support the
Golf Emergency Relief Fund (GERF) and provide assistance to thousands of golf
industry workers impacted by COVID-19 . “We intend to launch the Vie bra...
From Golf for Beginners
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Hey baseball fans! The NFL recently opened discussions about changing the name of the Washington Redskins to something more appropriate. This has prompted the MLB to consider the Cleveland Indians, who got rid of their red-faced Native American mascot and logo, Chief Wahoo, in 2018 (on Columbus Day, of all days). The Redskins moniker is definitely worse than Cleveland's, but it still begs the question: if the Indians change their name, to what will it be changed? I'll be proposing five of thes...
From Baseball with Matt
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Hey baseball fans! It's Derek Jeter's birthday! However, because I'm sure some of you think I love him a little too much, we're not going to discuss the Captain today. Instead, let's talk about one of the best players who played in the state in which Jeter grew up. Yes, Mr. November is from New Jersey and rooted for the Yankees, but he attended and was drafted out of Central High School in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Let's see: who's an awesome player who played for the Tigers? Oh, of course! It's Mr...
From Baseball with Matt
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Picture this scene on a true links golf course with a 25 to 30 km predominant cro sswind...let's say, for arguments sake...St. Andrews Links in bonnie Fife, Scotland.
What clubs should you add/take out of
your bag for this round of links golf? This is what you need to do:
Take out of your golf bag (remembering to always keep 14 clubs or fewer at all times) :
• High lofted fairway woods
• Lob wedge
Add to your golf bag:
•...
From Golf for Beginners
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Hey baseball fans! Carl Yastrzemski is one of the greatest hitters in Red Sox history, but he was not the only star outfielder that graced the grass of Fenway in the 1960s. The Red Sox used to have a right-handed hitter by the name of Tony Conigliaro. Conigliaro was a great hitter for the first few years of his career, and looked to continue that trend deep into that 1967 "Impossible Dream" season for the BoSox. Then, in August of that season, tragedy struck. Tony Conigliaro debuted in B...
From Baseball with Matt
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Mobility in golf may be one of the most underrated factors that leads to playing better golf. You wouldn’t go run a race or play a soccer game without stretching properly beforehand, and golf should be no different! While amateur golfers don’t need the same mobility as a soccer player, it’s very important to warm up properly to play your best. In fact, studies have shown that .golfers are more prone to injury than rugby players or hockey players! Mobility workouts decrease your ris...
From Golf for Beginners
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Hey baseball fans!
It's a somber time to be a baseball fan for plenty of reasons, so I wanted share my story of how I fell in love with America's pastime. I don't think I really talk about how I got involved with the game much, but it's a story worth telling.
Back in 2007, Hall of Fame manager Joe Torre and the New York Yankees were in the American League Division Series against the Cleveland Indians. The Yanks had stars like Derek Jeter and Johnny Damon, while the Indians had recognizab...
From Baseball with Matt
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Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports
Hello Sonics Fans. I’m here to let you know our plans for this great site.
When we first brought this site into the SB Nation network it seemed like the NBA was about to make its grand return to your great city. I was thrilled to work with Brian and Kevin to integrate this community into our larger network of sites covering the NBA and was excited to have the best Sonics site in the world as part of our family.
I don’t need to tell you how that played ou...
From Sonics Rising
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Golf is alive and well in Myrtle Beach as this is one of the only outdoor sports which requires no group participation to have fun and where fist pumps (not necessarily "bumps") are the norm!
According to an email that I received, there are a few tips which golfers (and all of us) can practice to avoid the spread of Coronavirus - COVID-19.
Golf Tips to Minimize Exposure and Spread of Coronavirus (aka COVID-19):
At tee boxes, fairways and
greens, practice "social distancing" by kee...
From Golf for Beginners
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PGA Tour connects with ViacomCBS, Comcast/NBC Sports Group, The Walt Disney Company’s ESPN+
- TOUR will significantly expand its content offerings. LPGA will also receive
expanded exposure.
In my experience, golf beginners are so absorbed with all aspects of the game that they tend to flip to every event they can find, whether it be on television, or on the web. As you become more of a player, experience tends to lend itself more towards playing the game and watching the higher-level tourna...
From Golf for Beginners
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By now, most fans interested in Tiger Woods Masters menu already know what the Cablinasian is serving...does it make you hungry?
FYI...As defined by Wiktionary.org, " Cablinasian (plural Cablinasians) (rare, of Tiger Woods) A person who is Caucasian, Black, American Indian, and Asian."
The Champions dinner is a mix of sushi and sashimi, fajitas with possible milkshakes for dessert - that's fish, meat, and vegetables with a slider of milk at the end of the meal to coat the stomach ...
From Golf for Beginners
| almost 6 years ago
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Quora.com is a question and answer site that receives between 3,000 to 5,000 questions every day, so Golf for Beginners gathered a few of the frequently asked golf questions for our readers. Whether you are a beginner or have been playing golf your entire life, you will be interested in the responses.
You may think these are all basic questions but how many of you actually know all the answers?
5 Frequently Asked Golf Questions from Quora.com (click the links to...
From Golf for Beginners
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Golf for Beginners enjoys being objective about all news and wonders about the validity of some claims, so today we briefly review the infractions and conversations over Patrick Reed - is he really a villain? Did he break the rules in the 11th bunker at the Hero World Challenge?
Michael Bamberger, on Golf.com , stated yesterday that, until " Reed owns his rules blunder, he will remain hard to root for..."
Here is the video which alleges the rules violation that Patrick Reed has, indeed, ...
From Golf for Beginners
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SB NATION NBA BLOGGERS’ STATEMENT REGARDING RECENTLY ANNOUNCED CHANGES FOR CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS:
We are the bloggers. SB Nation calls us “ Community Insiders .” Deadspin has referred to us as an “ Army of Exploited Workers .” We call ourselves fans.
For almost 15 years, team site bloggers have been the passionate heartbeat of SB Nation. That heart skipped a beat when most of us learned along with the general public that Vox Media/SB Nation planned to terminate their independe...
From Sonics Rising
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2005 — 2019 | Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports
PLAY IT PRETTY Everyone wants to be free. That’s what this country’s all about.
—Ronnie Van Zant
It started as a joke, because “Free Bird” was the song rednecks loved to play when doing super redneck things, things you hoped weren’t contagious but wanted to try anyway. It is the song played in the documentary The Dancing Outlaw, while Jessco White and his friends party and drunkenly tear up someone’s front yard in a car doing donuts un...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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ON CLARITY
You know when you get old in life, things get taken from you. That’s, that’s part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out that life is just a game of inches. So is football. Because in either game — life or football — the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half step too late or too early you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow or too fast and you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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THIS IS YOUR FAULT FOR DONATING MONEY TO CHARITY YOU MONSTERS ME: Wow, I’m really proud of the Every Day Should Be Saturday community. I put out a request last week, and everyone really stepped up. Five straight days of donations, and ultimately, they raised over nine thousand dollars to support mental health services in Southern Indiana, and-
[clattering of claws on wood floor as someone shimmies out from under bed]
HOLLY: I’m sorry to support WHAT
ME: oh hey Holly, I didn’t know ...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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Happy Friday!
We’ve reached the end of our week-long drive to support mental health services in Southern Indiana, and you’ve put up some huge numbers. I’ll say it again: I’m deeply appreciative of this community, your generosity, and your commitment to weird numbers.
The link is still live, please donate or share if you haven’t already, and thank you from the bottom of my heart. You’ve put up some big numbers on the scoreboard, and I love that.
Because, fundamentally, when it comes to fo...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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THE MICHIGAN MONEY CANNON TAKES RETURN FIRE When we get charitable around here, we expect certain things.
You’re going to step up in a big way.
You’re going to use some clever numerology in how you make donations.
Somehow, Michigan is going to end up on top.
Through the first day, that bore out — our largest Monday donation was made in honor of Michigan’s 40-34 win over Ohio State in Brady Hoke’s first year.
Now, there’s been some volleys overnight — big shots from Texas A&M, Louisia...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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I’ll make this brief: y’all are great.
Yesterday, in the third day of our charity drive to support Personal Counseling Services of Southern Indiana, the numbers understandably slowed for much of the day, after a blazing start on Monday and Tuesday.
And then came the bombs.
A couple BIG evening donations, capped late by a $666 donation with only the comment “Run up the score three times as much as Heisman on Cumberland”.
I can only infer that our new champion — current leader for the Ga...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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