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D.A. Points wins; Masters bound

D.A. Points wins; Masters bound

HUMBLE, Texas — D.A. Points came back from a long rain delay and made four pars. The last one gave him a one-shot victory in the Shell Houston Open and sent him to the Masters. Points [...]

AL West Preview: Angels gathering strength

AL West Preview: Angels gathering strength

Remember last year when the Los Angeles Angels acquired perhaps the two best free agents on the market, slugger Albert Pujols and crafty lefty C. J. Wilson? They went on to ride those guys to the [...]

NL West Preview: Giants rerun

NL West Preview: Giants rerun

Among Major League Baseball’s longest-running rivalries, the East Coast has the Yankees and Red Sox, considered by anyone east of the Mississippi as the most heated. But the West Coast has its own bitter-rivalry version in [...]

From planking; now ‘Dufnering’

From planking; now ‘Dufnering’

Golf trends move fast, and another one has swept across social media and beyond. First there was Golf Boys’ “2.Oh” music video” and then Sergio Garcia’s tree shot. Now there’s “Dufnering.” The new term was coined [...]

Does winning erase the past?

Does winning erase the past?

NEW YORK – Maybe winning doesn’t take care of everything. Nike is causing a social media storm with its latest online ad showing a picture of Tiger Woods overlaid with a quote from him, ”Winning takes care [...]

Tiger returns to No. 1 in the world

Tiger returns to No. 1 in the world

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods won the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Monday for his 77th PGA Tour victory and has returned to the No. 1 player in the world, displacing Rory McIIroy. Woods also won for the [...]

Recari wins Kia Classic in playoff

Recari wins Kia Classic in playoff

CARLSBAD, Calif. — It was starting to look like a par on No. 18 would decide the outcome of the Kia Classic. And then Beatriz Recari sank an 18-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the [...]

Tiger Woods going downhill

Tiger Woods going downhill

Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn are officially in a relationship. Woods announced on his Facebook page on Monday that he is dating the Olympic and World Cup champion skier. “This season has been great so far [...]

West’s teams NCAA prospects

West’s teams NCAA prospects

The West’s best college basketball teams are fully represented in the 2013 NCAA Tournament that begins Tuesday night. There are 15 West teams in the 68-team field, grabbing seeds ranging from No. 1 – Gonzaga (31-2) [...]

Stacy Lewis’ long climb to No. 1

Stacy Lewis’ long climb to No. 1

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The projections are now official: Stacy Lewis, the woman who spent nearly seven years in a back brace and had surgery to insert a rod and screws on her spine to overcome scoliosis [...]