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Golfweek Rewind: Tiger’s out for third straight week; Sungjae Im wins first Tour title

Will Tiger Woods play at the Arnold Palmer Invitational? Who won last week’s professional tournaments? We discusses on Golfweek Rewind.

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Tiger Woods is out for a third straight week, Rory McIlroy commits to an event he controversially skipped last year and Brandon Matthews is honored for an act of kindness that went viral.

Take a look at the week’s top stories on the latest episode of Golfweek Rewind.

Top stories

Tiger Woods will not compete at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, marking three consecutive events the 82-time Tour winner has missed. Woods’ agent Mark Steinberg confirmed to our Steve DiMeglio that Woods will not play at Bay Hill due to continued back stiffness.

Rory McIlroy has committed to the 2020 Irish Open, one year after he controversially skipped the event. McIlroy won the Irish Open in 2016. Here are the details surrounding why McIlroy skipped last year’s event and what makes this year different.

Brandon Matthews is our Unforgettable Person of the Week because of last season’s act of kindness that rippled into 2020. Last season Matthews was in a playoff to win the Visa Open de Argentina when a fan with Down syndrome made a loud noise, causing Matthews to miss a putt to extend the playoff. Matthews demonstrated kindness in the midst of his disappointment. The Arnold Palmer Invitational chose to honor that kindness this week at Bay Hill.

Professional golf recap

PGA: Sungjae Im earned his first PGA Tour victory Sunday at the Honda Classic by one shot. Next up on Tour is the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Orlando.

Euro Tour: Sami Valimaki won his first European Tour victory after a three-hole playoff Sunday the Oman Open. The European Tour season continues with the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters beginning Thursday.

More information on these top stories, how the coronavirus might affect the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo and what’s up next on the European and PGA Tours can be found in the latest edition of Golfweek Rewind, featured above.

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Watch a live stream of Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s public memorial

Watch a live stream here of the memorial of Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna.

The public memorial for Lakers great Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna will take place Monday at 1 p.m. ET in Los Angeles.

Bryant and his daughter died tragically in a helicopter crash last month, along with seven other people who were on board.

Fans lined up by the thousands to get into the Staples Center to attend the public memorial, which was a ticketed event. This event will be livestreamed and televised on BET for fans all over the world to watch, however.

You can watch a livestream of the memorial service via USA TODAY below, or on our YouTube page.

Fury – Wilder 2 highlights: See Tyson Fury’s TKO of Deontay Wilder

See all the highlights from Tyson Fury’s seventh-round TKO of Deontay Wilder.

Tyson Fury, the Gypsy King, avenged the previous showdown between the two and handed Deontay Wilder the first loss of his boxing career late on Saturday night in Las Vegas.

It was a comprehensive victory for Fury, and a disappointing loss for Wilder, who was never able to connect on one of his massive right hands. Fury scored a (somewhat) controversial knockdown in the third round, then knocked Wilder down again in the fifth. Wilder continued on gamely for two more rounds, but appeared unable to keep his feet under him at times.

In the seventh, with Wilder bleeding from his ear and getting pummeled in the corner, his corner finally threw in the towel, ending the fight.

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Despite Fury’s dominance, boxing fans stayed transfixed on the fight because Wilder’s ability to take someone down with one punch meant he was always in the fight. This time, however, Fury kept Wilder at bay, and no massive punch ever came.

See full highlights from the fight below:

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NBA Rising Stars were asked about the ’90s and their answers will make you feel so, so old

Prepare to feel ancient.

Revisiting ’90s nostalgia has, for many years, been an easy way to score internet points or drum up some conversation on a bad date. Nothing in common? You can always talk about Legends of the Hidden Temple. “Hey, I also loved that show!”

But, as always, the slow march of time goes on, and for young people now, that nostalgia is absolutely meaningless. Why would anyone under the age of 22 know what Full House is?

At the NBA All-Star weekend in Chicago, ESPN leaned into this, talking with members of the NBA Rising Stars game about the great decade of the ’90s. They do … poorly. It’s infuriating, but then you realize that Tyler Herro and RJ Barrett were both born in the year 2000, and it all makes sense. It’s sad, but it makes sense.

Someone get Herro a copy of Supa Dupa Fly, though. Please.

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Karl-Anthony Towns greets new teammate D’Angelo Russell on runway in perfect video

This partnership has been a long time coming, and Karl-Anthony Towns was waiting at the airport to celebrate the moment.

The partnership between D’Angelo Russell and Karl-Anthony Towns has been a long time coming —  the two young stars are friends, and have seemed destined to pair up for a while. As Towns himself says in the video below, “Spoke it into existence for years … the world gave us energy back.”

The two are now teammates, after a blockbuster deal which sent Russell to the Timberwolves and Andrew Wiggins and assets back to the Golden State Warriors.

Russell flew to Minnesota this week after the deal was done, and Towns wasn’t going to miss the opportunity to greet his new teammate. He was on the runway when Russell landed, with a new Timberwolves jersey … and a jacket. It gets cold in Minnesota! It’s a very thoughtful gift!

The coolest part of the video, however, is the clear bond between the two … and how excited Russell clearly is to be there.

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The NFL ‘Bad Lip Reading’ video is back and it’s better than ever

They’ve borrowed a great idea from Key & Peele and made the great series even better.

“Bad Lip Reading” is the funny and stupid (and I say that lovingly) video series in which people dub over fake dialogue over existing footage. They started doing it for the NFL a few years back, and it’s never disappointed. Doofy voices over your favorite players is objectively good content.

It’s back for 2020, and it’s predictably fantastic.

A nice thing they now do with these — they’ve channeled the perfect Key & Peele sketch and have now given people fake names while they’re introducing themselves. It sneakily might be the best part of the whole video. Original? Not really, but I’m going to frame it as a loving homage.

Watch the video here:

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2020 Super Bowl: The avocado pitting strategy you need to know for your game day party

How not to get “avocado hand” while pitting an avocado.

Avocados are everywhere nowadays, and Super Bowl Sunday is no exception. Seven-layer dip and guacamole are two popular items people serve, and, of course, they’re both are made with avocados (although they’re obviously the most dominant ingredient in one).

In fact, avocados play such a major role in Super Bowl spreads that the California-based Hass Avocado Board predicts 153 million pounds worth of avocados will be eaten Sunday for Super Bowl LIV, The Wall Street Journal reported this week.

The problem is that when people make these dishes, they tend to injure themselves while cutting or pitting avocados, leading to what is apparently called “avocado hand.” The boost in avocado consumption — thanks, millennials — has also led to an increase in hospital visits for avocado-related injuries, and those could spike around Super Bowl Sunday.

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According to the WSJ:

Researchers at Emory University, who examined the avocado-hand phenomenon in a study published last year, called the rise in cases “an epidemic of hand injury.” They used data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, which collects information on injuries related to consumer products.

The researchers estimate 50,413 avocado-related knife injuries occurred from 1998 to 2017, with more than half of them—27,059—happening since 2013. The study said it “likely underestimates the true national incidence of avocado-related knife injuries” because the data only looks at patients who go to the emergency room.

Now, there are a number of different ways to pit an avocado besides the blatantly dangerous method of digging the pit out with the tip of a sharp knife. You can dig the pit out with a spoon, remove the half of the avocado out of its skin with a spoon and then take out the pit or even buy a specific kitchen tool to make it work.

Well here’s one more, extremely simple option. A chef at a restaurant I worked at years ago taught me this easy trick that’s never failed, and — knock on wood — I’ve never injured my hand doing it.

Just follow these three steps:

1. Cut the avocado in half (duh).

2. Hack it (carefully)

With a sharp knife, gently hack the blade directly at the pit so it’s lodged in there.

3. Twist it

Once the blade is in the pit, rotate the knife in any direction, and easily pull the pit out.

Remember: Ripe avocados are the easiest to work with and often translate to the best tasting food. And a dull knife can be more dangerous than a sharp one.

Enjoy your avocado food on Super Bowl Sunday, and don’t cut your hand off!

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From Joe Burrow to Jalen Hurts, 2019 was the year of the transfer quarterbacks

Transfer QBs and Clemson’s playoff resume are among our biggest takeaways from the 2019-20 college football season.

Welcome to Before The Snap, For The Win’s college football show where we’ll break down the sport’s trending storylines, examine each week’s biggest matchups and track the College Football Playoff and Heisman Trophy races.

No. 1 LSU took down defending champion No. 3 Clemson in the College Football Playoff National Championship game Monday in New Orleans. Quarterback Joe Burrow stunned and enjoyed the victory like a legend, coach Ed Orgeron said he planned to celebrate with a ham sandwich and Odell Beckham Jr. was so fired up about his team winning that he passed out cash to the players, which the school then claimed was fake so they don’t get into trouble with the NCAA.

Sadly, this means the 2019-20 college football season is officially over. But we’re here to break down two major takeaways from this season.

First up, let’s look at Clemson. The 2018-19 national champions had their College Football Playoff resume called into question all season, largely because of the Tigers’ strength of schedule in a declining ACC, plus their slow start to the season (by their standards).

But judging by Clemson’s performance in the playoff this season, even with the loss to LSU in the title game, and its dominant victory over Alabama to win the national championship last year, it’s clear two things can be true. Clemson can simultaneously play in a terrible conference and be one of the best two or three teams in the country. Even though it didn’t work out this season, the Tigers deserved their shot at a second straight title.

Read more about that on For The Win.

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Looking at the 2019 season overall, perhaps the biggest takeaway is this was clearly the year of the transfer quarterback.

Three of the four College Football Playoff teams were led by transfer quarterbacks, who were all also Heisman Trophy finalists: LSU’s Burrow, Oklahoma’s Jalen Hurts and Ohio State’s Justin Fields. There are plenty of players who flourish with the teams they commit to when they’re still in high school, but that’s not the case for everyone. There are a variety of reasons some might want to transfer, but the NCAA needs to make it easier for players to do so — especially when coaches freely and regularly change jobs.

Take Burrow, for example. He didn’t have the starting job at Ohio State a few years ago, and transferring to LSU, a program of the same caliber, changed his life. Had he not transferred, there’s a chance he would have remained on the Buckeyes’ bench throughout his college career, meaning he wouldn’t have won the Heiman and wouldn’t currently be the projected No. 1 overall NFL Draft pick.

Similarly, had Hurts not transferred from Alabama, he would have remained Tua Tagovailoa’s backup and would have only started late in the season following Tagovailoa’s season-ending injury. Hurts played that game during the 2018 season, and it worked out for him in the end. But he transferred to Oklahoma, a program where he started in a system that allowed him to excel even more.

If Fields had stayed with Georgia, he most likely would have remained on the bench behind Jake Fromm. Instead, he led Ohio State’s high-powered and dynamic offense, and after only finishing his sophomore season, his future in college football is looking good.

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LSU releases ANOTHER jaw-dropping hype video, this time featuring The Rock

LSU has released yet another hype video ahead of the CFP national championship game against Clemson, this time featuring Dwayne Johnson.

It seems like a ridiculous thing to say, but over the last few weeks I can earnestly claim that my favorite filmmaker working right now is the LSU Football social media team.

Sure, Martin Scorcese has an arsenal of filmmaking techniques, Bong Joon-ho has an unparalleled vision, whatever. None of them have slow-mo videos of Joe Burrow walking into a packed stadium while The Rock narrates some badass nonsense that makes me want to run through a wall.

Every hype video is better than the last one, and the morning of the national championship game, they’ve gone and outdone themselves, with a new video called “I Remember Rock Bottom.”

Watch it, then dive through a plate glass window.

My understanding of these two teams, LSU and Clemson, says this game will be closer than people think. But after watching this video, forget it: LSU by a million.

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Tennis star Coco Gauff chastises her dad for cursing in this adorable video

Coco Gauff’s father and coach didn’t realize he cursed while mic’d up, so Gauff gently chastised him.

Coco Gauff is just 15, but she’s already one of the best players in world tennis. This week she was playing at the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, and during her match against Laura Siegemund they mic’d up both her and her father, Corey Gauff, who also serves as her coach.

The talk, which took place after the first set, is a great example of her dad giving her a ton of positive reinforcement, which at one point embarrasses Gauff to the point that she looks up at the ball person like, Ugh, dads, right?

That was good, but the best part was when her father said that Gauff hadn’t given up three points to her opponent’s “damn serve” which led to Gauff gently chastising her father, reminding him that he was mic’d up and he wasn’t allowed to curse.

Her dad, who hadn’t realized he had cursed, pleaded his innocence, but Gauff wasn’t having it.

“I cursed?” he said.

She told him he had, and then he bashfully apologized into the mic.

It was very cute:

Gauff would go on to lose the match to Siegemund. I hope the cursing wasn’t responsible.

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