Palmer was recognized as one of golf’s “Big Three” alongside the legendary Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player during a golden era for the sport in the 1960s. MORE: Classic Arnold Palmer photos McIlroy, Spieth and Day were labeled by some as golf’s new “Big Three” at the end of the 2015 season. And the trio were among the game’s top talents to pay homage to the seven-time major winner, alongside the likes of President Obama, Zach Johnson, Lee Westwood and Sergio Garcia....

Speaking to the media on Wednesday at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, Day touched on that incident and cleared up the idea that he could have stopped it from happening. MORE: Jason Day’s career in photos “That was the only time I got out of the house in three months and it happened to be on TV,” Day said, via Golf.com. “People that think I should have jumped in front of Ellie must have the fastest reaction time....

The top five players in points heading into next week’s Tour Championship in Atlanta have a chance to win the title. ODDS TO WIN 2015 BMW CHAMPIONSHIP JASON DAY 6/1 RORY McILROY 8/1 JORDAN SPIETH 10/1 HENRIK STENSON 12/1 RICKIE FOWLER 15/1 DUSTIN JOHNSON 15/1 BUBBA WATSON 20/1 JIM FURYK 20/1 JUSTIN ROSE 25/1 ZACH JOHNSON 25/1 MATT KUCHAR 30/1 HIDEKI MATSUYAMA 40/1 LOUIS OOSTHUIZEN 40/1 PATRICK REED 40/1 BROOKS KOEPKA 40/1 SERGIO GARCIA 50/1 HUNTER MAHAN 50/1 KEVIN KISNER 50/1 ROBERT STREB 60/1 PHIL MICKELSON 60/1 BRANDT SNEDEKER 60/1 PAUL CASEY 60/1 JUSTIN THOMAS 60/1 DANNY LEE 60/1 CHARLEY HOFFMAN 60/1 MATT JONES 60/1 KEEGAN BRADLEY 60/1 BILL HAAS 80/1 WEBB SIMPSON 80/1 TONY FINAU 80/1 JIMMY WALKER 80/1 BILLY HORSCHEL 80/1 HARRIS ENGLISH 80/1 RUSSELL KNOX 80/1 DANIEL SUMMERHAYS 80/1 J....

“It’s not a protest,” Kidd said before the game. “We’re not protesting. We’re showing unity. There’s not a protest.” MORE: Player protests aren’t the NFL’s biggest problem NBA players are required to stand for the national anthem, so when a team does anything extra during the anthem, many believe they are joining in on the protest started by the NFL’s Colin Kaepernick. But Kidd made it clear his team (which stood in a line with each player putting his left arm around the man next to him) was displaying unity....

Prior to Wednesday’s Game 5, Toronto right fielder Jose Bautista said Cleveland rookie starter Ryan Merritt should be “shaking in his boots” at the thought of facing the Blue Jays’ veteran lineup. Then Toronto lost and the baseball gods laughed. As did Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis. “That’s why you don’t say dumb s—,” Kipnis told reporters following the clincher. “Did he (Bautista) get a hit off him (Merritt)? He sure didn’t....

In addition to the amputated right index finger as a result of a fireworks accident, ESPN reported Pierre-Paul is missing “a portion of his thumb.” ESPN previously reported a few days ago that JPP was missing a portion of one of his other fingers on his right hand, and now we know which one. MORE: Most bizarre offseason NFL injuries | Giants’ Rashad Jennings was told not to score The first report also indicated JPP will likely miss the season with this injury....

“If I’m playing a lot of minutes, we’re not going to win the championship,” Scalabrine said. “I feel like my role would be the same on the Celtics’ (2008) championship team as it is on this team.” MORE: Brian Scalabrine’s fake 30-for-30 | Matt Bonner’s Big Red ad The Basketball Tournament is a competition between 97 teams of mostly former college stars and even ex-NBA players. Preliminary rounds are in Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles....

McFarland, from Mississippi, was living in the building while attending a local prep school to play football when the incident occurred. The lawsuit alleges that the elevator was a source of complaints among residents for years, and that the state’s Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner found that it was over a year late on safety inspections, with the last one occurring in 2019 and expired in August 2020....

That was the choice facing Jay Cutler, sources said, as he decided whether to continue his NFL playing career or move into TV with Fox Sports for the 2017 NFL season. MORE: Marvez: Cutler a massive risk for Adam Gase The ex-Bears quarterback was slated to earn between $400,000 and $450,000 this season as Fox’s No. 2 game analysts, sources tell Sporting News. When the Dolphins (and Cutler’s favorite coach, Adam Gase) came knocking with a $10 million, one-year offer, it wasn’t tough to convince Cutler to put on the pads again....

TMZ reported that Leno, an avid car collector, was working on one in his garage when it reportedly burst into flames. The late-night TV talk show icon was hospitalized after the accident in his home garage in Los Angeles, California, suffering burns on his hands and face. The former longtime host of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno told Variety that he is “OK” and needs “a week or two” to get back on his feet....

The five-star recruit showed what makes him one of the top players in the 2016 class by posterizing a Greek defender at the FIBA World Championships. MORE: Team USA standouts | USA defeats Greece | Tatum narrows list to four It wasn’t quite on the level of Vince Carter’s Olympic dunk over Frederic Weis, but maybe Tatum can work his way up to that some day.

JDT picked up their third win in the group stage of the 2018 AFC Cup but ultimately it wasn’t enough to earn them another match in this season’s competition. From being champions in 2015, this failure to get out of the group stage is by far the Southern Tigers’ worst ever campaign in the second tier Asian cup competition. Going into the match, JDT knew they had only had second place to fight for and needed a big margin victory to put them in the fight for the best second-placed team and Raul Longhi’s team selection reflected that....

In early February, Gordon pretended to be a taxi cab driver and took Jalopnik writer Travis Okulski for a wild ride as part of a fake police chase in a North Carolina industrial complex. Okulski had exposed as fake Gordon’s Pepsi Max commerical last year where Gordon supposedly took a car salesman on a crazy ride. “I had this guys’ safety in my hands,” Gordon said Friday at Phoenix International Raceway....

Gordon took the lead during the final cycle of green-flag pit stops and held off Kevin Harvick for the 89th victory of his career. Harvick held a 1.5-second lead on Gordon when the leaders started pitting for the final time under green. But Harvick ran out of fuel coming to pit road and had a slow pit stop, handing Gordon the lead when the cycle of pit stops was complete....

And considering his strength this season, he has now wiped out the deficit from a flat tire and wreck at New Hampshire in the second Chase race that resulted in a 26th-place finish. MORE: Winners & Losers: Dover drama | Kahne rallies to advance | Busch, Biffle frustrated | Stewart speaks, trying to cope Gordon, who won the race Sunday at Dover International Speedway, has been consistently strong this season....

Sunday’s Martinsville race reminds NASCAR fans of two things: Kyle Busch’s spring 2016 sweep and the notorious 2015 Matt Kenseth-Joey Logano run-in. Busch could well be the driver to beat again in the first leg of the Chase for the Sprint Cup’s Round of 8. Don’t look for another Kenseth-Logano mess. That’s not to say something crazy won’t happen. MORE: Martinsville schedule | Junior back on TV | Gibbs stragglers...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — In terms of modern-era NASCAR Hall of Fame shoe-ins, Jeff Gordon was instantly in the pole position; the No. 1 slot-in-waiting from before the time he even announced plans to retire in 2015. The four-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion and 93-race winner wasn’t only a talented driver deserving of the special recognition, he was a vital and transcendental presence in the sport. A young dirt track racer who originally figured the Indianapolis 500 would be his defining race, Gordon still earned the Indianapolis spotlight but as a record five-time Brickyard 400 winner in NASCAR’s big leagues....

In the aftermath of the incident, Jeffrey Toobin was fired by The New Yorker after working for the publication for 27 years, a decision which he described as “heartbreaking”. Having temporarily parted ways with Toobin in October last year, CNN confirmed on Thursday that it had reinstated him as its chief legal analyst and Toobin discussed the incident during an interview with Alisyn Camerota on CNN Newsroom. The network’s decision to reinstate Toobin was lambasted on social media by several journalists and political figures, mostly within the conservative sphere....

The speculation started back in November, when former adult film star Jameson, 48, called Lawless, who is set to turn 40 on February 5, “the one” in the caption of an Instagram photo that showed their tattooed arms resting together. Lawless said at the time that she was “still single as a pringle” and that Jameson, who was born Jenna Massoli, was helping her “heal” following a “brutal” breakup....

The former adult film star, 47, announced on Instagram in January that she had been diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Her partner, Lior Bitton, later revealed that she had been misdiagnosed with the rare autoimmune disorder. While Jameson has not revealed whether doctors were ever able to get to the root of her prolonged health woes, the model said that she is now “doing OK.” Sharing a video on her Instagram Story on Monday, Jameson said from her Hawaii hospital bed: “Hey guys, so I am still in the hospital....