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Shawn Stefani has aced the 17th hole at the U.S. Open.
He’s the first golfer to make a hole-in-one at any U.S. Open at Merion, which previously hosted four. Click for video. (Photo: Andrew Redington/Getty Images)
It was a dark and stormy U.S. Open: The horn blew at 8:36 a.m. Thursday, halting play after less than 2 hours into the first round of U.S. Open. It wasn’t raining as players and spectators left the course, but soon there were thunderclaps over the Merion Golf Club, and lightning and downpours followed.
Ian Poulter held the lead with three birdies in three holes as fans scurried toward the merchandize tents to wait out the storm. Four players were at 2 under.
Safety was a concern on a course that required fans to take long shuttle rides from remote parking lots. The USGA suspended transportation from three main lots to the course, although service continued for anyone who wanted to leave Merion. (Photo: Charlie Riedel/The Associated Press)
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BETTER DAYS.
Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia at the Masters tournament in 1999. Is it dusty…in here…or something…(Photo: Elise Amendola/AP files)
Alexis Normand was given a second chance at the Memorial Cup on Tuesday night. You might remember her …troubled …rendition of the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ at the tournament on Saturday night. The video went viral and she was an overnight celebrity of sorts.
On Tuesday, she got a do-over — but she only performed the Canadian anthem. She told the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix she is not sure if she could perform the U.S. anthem again in an arena setting.
“I’d have to think about. I know I can do it, but it would be kind of a head game.”
Is this the best way to share your feelings? Yes. Yes, it is.
Philadelphia Eagles guard Evan Mathis responds to the recent IRS scandal by urinating (or fake urinating) on an IRS sign. This is how you change the world, people.
DOUBLE DUTY: U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed BOTH the Los Angeles Kings and L.A. Galaxy to celebrate their respective 2012 championship wins at the White House on Tuesday.
Dustin Penner was very excited about it.
(Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
Bill Clinton surprised the Louisville Cardinals in their locker room after Thursday night’s game. Best. Surprise. Ever.
“I mean, I think the president got swag, he got that swag to him,” Louisville’s Chane Behanan told CBS. “I don’t want to say what type of swag he got, but he got swag.
(Photo: Chane Behanan/Instagram)
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The first American to meet North Korea’s new leader says Kim Jong Un doesn’t want war with the United States. He just wants President Barack Obama to call him.
Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman says Obama and Kim share a love of basketball, so “let’s start there.”
Rodman is just back from a visit to North Korea with the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team and spent two days with Kim.
The State Department on Friday distanced itself from Rodman’s visit. (Photo: Lorenzo Bevilacqua/ABC Television/The Associated Press)
OOPS. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hit a spectator while playing at Pebble Beach on Thursday.
“Somebody asked me, ’How did it compare to diplomacy?”’ Rice said while walking off the 18th green. “And I said, ’Well, I know how to do diplomacy, I’m not so sure about the golf course.” (Photo: Scott Halleran/Getty Images)
Singer Jennifer Hudson performs “America The Beautiful” with the Sandy Hook Elementary School Chorus prior to the start of Super Bowl XLVII between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
