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1. Kentucky (63)

I would be remiss if I did not mention UK’s obliteration of #8 Florida last night. They are just amazing. Almost too much talent, if that’s possible. Last week Anthony Davis averaged 7.5 blocks per game. Blocks! That’s absurd. Chad Ford has four of the team’s starters ranked in the top 30 for this year’s draft. Do you think they make fun of Doron Lamb (37th in Ford’s rankings), because he’s the only starter not expected to be drafted into the first round?

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Packing light is essential if you are traveling on an Ireland golf tour vacation. Many golf tour groups will only spend a night or 2 in a single hotel before traveling to the next golfing destination. If you over-pack you may get stressed with having to carry all the excess luggage around.

Although you need to pack lightly, you still need to take all of your essentials including golf clubs. You can rent or buy golf clubs in Ireland, but it will cost a lot more than other places. If you travel to Ireland to golf on some of the famous courses, then you might as well take any advantages you can get by golfing with your own clubs. Read more info…

St. Paul, Minn. Minnesota Hockey, the organization that governs amateur youth hockey in Minnesota, voted unanimously this weekend to adopt tougher penalties for illegal checking.

Players who engage in illegal checking or boarding will now receive a mandatory five-minute major penalty. In the past, referees could opt for a lesser, two-minute minor penalty for an illegal check. The new rule applies to all amateur youth players. The group that oversees high school hockey players recently announced a similar rule change.

The changes come in the wake of 16-year-old Jack Jablonski’s paralyzing injuries after being checked during a game in December. Jablonski, a sophomore at Benilde-St.

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Tiger Woods says he will start this season fitter than he has in at least the past eight as he prepares for the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship.

The 14-time major winner will compete at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club for the first time, choosing to play the European Tour event instead of the PGA Tour’s Farmers Insurance Open, which he has won six times.

Speaking ahead of Thursday’s start to the tournament in the United Arab Emirates, Woods said he was entering this season the fittest he has been in a while.

‘It’s been quite a few years since I’ve been physically fit,’ Woods said on Tuesday, as he prepares to ‘give it a full season’ in his bid to regain the world number one ranking.

When asked when he last felt this fit during January, Woods said: ‘I don’t know, probably eight, 10, 12 years ago.’

Woods, the world number 25, broke a two-year drought without a win when he took out the Chevron World Challenge in December last year.

A win against a strong field at Abu Dhabi could lift him into the world’s top 10, and he said the quality of opposition excited him.

‘The guys who have played here have said these wonderful things,’ Woods said, preparing to take on the likes of Luke Donald, Lee Westwood, Rory McIlroy and Martin Kaymer.

‘This is a new event for me.

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WASHINGTON – The Washington Wizards fired coach Flip Saunders on Tuesday after opening the season with a National Basketball Association-worst 2-15 record.

The Wizards, who started the season with eight consecutive losses, were trounced by the Philadelphia 76ers 103-83 on Monday, for their seventh road loss in as many tries this year.

Assistant Randy Wittman will take over on an interim basis for the remainder of the season beginning with the Wizards hosting the Charlotte Bobcats on Wednesday night.

“We felt the team had become unresponsive and we will look to Randy to provide a different voice and a change in philosophy moving forward,” Wizards President Ernie Grunfeld said in a statement.

“We were disappointed in the lack of development of our players at this point in our rebuilding plan.”

Wittman, 52, was head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers for two seasons and later directed the Minnesota Timberwolves for two-plus seasons.

He has a 100-207 record as a head coach and served as the Wizards’ lead assistant since the 2009-10 season.

“We have struggled as a team at times this season, but we have also seen a great deal of potential from our young players and glimpses of what we can accomplish together as a team,” Wittman said.

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