00:00All right, let's get started here, and yes, we start off with Augusta. Rory McIlroy takes the
00:04Masters. Looks like a foregone conclusion going into the weekend. Things did get a little bit
00:09dicey for him late, especially on 18, but he becomes the fourth golfer ever to win the Masters
00:15two times, and he wins it back-to-back for the first time since Tiger Woods did in 2001
00:20and 2002. Who did Rory McIlroy edge? Well, it was Scotty Scheffler with that late charge.
00:26Scotty finished second, and then you had a four-way tie with Cam Young, Russell Henley,
00:30Justin Rose, and Terrell Hatton, all finishing 10 under par. But naturally, after winning the
00:36Masters the first time last year, no one thought it would be possible for Rory to take the second
00:41one in a row. Here he is, accepting his green jacket and his conversation after winning.
00:47What do you think this tournament and this golf course has taught you about life?
00:56Oh, good things come to those who wait, maybe. Just keep going. You know, even, you know,
01:05I find myself in a very similar position today to where I was in the last round last year,
01:11you know, two or three behind. But I just, I played solid golf after that. You know, I was
01:19four under for an 11-hole stretch there, which, you know, is what I needed to do to give myself
01:26that cushion going up the last. And, you know, I just tried really hard to focus on myself. I thought
01:32if I could get to 14 under, I thought that everyone else would struggle to get to that score. So,
01:38that was the number I had in my head. I got to 13 on the last and, you know, had
01:42that two-shot
01:43cushion. So, I didn't quite get there. But, yeah, just keep going. Just keep, you know,
01:51keep your head down and keep going. And, you know, if you put the R's in and you work on
01:58the
01:59right things, you know, eventually it'll come good for you.
02:02Great weekend for Rory. Meanwhile, Scotty Scheffler looks like he will participate in this
02:07coming week's tournament, the RBC Heritage Open. We'll preview that coming up later in the week.
02:11Rory, of course, will take some time off. All right. Also taking some time off in the NBA. Is
02:15this the end of the coaching era for Doc Rivers, who has coached basically a third of the league
02:20at this point? He is departing as head coach of the Milwaukee Bucs, according to ESPN. 32-50 season
02:27for Milwaukee. And the Bucs are looking for their third head coach in the last three years. Doc,
02:33of course, one of the best coaches ever, probably, in the history of the NBA. Some people feel yes,
02:37some people feel no. I mean, the numbers don't lie. But I don't know. Doc coaches, again, we will
02:41have to see. All right. Let's take a look at the Eastern Conference. We've got the playoffs all set
02:45here. Of course, the play-in games are later this week. The eighth seed will take on Detroit. They're
02:49the number one. The Celtics are number two. Hawks, Knicks coming up, 6-3. Raptors, Cavs, 5-4. And in
02:56the
02:56East, the Magic will play the 76ers, 8-7. And the Miami Heat will take on the Charlotte Hornets. Out
03:01West, the eighth seed will take on Oklahoma City. The Spurs got the two. They'll await the seven.
03:06Denver takes on Minnesota. The Rockets play the Lakers. And the four play-in teams in the West
03:10are Portland, Phoenix, Golden State, and LA. The reason why the Orlando Magic are headed toward
03:15the play-in is they couldn't capitalize on the Boston Celtics basically handing them the game
03:19yesterday. Boston didn't start Tatum. They didn't start Brown. They didn't even play some of their top
03:24starters. Celtics still win. They beat the Magic 113-108. Orlando was 13.5-point favorites in this
03:32game, and they still couldn't win. Baylor Shireman had a career-high 30.7 rebounds and
03:38seven assists. Wow, what a disappointment for Jamal Mosley and his Magic as they fall to the
03:43eighth seed.
03:44Eight players available tonight. How do you explain what happened?
03:49You got to give them a ton of credit. Those eight players played hard. They played their
03:53hearts out. They played together. They moved it. They shared it. And they made a ton of shots.
03:57You know, some of that was given to them by us. He turned that ball over 19 times for 23
04:01points
04:01as part of it. Again, they had a ton of shot-making going on, and then us turning it over
04:07was a part of
04:07that big cause. I know you're still digesting this game, but what could you say about Philadelphia
04:12having to go there in the 7-8 playing game? Yeah, I mean, this is the opportunity right now,
04:16and that's all we can do. You can't control what happened in this game tonight. This one is done,
04:20and so you got to make sure you focus your time and attention and energy all on the Philadelphia
04:2576ers right now. I believe right now the Magic are just trying to get through this season.
04:30Doesn't appear they're going anywhere. Nets didn't go anywhere, and by the way, couldn't cover
04:34a 23.5-point spread last night. You kidding me? Raptors beat the Nets 136-101 in one of the
04:40biggest point spreads of the season. Scotty Barnes had 18 points, and now the Raptors
04:45have clinched the five seed in the East. Here's Darko Rykakovich on the Raptors getting a higher
04:51seed in the five than they had just a few nights ago. Boston beating Orlando that we're going to be
04:58the fifth seed. Obviously, that was not. We never set a goal of get this seed or that seed. We
05:07were
05:07just focusing on our work, focusing on things that are in our control, and, you know, the hands
05:14played out well for us this year. We won 46 games, 16 games more than last season.
05:22We saw a lot of growth from this roster, and the best part of it is that we're going to
05:28have
05:28opportunity to play in the playoffs, and, you know, as much as all of those games meant to put us
05:34in
05:34the playoffs, it's going to be an amazing experience for our team to go in the playoffs, and we're just
05:38going to take one game at a time as well. So our mentality is not going to change. We're going
05:43to
05:43try to win one game and then to win this next game and see where we end up.
05:48Good regular season for Toronto, not so much for the Miami Heat, although they did win their final
05:53game of the regular season. They beat Atlanta 143-117, so Miami is the 10 seed coming up in the
06:00play-in
06:01games. If Miami wins, they have a shot to go deep in the playoffs. If they lose, they would get
06:06the
06:0612th pick in the draft, so that's what fans are weighing right now, what is worth it for Miami at
06:11this point. We know the Heat are going to fight, and they've been a play-in team before and come
06:15out of
06:15that and done very well, so Eric Spolstra says there's some track record here to potentially go far.
06:20Yeah, I don't know. Like, it is like the NCAA tournament. It's like FIBA, you know. It's harrowing.
06:27It's nuts. You just got, you have to absolutely embrace it. It makes you feel alive, that's for
06:31sure, if you're a competitor. You don't want to have to go, like, you don't want the season to go
06:38the way, you know, it can to put you in the play-in, but once you're in it, it's exhilarating,
06:44and you have to embrace the competition, embrace how every single possession really does matter.
06:51It's a game seven, you know, and so I just want our guys to take on that challenge,
07:01you know, and do whatever is necessary, you know, to get that one. You can't think ahead of it. You
07:07can't think of, you know, two up, two down. You have to stay in the absolute present moment
07:14of every single possession.
07:16And the Heat will play the Hornets, who played very well in the second half of the season. In fact,
07:20Charlotte beat New York last night, 110 to 96. So the Hornets are the nine seed taking on Miami
07:26in that play-in. Nuggets took care of the third seed by beating the Spurs 128 to 118. Jokic had
07:3123 points. He only played 18 minutes. All right, over to Major League Baseball. A ton of sweeps this
07:36weekend in Major League Baseball, like across the board. The Mariners beat the Astros 6 to 1,
07:41so they swept behind Logan Gilbert's seven innings pitch. The A's beat the Mets 1-0. They swept New
07:47York. Nick Kurtz hit his first home run of the season. The Rays swept the Yankees 5-4 final
07:52yesterday. Drew Rasmussen, six innings pitched and seven strikeouts. Aaron Judge went one for three
07:57with a home run. He also drove in two runs as well. The Brewers were swept by the Washington
08:03Nationals. And Christian Yelich left the game with an injury. Shocking, of course, to see
08:07Washington do that. And how about Jose Soriano becoming baseball's first four-game winner of 2026?
08:13Seven innings pitched, 10 strikeouts. Right now, Soriano has been the American League's best pitcher
08:18without a doubt.
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